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Re: Amazon Alexa Echo integration/playback?

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:19 am
by Don
A NAS is a computer.

Re: Amazon Alexa Echo integration/playback?

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 11:16 pm
by barrie.kenyon
Many people use their QNAP NAS as a media centre, holding hundreds, maybe thousands, of music files in their library.

Amazon Alexa is now very common, my kids even gave me one for Christmas. It's great. Howver linking it to my music on my NAS is complicated and unreliable.

Why don't we encorage QNAP to integrate Alexa into the Multimedia Console so that we can reach out and play our music witout hassle? Just the wat that Synology do with their NAS.

Re: Amazon Alexa Echo integration/playback?

Posted: Thu May 14, 2020 11:20 pm
by mjonis
barrie.kenyon wrote: Thu May 14, 2020 11:16 pm Many people use their QNAP NAS as a media centre, holding hundreds, maybe thousands, of music files in their library.

Amazon Alexa is now very common, my kids even gave me one for Christmas. It's great. Howver linking it to my music on my NAS is complicated and unreliable.

Why don't we encorage QNAP to integrate Alexa into the Multimedia Console so that we can reach out and play our music witout hassle? Just the wat that Synology do with their NAS.
Agreed. Would be nice.
Although probably a better chance of that vs. Amazon getting "her" to use DLNA. Seems they want you to pay for the subscription services.

Anyway, I've finally gotten around to installing the MyMedia thingy for Alexa, but it seems it wants the *primary* account for "her", so I'll have to have my partner enter that in when I get a chance. Ironically I'm the owner of the Prime account, but he's the owner of "her". (I say "her" because she knows when I say/think/type her name). haha

Re: Amazon Alexa Echo integration/playback?

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 10:06 pm
by barrie.kenyon
Let me know how you get on with MyMedia. I could not install it, it kept saying something like 'cannot connect to the internet'
Gave up and installed PLex for now.

Re: Amazon Alexa Echo integration/playback?

Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 9:58 am
by mjonis
barrie.kenyon wrote: Fri May 15, 2020 10:06 pm Let me know how you get on with MyMedia. I could not install it, it kept saying something like 'cannot connect to the internet'
Gave up and installed PLex for now.
Mine installed, but when I click on it to configure it, and login to Amazon, it then just sits there and says it's Loading it. Never gets any further.

There's a year old thread on Reddit where a few people installed and said it works, but that's it.