2 minutes ago, itimpi said:

I actually went for the $10/per year option which allows for 2 servers as I have music and audiobooks set up as separate servers (via 2 instances of the docker running on Unraid).   I actually got the MyMediaForAlexa people to add a few features to make running multiple servers more user friendly.   

I'm going to contact them as I've found I can't play my favourite album "Ten" by Pearl Jam, instead it plays the album "Ten" by The Stranglers, which I also enjoy listening to.....

 

Going to see if they can add "Ask my media to play the album ${ALBUM} by ${ARTIST}"

1 minute ago, CHBMB said:

I'm going to contact them as I've found I can't play my favourite album "Ten" by Pearl Jam, instead it plays the album "Ten" by The Stranglers, which I also enjoy listening to.....

 

Going to see if they can add "Ask my media to play the album ${ALBUM} by ${ARTIST}"

Please do so.    I have been asking for a similar facility for audiobooks (I.e. read book ‘’x’ by ‘y’ as it is not unusual for different authors to have used the same title.   It can be difficult in such a case to get the particular audiobook I want to play.    If in doubt I want the artist/author field to have higher priority than the album/book in such a request.   At the programming level a ‘book’ should be equivalent to an ‘album’ and an ‘artist’ should be equivalent to an ‘author’ so I think they are two different manifestations of the same requirement.

 

The alternative would be for some way of selecting an artist/author, and then drilling down to the albums/books that are available

4 hours ago, CHBMB said:

Going to see if they can add "Ask my media to play the album ${ALBUM} by ${ARTIST}"

Works for me.  "Ask my media to play the album Dark Side Of The Moon"

My real complaint though (and it's a general alexa problem) is that you can't include any activity within a task.  It sucks not having being able to have Alexa set an alarm and have it play a tune from MyMedia

Works for me.  "Ask my media to play the album Dark Side Of The Moon"

How many albums called Dark Side Of The Moon do you have?

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How many albums called Dark Side Of The Moon do you have?

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Your other option is to do a playlist and ask mymedia to play x playlist

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Does anyone know if it's possible, and if so what voice commands to use, to get mymedia to play through Sonos? I have Sonos set up so it is the preferred speaker so, for example, if I want to play radio in my kitchen I say:

"Alexa, play Radio Paradise in Kitchen", or "Alexa, ask Tune In Radio to play Talk Sport in Kitchen" and Alexa will then direct the sound through my Sonos, rather than through her internal speaker.

 

If I say "Alexa, ask My Media to play <album name> in Kitchen" then she plays through her internal speaker (which is a first generation Echo dot so sounds like a bee in a  biscuit tin). I've tried other possible combinations but it never works. It's frustrating, and means I can't access my music in several rooms of my house (basically wherever we have Sonos) but only in rooms where I have a decent Echo speaker setup.

 

Any ideas? Has anyone else got this working?

Since this sounds like a generic issue with MyMediaForAlexa or an issue within Alexa itself and  is not UnRAID specific it might be worth asking the MyMedia support people directly about this.   You could also try the MyMedia forums on their site.  I cannot comment myself as I do not have a system set up in that manner.
 

if you get a response from MyMedia support it would be of interest to hear what it is

Edited November 3, 20196 yr by itimpi

1 hour ago, itimpi said:

Since this sounds like a generic issue with MyMediaForAlexa or an issue within Alexa itself and  is not UnRAID specific it might be worth asking the MyMedia support people directly about this.   You could also try the MyMedia forums on their site.  I cannot comment myself as I do not have a system set up in that manner.
 

if you get a response from MyMedia support it would be of interest to hear what it is

Thanks, I couldn't find the forum on their site - obviously not looking hard enough - but I'll email them and I'll report back here what I find out.

10 minutes ago, be4con said:

Thanks, I couldn't find the forum on their site - obviously not looking hard enough - but I'll email them and I'll report back here what I find out.

FYI:  The link to their forum is under the Help menu item on the site.

Aloha *.*'s,

I am sorry, but I can't get this off the Ground.

I installed the Container and got the Alexa-Skill. I can access the WebGUI and paired it with my Amazon-Account BUT I can see in the WebGUI that my watchfolder is "queued", and on the Servers page there is no Server. Furthermore in the upper left of the WebGUI I can see my correct Email-Addres, but directly below a "not connected".

What I am doing wrong? Any Ideas?

