Soldato
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Mine seems to be getting gradually worse at recognising my voice.. Anyone else experiencing this?
Amazon Echo - anyone have one?
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You need to specify the Plex media player as the dot
Spam -
Set the Plex Player
The last step to preparing the Plex integration with the Alexa Voice Service is to set the default Plex player. Say:
- Ask Plex to change my player
You also need to be logged into the admin account
Not according to Plex -
Tip!: If you're playing music/audio and do not specify another Plex app as the player, playback will occur on the Alexa device (e.g. the Echo).
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I don't even have a Spotify account. It hasn't done it for a while though.
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Hah, yeah, it worked well for my girlfriend but it wound me up that it wouldn't shut up.
I didn't have to do any of that. I just turned my HTPC off and asked it to play some music from Plex and it came out of the Dot speaker instead of controlling the HTPC.
Man, these little things are so good! I know the sound quality doesn't stand up to a Sonos One, but to me they sound pretty damn good and given that I've got three Amazon Echo's for £40 less than a Sonos One, and each one is linked via the Multi-Room option within the Alexa app, the value is just too good. I can listen to any of my music or any radio station from TuneIn across all three rooms if I want to, just by telling them to play "Downstairs" or wherever I've set the group up. I wish I'd have purchased an Echo sooner! I used to play music through a Klipsch docking station, but couldn't use it after Apple decided to change the plug type on the newer iPhones, so I've not had any music around the house for a while. These little Echo's have sorted that so nicely.
Eventually I'll add an Echo Plus for the smart home automation, or I might just use a bridge, but for now, I'm really happy that three Echo's cost me less than £160 and they all link together. One thing that has disappointed me is that you can't setup an option to put the radio on as part of a routine. I've set up a "morning" routine, and all it lets you do is go through the news, traffic news, and then weather. Hopefully the ability to start the radio up will be added in an update.
Oh, and I set up the third speaker last night, and right after setup I asked it to play a song that has quite a lot of full-on bass by Tremonti, and it sounded a bit tinny and flat. I then stopped the playback, muted the Echo and it downloaded the latest update and applied that. As soon as it was done, I played the same song and the sound quality had been improved vastly. It's crazy that a firmware update can actually do that! You just have to love where modern technology is at these days!
On the subject of a bridge, can you build one out of a Raspberry Pi at all? I have a first generation Pi at home that isn't used for anything now. If I could use Zigbee on that, it would be absolutely awesome!
Eventually I'll add an Echo Plus for the smart home automation, or I might just use a bridge, but for now, I'm really happy that three Echo's cost me less than £160 and they all link together. One thing that has disappointed me is that you can't setup an option to put the radio on as part of a routine. I've set up a "morning" routine, and all it lets you do is go through the news, traffic news, and then weather. Hopefully the ability to start the radio up will be added in an update.
Oh, and I set up the third speaker last night, and right after setup I asked it to play a song that has quite a lot of full-on bass by Tremonti, and it sounded a bit tinny and flat. I then stopped the playback, muted the Echo and it downloaded the latest update and applied that. As soon as it was done, I played the same song and the sound quality had been improved vastly. It's crazy that a firmware update can actually do that! You just have to love where modern technology is at these days!
On the subject of a bridge, can you build one out of a Raspberry Pi at all? I have a first generation Pi at home that isn't used for anything now. If I could use Zigbee on that, it would be absolutely awesome!
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I'd just come on to ask if anyone had a work around for this. It's the one feature I'd really like but couldn't seem to do.
Just got a Dot for the living room and the sound it's surprisingly decent.
However, partner would like music in the kitchen so the obvious solution to this is to get a Bluetooth speaker, pair it with the Dot and have the speaker in the kitchen.
But then the speaker on the Dot itself wouldn't work, would it?
We'd like to keep the dot in the living room and have it Bluetooth music into the kitchen.
It seems a bit of a pain to have to manually connect/disconnect the Bluetooth speaker when we are cooking and want sound in the kitchen. When the rest of the time the dot speaker is just fine for in the living room
However, partner would like music in the kitchen so the obvious solution to this is to get a Bluetooth speaker, pair it with the Dot and have the speaker in the kitchen.
But then the speaker on the Dot itself wouldn't work, would it?
We'd like to keep the dot in the living room and have it Bluetooth music into the kitchen.
It seems a bit of a pain to have to manually connect/disconnect the Bluetooth speaker when we are cooking and want sound in the kitchen. When the rest of the time the dot speaker is just fine for in the living room
Plex thread seems to have found the cause and it is UPnP
If UPNP is on then I show as being accessible from outside the network but Plex doesn't play on the Echo, but everything else I need to access remotely works perfectly. If I turn off UPNP then Plex says it is not accessible from outside the network, but plays on the echo. I can also access plex from
https://app.plex.tv/desktop - both inside and outside my home
https://FQDN:32400 - both inside and outside my network
Oddly all my other remote access stuff also still works.
I say odd as I am on a Sky Q hub and there is no NAT/PAT section that I can find - which I obviously found 5 seconds after writing this sentence and found I had set it up!
Others with the same issue have also said it is resolved by turning off UPnP.
Does it not make more sense to just get another echo?
I didn't know I did either, it must have been on by default as I wouldn't have turned it on, especially considering I did setup proper port forwarding rules for my NAS and server. It was only them saying it was being caused by UPnP that made me look at my router closer and discover it was on.
Failing that
Alexa connect my speaker or Alexa disconnect my speaker doesnt take long to say.
Got an Echo last week, I actually quite like it but I find the sound quality pretty terrible. I've got a soundblaster roar 2 Bluetooth speaker which I find far more impressive for its size.
I do quite like the voice stuff. Although it still kinda freaks me out. Tin foil hat time!
I do quite like the voice stuff. Although it still kinda freaks me out. Tin foil hat time!
Recently gotten 2 echo dots to use with our Sonos speakers which so far has worked well for well known artists, but anything slightly foreign sounding or (swedish death metal bands in this example) Alexa really struggles to understand.
"Alexa play Amon Amarth - death in fire" - sorry, I cannot find A man amarath deaf in the fire
Google home on the other hand seems much better equipped at even the most niche bands.
"Alexa play Amon Amarth - death in fire" - sorry, I cannot find A man amarath deaf in the fire
Google home on the other hand seems much better equipped at even the most niche bands.
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I didn't know that!