alexa_media_player: TTS Stopped Working

Describe the bug After upgrading to 2022.7 TTS stopped working. Subsequent updates have not resolved the issue. I have uninstalled and reinstalled alexa media player with no difference. Setting the type to notify does work.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: 2 Methods

Go to ‘developer tools’
Click on ‘services’
fill in the relevant information
click call service

service: notify.alexa_media_office_echo
data:
  message: Test Test
  data:
    type: tts

service: notify.alexa_media_office_echo
data:
  message: Test Test
  data:
    type: tts

Second Method

create an automation to send a tts message after a button press from a zigby button

Screenshots Method 1

Method 2

System details

Home-assistant (version): core-2022.7.7
Hassio (Yes/No): Yes
alexa_media (version from const.py or HA startup): 4.1.0
alexapy (version from pip show alexapy or HA startup): 1.26.1
Amazon 2FA is enabled (y/n). We will not debug login issues if unanswered: Yes

Logs 2022-08-04 19:38:00 INFO (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] Loaded alexapy==1.26.1 2022-08-04 19:38:00 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.helpers] [SANATIZED]: Returning uuid {‘uuid’: ‘[SANATIZED]’, ‘index’: 0} 2022-08-04 19:38:00 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Creating TOTP for H************************************************N7A 2022-08-04 19:38:00 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Generating OTP 076257 2022-08-04 19:38:00 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Login created for [SANATIZED] - amazon.com 2022-08-04 19:38:00 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Searching for cookies from /config/.storage/alexa_media.[SANATIZED].pickle 2022-08-04 19:38:00 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Trying to load cookie from file /config/.storage/alexa_media.[SANATIZED].pickle 2022-08-04 19:38:01 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Trying to load aiohttpCookieJar to session 2022-08-04 19:38:01 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Loaded 9 cookies 2022-08-04 19:38:01 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Searching for cookies from /config/alexa_media.[SANATIZED].pickle 2022-08-04 19:38:01 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Using cookies to log in 2022-08-04 19:38:01 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Attempting to register with amazon.com 2022-08-04 19:38:11 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] auth response <ClientResponse(https://api.amazon.com/auth/register) [200 OK]> <CIMultiDictProxy(‘Server’: ‘Server’, ‘Date’: ‘Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:38:10 GMT’, ‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json;charset=UTF-8’, ‘Content-Length’: ‘5604’, ‘Connection’: ‘keep-alive’, ‘x-amz-rid’: ‘GJH4AWTCJYSC5Q23ZJDV’, ‘x-amzn-RequestId’: ‘d489bfe9-5b24-4f97-9103-981b6b8880fb’, ‘X-Amz-Date’: ‘Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:38:10 GMT’, ‘Cache-Control’: ‘no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate’, ‘Pragma’: ‘no-cache’, ‘Vary’: ‘Content-Type,Accept-Encoding,X-Amzn-CDN-Cache,X-Amzn-AX-Treatment,User-Agent’, ‘Permissions-Policy’: ‘interest-cohort=()’)> with {“requested_extensions”: [“device_info”, “customer_info”], “cookies”: {“website_cookies”: [SANATIZED] 2022-08-04 19:38:11 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Successfully registered Erik’s 2nd Alexa Media Player device with Amazon 2022-08-04 19:38:11 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] New access token received which expires at 2022-08-04 20:38:11.610162 in 0:59:59.999675 2022-08-04 19:38:15 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] 5 cookies successfully exchanged for refresh token for domain .amazon.com 2022-08-04 19:38:15 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] CSRF already exists; no need to discover 2022-08-04 19:38:17 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] GET: https://alexa.amazon.com/api/bootstrap returned 200:OK with response <CIMultiDictProxy(‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’, ‘Content-Length’: ‘145’, ‘Connection’: ‘keep-alive’, ‘Server’: ‘Server’, ‘Date’: ‘Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:38:16 GMT’, ‘x-amz-rid’: ‘66NH139QJAM8Q4CFVDFQ’, ‘x-amzn-RequestId’: ‘0635ff7f-07f0-4dcc-ad54-70a8bc9b7e5d’, ‘Content-Encoding’: ‘gzip’, ‘Vary’: ‘Content-Type,Accept-Encoding,X-Amzn-CDN-Cache,X-Amzn-AX-Treatment,User-Agent’, ‘Permissions-Policy’: ‘interest-cohort=()’, ‘X-Cache’: ‘Miss from cloudfront’, ‘Via’: ‘1.1 648a9cc121d040a230a7c3a6982dca90.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)’, ‘X-Amz-Cf-Pop’: ‘DFW50-C1’, ‘X-Amz-Cf-Id’: ‘MrgSvX96VuiDTfARUcN9ZQPxOV84_r9VCC-bIIcvRWbK9Q5AJBHgdQ==’)> 2022-08-04 19:38:17 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Logged in as [SANATIZED] to amazon.com with id: [SANATIZED] 2022-08-04 19:38:18 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Domain amazon.com matches reported account domain: https://www.amazon.com 2022-08-04 19:38:18 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexalogin] Login confirmed for [SANATIZED] - amazon.com; saving cookie to /config/.storage/alexa_media.