[WiP] Speech Recognition for MP2 (1 Viewer)

[offbyone]

That's unfortunate to hear. Did you save the MediaPortal log file by any chance?

 

[ge2301]

That's unfortunate to hear. Did you save the MediaPortal log file by any chance?

Where does MP1 store it? I can upload here when I found it.

 

[offbyone]

c:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\MediaPortal.log

 

[ge2301]

Here you are, hopefully it helps.

 

[offbyone]

The Network-Connection from MediaPortal was working. But Amazon logs show that the account was not linked yet from MediaPortal Config?

The correct steps to get it working are:
1. Configure the plugin in MediaPortal and login with your Amazon account from MP Config.
2. Run MediaPortal and keep it running for the next step - important so device discovery from Alexa will find it - think of it like a light bulb that needs power to be discovered...
3. Activate the skill in Alexa App and let it find devices - after that you should see MediaPortal as TV in the Alexa App.

You can tell Alexa to Find Devices again if it fails the first time.

For testing I always Play a Movie and Say "Alexa Pause on MediaPortal".

 

[ge2301]

The Network-Connection from MediaPortal was working. But Amazon logs show that the account was not linked yet from MediaPortal Config?

The correct steps to get it working are:
1. Configure the plugin in MediaPortal and login with your Amazon account from MP Config.
2. Run MediaPortal and keep it running for the next step - important so device discovery from Alexa will find it - think of it like a light bulb that needs power to be discovered...
3. Activate the skill in Alexa App and let it find devices - after that you should see MediaPortal as TV in the Alexa App.

You can tell Alexa to Find Devices again if it fails the first time.

For testing I always Play a Movie and Say "Alexa Pause on MediaPortal".

Ok, thanks. Following these steps it is working finally. Once I activated the Alexa Skill in Firefox it was searching for devices to connect and I saw my home list and "this device", not "MediaPortal". I selected it, and my Alexa App then shows "MediaPortal" with the TV symbol as you mentioned.
I quickly tried following:
"Alexa, PAUSE on MediaPortal" -> Works, playback paused (prior playback running)
"Alexa, STOP on MediaPortal" -> Works, playback paused (prior playback running)
"Alexa, PLAY on MediaPortal" -> Does not work "I don't know this" (prior playback paused)
"Alexa, PLAY on MediaPortal" -> Does not work "I don't know this" (Focus on media item)

Would be really great, if we could bring something this to MP2 aswell, MP1 is not usable for me
Is the skill limited to these playback features or theoretically could be extended?

Edit:
I found at least following, so seems to offer further potential.

The Video Skill API exposes a variety of functionality including:

• Searching and playing content
• Playback controls, such as pause and rewind
• Adjusting the volume
• Turning a video device on or off
• Changing the video device input
• Launching an app or GUI shortcut
• Recording video content
• Channel navigation
• Video catalog ingestion

 

[ge2301]

@offbyone
any comment/opinion to my questions in this thread?

 

[Timhoh1234]

@offbyone I still don't find the plugin in download section and the skill describes only MP1.
Is it not fully compatible with MP2 yet?