MyMediaForAlexa.log2022-15-21-011514.zip

Not quite sure what might be going wrong - for me it “just works”.    Maybe post a screenshot of the docker settings you are using for the container.   You should be able to get the server component working regardless of whether the Alexa skill is installed.  

Here are the Screenshots. I've only added the PUID, PGID and TZ manually for troubleshooting.

Edited September 22, 20223 yr by Moppen

Same as you. Does somebody have a fix?

 

Thanks in advance

 

On 9/21/2022 at 1:21 PM, Moppen said:

Aloha *.*'s,

I am sorry, but I can't get this off the Ground.

I installed the Container and got the Alexa-Skill. I can access the WebGUI and paired it with my Amazon-Account BUT I can see in the WebGUI that my watchfolder is "queued", and on the Servers page there is no Server. Furthermore in the upper left of the WebGUI I can see my correct Email-Addres, but directly below a "not connected".

What I am doing wrong? Any Ideas?

MyMediaForAlexa.log2022-15-21-011514.zipUnavailable

 

Not sure what is going wrong for you, but you should be able to get the server side running irrespective of whether you actually have the Alexa skill installed on a echo device.   In particular you should be able to get the server to show up in the Servers page.

 

You can try asking on the MyMediaForAlexa site to see if they have any suggestions.   The docker container is exactly the same one that is deployed on other platforms - the only Unraid specific part is the creation of the template that provides the parameters that would otherwise to be provided via a docker run command.

On 9/22/2022 at 5:00 AM, Moppen said:

Here are the Screenshots. I've only added the PUID, PGID and TZ manually for troubleshooting.

It looks as though the docker instance is not connected to your Amazon account   Have you tried unpairing to disconnect from your Amazon account and then repairing to link the server to your Amazon account?   This should clear the Not Connected status shown in your screenshot.

Last few days the docker keeps stopping, and despite autostart being set it doesn't start on a reboot. I've forced an update, and also updated unraid, but the issue remains.

 

Any suggestions? Thanks

On 6/19/2023 at 5:51 PM, be4con said:

Last few days the docker keeps stopping, and despite autostart being set it doesn't start on a reboot. I've forced an update, and also updated unraid, but the issue remains.

 

Any suggestions? Thanks

I've tried everything now, including a full uninstall and deleting the image and my appdata folder, but when I reinstalled the docker I have the same issue. Can anyone help?

 

Not seeing this problem with the docker on my system.

 

Does it run if you manually start it (is the problem only with autostart).

 

What version of Unraid are you running?  Have you recently upgraded to the latest 6.12 version?

Thanks, yes it runs when I start it manually but then it randomly stops again after a variable period of time - usually after an hour or two.

 

I am on 6.12, yes. Do you think it's worth rolling back?

Getting nowhere with MyMedia support they are ignoring my ticket requests. 

 

Can anyone help at all?

I’m on 6.12.2 with no problems.

 

However, as no-one else has come up with any suggestions, it may be worth trying to roll back to 6.11.x if it is easy for you to do, if only to show whether or not the problem is specific to the 6.12 release.

However from your original description I think you suggested that the problems were occurring even before you updated to 6.12, in which case there would be little point rolling back.

 

I know how frustrated I would be if it was failing for no apparent reason on my system.

 

The only other thing I could suggest is maybe try setting it up with a small library with only a few items in it, in case it is something in the media library causing it to fail (although I cannot really see how this could cause the whole docker to fail), if only to rule this out as the cause.

Thanks - I think I'm going to have to try rolling back. Unfortunately, I have also done the 6.12.2 upgrade so I can't just rollback within Unraid.

 

I'll also do as you suggested and try with a small library. Thanks.

I am also running into the the issue as @Moppen

Response status code does not indicate success: 500 (Internal Server Error)

during pairing.

Any idea why this is happening? 
UI says "not connected" and folders are stuck on "queued"

EDIT: completely unlinking the skill from the alexa app and relinking fixed this problem
EDIT 2: apparently everything that this tool can do, Plex can do as well
Unfortunately both announce what they are going to play "Ok, playing xxx by yyyyy from the album zzzzz
Which is not really an option for me

Edited September 19, 20232 yr by Maertuerer

I added the sample media and one folder with music to help my kids sleep. The watched folder never got past queued. Installed Alexa on my phone, yuck. Got the skill, linked to my account. Would not work on my phone. Found out it will not work on echo dot's if kids mode is enabled. Checked out dev's forum and the last post I could find from them was in 2018. With forum users asking if the project is dead and no response. I question why this is doing so well on Unraid's app store.