[SANATIZED].pickle 2022-08-04 19:38:18 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] Testing login status: {‘login_successful’: True} 2022-08-04 19:38:18 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] Setting up Alexa devices for [SANATIZED] 2022-08-04 19:38:18 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] [SANATIZED]: Websocket created: <alexapy.alexawebsocket.WebsocketEchoClient object at 0x7f7258a380> 2022-08-04 19:38:18 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] Connecting to wss://dp-gw-na-js.amazon.com/tcomm/ with {‘Cookie’: [SANATIZED] 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] [SANATIZED]: Websocket successfully connected 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] [SANATIZED]: Creating coordinator 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] [SANATIZED]: Refreshing coordinator 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] Starting message parsing loop. 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] Received raw WebSocket: b’0x37a1b607 0x0000009c {“protocolName”:“A:F”,“parameters”:{“AlphaProtocolHandler.maxFragmentSize”:“16000”,“AlphaProtocolHandler.receiveWindowSize”:“16”}}TUNE’ 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] Encoding WebSocket Handshake MSG. 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] 0xfe88bc52 0x0000009c {“protocolName”:“A:F”,“parameters”:{“AlphaProtocolHandler.receiveWindowSize”:“16”,“AlphaProtocolHandler.maxFragmentSize”:“16000”}}TUNE 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] A:F Initialization Msg 2 sent: 307866653838626335322030783030303030303963207b2270726f746f636f6c4e616d65223a22413a46222c22706172616d6574657273223a7b22416c70686150726f746f636f6c48616e646c65722e7265636569766557696e646f7753697a65223a223136222c22416c70686150726f746f636f6c48616e646c65722e6d6178467261676d656e7453697a65223a223136303030227d7d54554e45 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] Encoding Gateway Register MSG. 2022-08-04 19:38:19 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexawebsocket] bytearray(b’MSG\x00\x00\x03b\x10i.\xb4f\x00\x00\x00\x01\xcd5\xd5\x7f\x00\x00\x00\xe4GWM MSG 0x0000b479 0x0000003b urn:tcomm-endpoint:device:deviceType:0:deviceSerialNumber:0 0x00000041 urn:tcomm-endpoint:service:serviceName:DeeWebsiteMessagingService {“command”:“REGISTER_CONNECTION”}FABE’) <trimed>2022-08-04 19:38:22 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] Office Echo: Locale en-us timezone America/Chicago 2022-08-04 19:38:22 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] Office Echo: DND False 2022-08-04 19:38:22 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] Loading config entry for media_player 2022-08-04 19:38:22 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media] Finished fetching alexa_media data in 3.004 seconds (success: True) 2022-08-04 19:39:46 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Message: This is a test, kwargs: {‘target’: [‘[SANATIZED]’], ‘data’: None} 2022-08-04 19:39:46 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Target type: <class ‘list’> 2022-08-04 19:39:46 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Processing: [SANATIZED] 2022-08-04 19:39:46 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Processed Target by string: [‘[SANATIZED]’] 2022-08-04 19:39:57 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Message: This is a test, kwargs: {‘target’: [‘[SANATIZED]’], ‘data’: None} 2022-08-04 19:39:57 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Target type: <class ‘list’> 2022-08-04 19:39:57 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Processing: [SANATIZED] 2022-08-04 19:39:57 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Processed Target by string: [‘[SANATIZED]’] 2022-08-04 19:40:03 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Message: This is a test, kwargs: {‘target’: [‘[SANATIZED]’], ‘data’: {‘type’: ‘tts’}} 2022-08-04 19:40:03 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Target type: <class ‘list’> 2022-08-04 19:40:03 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Processing: [SANATIZED] 2022-08-04 19:40:03 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] Processed Target by string: [‘[SANATIZED]’] 2022-08-04 19:40:03 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.alexa_media.notify] TTS by <Entity Office Echo: standby> : This is a test 2022-08-04 19:40:05 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexaapi] [SANATIZED]: Creating sequence for 1 items 2022-08-04 19:40:05 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexaapi] [SANATIZED]: Running behavior with data: {“behaviorId”: “PREVIEW”, “sequenceJson”: “{"@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.Sequence", "startNode": {"@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.SerialNode", "nodesToExecute": [{"@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.OpaquePayloadOperationNode", "type": "Alexa.Speak", "operationPayload": {"deviceType": "A32DOYMUN6DTXA", "deviceSerialNumber": "[SANATIZED]", "locale": "en-us", "customerId": "[SANATIZED]", "textToSpeak": "This is a test", "target": {"customerId": "[SANATIZED]", "devices": [{"deviceSerialNumber": "[SANATIZED]", "deviceTypeId": "A32DOYMUN6DTXA"}]}, "skillId": "amzn1.ask.1p.saysomething"}}]}}”, “status”: “ENABLED”} 2022-08-04 19:40:05 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexaapi] [SANATIZED]: POST: https://alexa.amazon.com/api/behaviors/preview returned 200:OK:application/octet-stream

