Alexa Media Player Custom Component for homeassistant

What This Is:

This is a custom component to allow control of Amazon Alexa devices in Homeassistant using the unofficial Alexa API. Please note this mimics the Alexa app but Amazon may cut off access at anytime.

What It Does:

Allows for control of Amazon Echo products as home assistant media devices with the following features:

• Play/Pause/Stop
• Next/Previous (Track)
• Volume
• Retrieval for displaying in home assistant of:
  • Song Title
  • Artists Name
  • Album Name
  • Album Image

Notable Additional Features

Text-to-Speech

Can be invoked from the HA UI services menu. media_player.alexa_tts and requires a payload like this:

{"entity_id": "media_player.bedroom_echo_dot", "message": "Test message"}

The Home-Asistant Media_Player UI does not work!

Known working languages:

• US English
• Italian
• Mexican Spanish

Online status of devices

Additional attribute to tell you if the Alexa device is online (extremely useful if you want to send a TTS after one has come back online (such as one in a vehicle)

Last called device

Each device will report whether it is the last_called or not. This allows us to identify the device that was called according to the Alexa Activities API.

Further Documentation

Please see the wiki

Changelog

Use the commit history but we try to maintain this wiki.

License

Apache-2.0. By providing a contribution, you agree the contribution is licensed under Apache-2.0. This is required for Home Assistant contributions.