alexa_media_player: Connection Error! (Errno -2) Name does not resolve
I wanted to reinstall Alexa Media Player because I was having problems. Unfortunately it won’t install anymore, I always get the error below. I have not changed anything on my system. Can anyone help?
System details
- Home-assistant (version): 2023.04.1
- alexa_media (version from
const.pyor HA startup): 4.6.2 - Amazon 2FA is enabled (y/n).: yes
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created a year ago
- Comments: 15 (2 by maintainers)
Same Problem over here since today… out of nowhere. Everything was workong well since a few hours ago.
Connection Error! Please try refreshing. If this persists, please report this error to here: [Errno -2] Name does not resolve
Didn’t update anything
EDIT: this solved it:
I had some difficulty adding the Alexa integration (v4.3.2) in HA 2022.11.05. I followed the steps and got as far as entering the one time code and being taken to the Alexa website sign-in screen. But when tried to log in I got an error: cannot connect to host name … does not resolve home assistant.
Here is what worked for me.
In HA, open Terminal (add-on)
From command line enter this command: ha dns options --servers dns://8.8.8.8
Then enter this command: ha dns restart
After doing this, I tried again to integrate Alexa Media Player and was able to make it all the way. Hope this helps someone.
credits to
not a clean solution at all but i’ll be able to see what breaks now. Maybe the author can adjust this in the next release.
You can compare the code and submit a PR if you can find what we changed that would impact the dns. Happy for any help. https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/compare/v4.5.3...v4.6.2 https://gitlab.com/keatontaylor/alexapy/-/compare/v1.26.4...v1.26.5?from_project_id=7993293&straight=false