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About this issue

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 61 (2 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I’ve been using TTS/Announcements with this component since 2019, without any issues until recently. I spent the last few days diagnosing the issue and I’m including what I found in my personal setup.

I mostly use announcements since I include SSML markup in my messages. I’m not sure what update broke the announcements, if it was Home Assistant, this component, or the Alexa API; but I discovered the inclusion of the <speak> tags in my messages no longer produced announcements. Logs showed the POST with 200 response but nothing else. Removing the <speak> tag and leaving all other SSML untouched resolved most of my issues.

Sample log that doesn’t produce announcement, initiated from HA Services tab in Dev Tools

2023-02-02 21:25:48.612 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexaapi] REDACTED: Running behavior with data: {"behaviorId": "PREVIEW", "sequenceJson": "{"@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.Sequence", "startNode": {"@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.SerialNode", "nodesToExecute": [{"@type": "com.amazon.alexa.behaviors.model.OpaquePayloadOperationNode", "type": "AlexaAnnouncement", "operationPayload": {"deviceType": "REDACTED", "deviceSerialNumber": "REDACTED", "locale": "en-US", "customerId": "REDACTED", "expireAfter": "PT5S", "content": [{"locale": "en-US", "display": {"title": "Home Assistant", "body": "<speak>\n <amazon:effect name='whispered'>\n Good morning. It's almost time to wake up.\n </amazon:effect>\n</speak>"}, "speak": {"type": "text", "value": "<speak>\n <amazon:effect name='whispered'>\n Good morning. It's almost time to wake up.\n </amazon:effect>\n</speak>"}}], "target": {"customerId": "REDACTED", "devices": [{"deviceSerialNumber": "REDACTED", "deviceTypeId": "REDACTED"}]}, "skillId": "amzn1.ask.1p.routines.messaging"}}]}}", "status": "ENABLED"}
2023-02-02 21:25:48.802 DEBUG (MainThread) [alexapy.alexaapi] REDACTED: POST: https://alexa.amazon.com/api/behaviors/preview returned 200:OK:application/octet-stream

In addition to discovering the <speak> tag issue. I also have my messages in separate files, and !include them in my yaml configuration.

example automation:

action:
  - service: notify.alexa_media
    data:
      message: !include morning_workday_wakeup_alexa_whisper.j2
      target: media_player.nightstand
      data:
        type: announce
        method: speak

example message include:

<speak>
    <amazon:effect name="whispered">
        Good morning. It's almost time to wake up.
    </amazon:effect>
    <break time="4s"/>
    <p>It's {{ now().strftime('%I:%M %p') }}</p>
    <p>{{ [
          'Get your butt out of bed!',
          '<say-as interpret-as="interjection">cock a doodle doo</say-as>'
        ] | random }}</p>
</speak>

Having to remove the <speak> tags that surrounded all the jinja2 templating created new yaml import/parsing/template parsing errors that I had to correct in each file.

Hope this helps someone else 👍

ochlocracy on Feb 3, 2023

Seems there was an issue with my configuration. After the completely remove of the integration and reinstall with the right region (amazon.it for me not amazon.com), the integration works correctly.

maxicasa on Sep 3, 2022