Vera PushOver notification with image

[Pabla]

@librasun For the last command have you tried using the Sonos service ID instead? I find it odd how some commands work and some dont

[LibraSun]

Yep, tried that. Changed GroupZones= to "Sonos Beam" (name of my Alexa-enabled Sonos device also known as "Living Room"), and still... silence.
But thanks for the tip to try!

Oh wait! You're saying try piping the command to the SONOS service instead of the 'bochicchio' one... hold on... gonna try.

Answer: NOPE. Still same "Sorry, I'm having trouble accessing ___ skill right now."

[Pabla]

@librasun I will try to get logged in later today to try these commands and see if I can reproduce these issues

[CatmanV2]

@librasun said in Vera Alexa Plugin 7.32:

Fun times. I took my own advice and completely removed VeraAlexa plug-in from my Vera Plus (making sure there were no hidden devices lurking, then executing a device > remove command via HTTP request in my browser). Rebooted, restarted MSR (so it would forget about deleted Entity), copied ZIP from Github, loaded files onto Vera, restarted Luup engine, created Device (it starts hidden!), restarted Luup engine again, see device in UI (no name), restart Luup yet again, see "Alexa" device, says "Configured=1" (yay!), update its "DefaultEcho" variable, etc., restart MSR in Docker, hard refresh all browsers.

And I'm back. Now HERE is the fun part... SOME of the "Say" commands work now, some ALMOST do, and others still do not.

WORKS // says "Hello from Vera Alexa"

luup.call_action("urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:Sonos1", "Say", {Text="Hello from Vera Alexa"}, 345)

ALMOST WORKS // says "Domain" and stops

luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","Say", {Text='<amazon:domain name="conversational">Hello from Alexa</amazon:domain>',   Volume=10, Repeat = 1}, 345)

DOES NOT WORK // says "Sorry..." error message

luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","Say", {Text='<voice name="Raveena">Hello from Vera Alexa</voice>', Volume=40,GroupZones="Living Room"}, 345)

I must be a bad person.
I forgot entirely about the default echo. Mine was 3 floors away this morning.

I don't have a Sonos so can't test that bit but

luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","Say", {Text='<amazon:domain name="conversational">Hello from Alexa</amazon:domain>', Volume=10, Repeat = 1}, 22)

Works

luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","Say", {Text='<voice name="Raveena">Hello from Vera Alexa</voice>', Volume=40}, 22)

Works.

I am not on Vera though. Openluup with full JQ AFAIK

C

[LibraSun]

Perhaps my never having used OpenLuup, that could be the key differentiator between my setup and yours and @therealdb 's?
I'm on a stock Vera Plus running 7.32 firmware. I'm sending all Lua commands via MSR for testing purposes.

[Pabla]

@librasun alright just logged in and tried these and Libra you’re not going crazy.... I am having the exact same responses about the Simon says skill

[Elcid]

@librasun Have you tried to install JQuery on the vera, it's is now available with 7.32

[LibraSun]

@elcid said in Vera Alexa Plugin 7.32:

@librasun Have you tried to install JQuery on the vera, it's is now available with 7.32

Uh oh, I thought "jq" was a package included with 7.32? I'd scoured @therealdb 's notes and ReadMe, seeing references to "jq" (never once thinking that meant "JQuery").

How does one "install" "jQuery" on Vera??

[Elcid]

ssh in and run
opkg update
opkg install jq

[therealdb]

@librasun The plug-in will take care of it. So, just set configured to 0 and it will install it.

I've had a very busy week, but tomorrow I'll have more time to re-try from scratch. Keep in mind that this is using some internal amazon stuff and the chances that they changed something is high. Anyway, it should not create <s>... unless you have announcements enabled. I'll take a deeper look tomorrow. I've tested with 7.32 beta, but not this build, and it worked, but I've not tested all the possibile variants.

[Pabla]

Also if anyone in the future has Cookie issues, you must turn of JavaScript in Firefox to get the correct cookie file, I didn't and it wasn't working.

[LibraSun]

@pabla said in Vera Alexa Plugin 7.32:

Also if anyone in the future has Cookie issues, you must turn of JavaScript in Firefox to get the correct cookie file, I didn't and it wasn't working.

Does this apply to Chrome as well? And if so, do you mean "Disable Javascript" for all sites, forever? Or just while VeraAlexa plug-in is configuring itself?

(Because I did none of that.

[Pabla]

@librasun I am not sure if it applies to chrome but I assume it would, because when you disable JavaScript and login you get the Captcha login screen (which is what you are trying to bypass).

Yes temporarily disable JavaScript until you have got the cookie file.

[Elcid]

@pabla I never turn off JS, I use Export Cookies Addon to export to a txt file. I will add i do it on Android Firefox I login to layala.amazon.co.uk. Once logged in i export amazon.co.uk to text file. I then copy the contents to .alexa.cookie

[Pabla]

@elcid I never used to have to turn off JavaScript in the past, but I had to this time around which was odd.

[LibraSun]

@pabla said in Vera Alexa Plugin 7.32:

Yes temporarily disable JavaScript until you have got the cookie file.

Perhaps wise advice, but I'm gonna sit on my hands for now if only because the .alexa.cookie file manifested without any fuss when I first installed the plug-in. I took that as a sign that all is well.

Unless advised otherwise and/or someone explains how to examine the cookie file to know I got the "wrong" one?

[Pabla]

@librasun if you get the Captcha error in the LatestResponse variable then you'll need to manually grab the file. In your case though, seems that you didn't get a captcha error when you first logged in.

[LibraSun]

I thought it might interest you guys to know that Twilio would charge me between $0.0008 and $0.0032 per 100 characters to generate synthesized speech (TTS) using Amazon's SSML voice API. However, that interface is intended for phone calls (which I've used in the past for automated responses and such).

Guess we should be grateful that it's possible to get the same results for free via Vera/Alexa.

[CatmanV2]

Thoughts on sound effects folks?

luup.call_action("urn:bochicchio-com:serviceId:VeraAlexa1","RunCommand",{Command="-e sound:amzn_sfx_trumpet_bugle_04",Volume=49, GroupZones="Living Room dot"}, 22)

Works fine but
sound:amzn_sfx_trumpet_bugle_04

Bears no resemblance to the file library names listed here:

Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library | Alexa Skills Kit

Use the sound effects in the Alexa Skills Kit Sound Library in your Alexa skill.

What do I need to do to make something like:

soundbank://soundlibrary/air/fire_extinguisher/fire_extinguisher_08

Work?

TIA

C

[LibraSun]

The filename I see listed at the link you shared is amzn_sfx_trumpet_bugle_04 which appears to match.
Not sure what you're calling "different"?

I notice that the other sound effect you hunted for appears to be <audio src="soundbank://soundlibrary/air/fire_extinguisher/fire_extinguisher_08"/> which I take to mean "fire_extinguisher_08" gets substituted in place of the bugle reference in your Lua command.