Re: Using Amazon Alexa device as LMS player

Ah, how ironic. After everything I said about Music Skills, it appears
the ASK SDK does not yet support music skills. :D Well, it just means I
need to write more boiler plate codes but should still be doable.

Paul Webster wrote: 
> As far as I remember, I made the code available to pngaudioguy in early
> December 2020 but I heard nothing since.
> I also explained the technique to PhilChillBill and he went on to make a
> significant number of improvements to it in his MediaServer skill.
> 
> My suggestion - try it out with MediaServer skill (first week is free)
> and see if you like the way that it works before investing your own time
> in reinventing wheel for the sake of a fee of $3 per month (if you were
> to cost your own time out ... then you don't pay for many development
> hours with that).

That's very kind of you. And I'll be asking you for it too once I get
the basic music skill thing working (playing anything from some internet
link somewhere.. ;) so I can see whether the music skill is what I think
it is.

The squeezebox eco-system survived this long because of open source, and
all the contributions many different developer has made over the time. I
a desire to have this capability available for free, even if it takes
some tinkering to get it working for each person that wants it. This
will open the doors for others to continue improve and refine it, rather
than starting from scratch again. I just don't want a paid subscription
option to be the only one available.

meep wrote: 
> Your proposed model will likely work well. However, it will require
> users to do a lot of local configuration & pfaffing about, so only
> suitable for peeps with some technical ability. My approach had been to
> make it consumer level accessible, so, a website you register with,
> account link the Alexa skill and install an LMS plugin (that can be
> updated). In this approach, its a lot more user friendly, though a loit
> more development work.

I see. Reading your other thread, now everything makes more sense. ;)
I'll circle back to this once I have something working. Right now I want
to build a simple solution with music skill, and see where it gets me.
Probably not everything will work, but I want to see what works and what
doesn't, and what I can do without adding too much complexity right
now.

Thanks!


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