Any way to get the name or IP of the Echo device?

originallyus / node-red-contrib-alexa-local

An easy-to-use NodeRED node for adding Alexa capability to NodeRED. NO Alexa Skills required.

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Any way to get the name or IP of the Echo device? #96

Open amera64 opened 5 years ago

amera64 commented 5 years ago

I see there is a value in the message object for "from:" but the IP address is always the same no matter witch Echo device I speak to. A name or IP address would be handy when using the Alexa-speak node to direct the speech output to the device that was spoken to.

justingriffiths909 commented 5 years ago

Agreed. I thought this would solve all my issues and i could use one flow and differentiate by source echo (IP Address). Is it a bug or a limitation on which device first uses the device?

smoofus commented 4 years ago

Getting the echo device name, serial, IP, etc... would be a game changer. It really is the missing link for room based flows. I just want to be able to say "Turn on the TV" and have the TV in the room with the echo that received the command turn on. +1

devzeb commented 4 years ago

There is a fork of this repository in which the ip adress is available: https://github.com/mabunixda/node-red-contrib-alexa-home (Gen 3 detection also works with a workaround) (: