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Alexa skill for controlling Kodi
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Activate a Kodi mode to avoid saying the activation phrase to each command #268

Closed bisca330 closed 6 years ago

bisca330 commented 6 years ago

Hello,

I am a french who discovers Alexa with the arrival of the game Echo in France. I have been using Kodi for a long time and I find your project very interesting. I will also try to put it up soon at home.

Here is my request: Would it be possible to let the Kodi mode activate to avoid saying the activation phrase to each command. For example the activation phrase could be: "Alexa, kodi mode enabled". Then we can pass the voice commands the time of the use of Kodi without mentioning the activation phrase and we could end the use of Kodi with for example: "Alexa, Kodi mode disabled".

I know it's possible with the Jarvis voice assistant (https://www.openjarvis.com/plugins/kodi), but can we do it with Alexa?

Regards,

Micky

jingai commented 6 years ago

It does do this automatically after receiving certain commands:

PlayerMove(Up|Down|Left|Right)
PlayerRotate(Counter)?Clockwise
PlayerZoom(Hold|Reset)
PlayerZoom(In|Out)(MoveUp|MoveDown|MoveLeft|MoveRight)?
Menu
Home
Select
Page(Up|Down)
Left
Right
Up
Down
Back
View(Movies|Shows|MusicVideos|Music|Artists|Albums)
View(Audio|Video)?Playlist(Recent)?
Shutdown
Hibernate
Suspend
EjectMedia
AddonGlobalSearch
WhatNew(Albums|Movies|Shows|Episodes|Albums)
Help

And maybe some I missed.. basically, most all of the navigation-type Intents will leave the session open.

You can also initiate a session by just asking Alexa, open Kodi

jingai commented 6 years ago

More simply stated, any Intent that initiates playback of media will close the session. This is by design, as we found that Alexa would falsely respond to the audio from the media being played back, resulting in unexpected actions taken.

bisca330 commented 6 years ago

Thank you for your answers.

I think I understood, but to be certain it means that as soon as I start playing an audio or video file the session will be closed. But as long as I do not run any media I can navigate in kodi without pronouncing the activation phrase before each voice command.

Did I understand well ?

Micky

jingai commented 6 years ago

Yes, the session will be closed if you initiate media playback via the skill.

jingai commented 6 years ago

If you're satisfied with this answer, please close this issue :)