Amazon Echo Control Binding Errors when trying to Play TuneIN

J-N-K · August 19, 2021, 6:59pm

Sorry, didn‘t scroll far enough. I‘ll check that.

J-N-K · August 19, 2021, 9:41pm

Thanks for reporting. I have spoken with the Alexa maintainers of FHEM and ioBroker, and they report the same issue, so it seems to be a change on Amazon’s servers. We’ll investigate that.

Dominique_Gagnon · August 20, 2021, 12:56am

I have the same issue even with 3.2 snapshot. Thanks.

Jonas88 · August 20, 2021, 4:46am

Thanks a lot!

Regards
Jonas

Funny thing is programmed it just one day before it broke so i was wondering what was going on suddenly

J-N-K · August 20, 2021, 4:35pm

It’s also broken from the Browser (I use alexa.amazon.de), so it’s not related to our implementation.

I would suggest to use the textCommand channel and send something like “Spiele Radio Bob auf TuneIn” (“Play Radio Bob on TuneIn”). That works for me and also saves you from the work of getting the station id.

Jonas88 · August 20, 2021, 4:53pm

Nice idea, i will check that out!

openhab_knx · August 23, 2021, 6:10am

Hi Jan, thanks for the hint.
This is working for the single devices. How would you handle this with alexa mulitroom devices? (wha)
There is no possibilit to send textCommands.

Thanks

Jonas88 · August 23, 2021, 6:27am

It should work if you just choose any device and add the name of the mr-group: play music on first floor

openhab_knx · August 23, 2021, 6:33am

Ahh so easy. Thank you so much.

J-N-K · August 23, 2021, 5:45pm

Thanks, I didn’t knew that.

Dominique_Gagnon · August 23, 2021, 10:12pm

That’s weird because I cannot see any textCommand channel on any echo devices things.

J-N-K · August 24, 2021, 4:25am

It‘s an „advanced“ channel. Which version are you using?

Dominique_Gagnon · August 24, 2021, 10:36am

3.1
But as a work around, I created a routine on the alexa app and then I call this routine from OH by using startRoutine channel. And still no textCommand even in the advanced channel.

J-N-K · August 24, 2021, 2:55pm

Did you upgrade from a previous version? The textCommand channel was added some time ago and unfortunately openHAB does not update existing things. If you created the thing from discovery, you can delete the thing, re-discover it and all channel-links stay.

englishman.hu · August 28, 2021, 1:23pm

Instead of textCommand you can use the playMusicVoiceCommand channel.
Unfortunately nether are available for wha things, so I still can’t see an easy way to start radio on a speaker group.

eidelsburger · December 27, 2021, 12:17pm

Hi Forum,

are there new information for this “bug”?

I have tried it after openHAB 3.2.0 and Amazon Echo Control 3.28 update.
It seams thate the “TuneIn” is still broken at Amazon (I have tried also the URL und I’ll get an “” exception in the Amazon-WebUI).

Best regards,
Reinhard

J-N-K · December 27, 2021, 12:32pm

If Amazon removed that feature, there is not much we can do.

Jonas88 · December 27, 2021, 4:23pm

Just use the text input channel like you would do talking to alexa. Like „play blabla radio on tunein“ and it will work just fine

tommycw10 · July 20, 2022, 10:54pm

I know this is an old thread, but the work around seems to be to switch from using the radioStationId channel to using the textCommand channel (or playMusicVoiceCommand), but neither of these are supported to WHA (whole home audio). Does anyone have something that works for WHA?

psych · August 2, 2023, 10:49pm

Just in case someone pops in here again, using the textCommand on any device you can simply add ‘everywhere’ or the name of your audio group to the command (ie. ‘play heart radio everywhere’).
Tested, it works.