# Release Candidate and Support: Amazon Echo Control Binding

**URL:** <https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844>\
**Category:** Bindings\
**Tags:** support, binding, amazonechocontrol\
**Created:** [December 27, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844 "2017-12-27T17:56:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 39

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**Author:** ![jwiseman](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/jwiseman/32/97501_2.png) [@jwiseman](https://community.openhab.org/u/jwiseman)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/769 "2018-07-16T00:37:20Z")

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Perfect!

Thanks again, Jay

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**Author:** ![Thedannymullen](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/thedannymullen/32/73361_2.png) [@Thedannymullen](https://community.openhab.org/u/Thedannymullen)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/770 "2018-07-16T22:52:12Z")

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I don’t believe I am the only one having the error below. Looking through this thread and the others sited, I didnt see a fix, or did I miss something? If there is no current fix, I will monitor thread for now, it is not a big problem for me.

```auto
HTTP ERROR 500
Problem accessing /amazonechocontrol/account1/. Reason:

    Server Error
Caused by:
org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.ConnectionException: No session id received
	at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.Connection.getLoginPage(Connection.java:435)
	at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.AccountServlet.doGet(AccountServlet.java:219)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:687)
	at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:848)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:584)
	at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.HttpServiceServletHandler.doHandle(HttpServiceServletHandler.java:71)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:226)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1180)
	at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.HttpServiceContext.doHandle(HttpServiceContext.java:284)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:512)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1112)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
	at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.JettyServerHandlerCollection.handle(JettyServerHandlerCollection.java:80)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:134)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:534)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:333)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:283)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:108)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectChannelEndPoint$2.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:93)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.executeProduceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:303)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.produceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:148)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.run(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:136)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:671)
	at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:589)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Powered by Jetty:// 9.3.21.v20170918

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**Author:** ![zolakk](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/zolakk/32/38664_2.png) [@zolakk](https://community.openhab.org/u/zolakk)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/771 "2018-07-16T23:19:39Z")

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I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s related to all the site crashing issues Amazon has been having with prime day, I would just wait and it should clear up on it’s own

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**Author:** ![fifo](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@fifo](https://community.openhab.org/u/fifo)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/772 "2018-07-16T23:23:58Z")

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Same issue here… Amazon is probably throwing all their resources on selling echo devices today…

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**Author:** ![ThomasOH](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/thomasoh/32/8955_2.png) [@ThomasOH](https://community.openhab.org/u/ThomasOH)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 2:24am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/773 "2018-07-17T02:24:50Z")

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My email alert warned me today that the Echo Control binding was down. It’s Amazon Prime Day, which has been crashing servers all day.

I was one of the problem makers since I did some shopping myself (and many shopping pages crashed, making it miserable). I think this mess will take a couple days to go away.

- Thomas

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**Author:** ![KidSquid](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/kidsquid/32/3985_2.png) [@KidSquid](https://community.openhab.org/u/KidSquid)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/774 "2018-07-17T04:03:30Z")

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@ThomasOH @michi

Question - Would it be possible to take the code for the TTS portion of this and package it as a OH TTS service/binding?

This would allow it to become another option of available processors like POLLY TTS and the new GOOGLE TTS.

Thanks,

Squid

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**Author:** ![Pedals2Paddles](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/pedals2paddles/32/73464_2.png) [@Pedals2Paddles](https://community.openhab.org/u/Pedals2Paddles)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/775 "2018-07-17T10:21:35Z")

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My logs were drowning in Amazon errors yesterday too. I didn’t make the prime day connection and thought something was wrong on my end. I deleted the things and bindings, and commented out all the items and groups. I’ll try to reinstall it all later this week.

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**Author:** ![natodd](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/natodd/32/71089_2.png) [@natodd](https://community.openhab.org/u/natodd)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/776 "2018-07-18T18:57:39Z")

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I was just getting mine setup and apparently chose the wrong time to do so. I’ll give it until Friday or Saturday before I attempt to start over.

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**Author:** ![schaze](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/schaze/32/73484_2.png) [@schaze](https://community.openhab.org/u/schaze)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/777 "2018-07-18T19:08:04Z")

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Hi all,  
I am using this binding since a while and I am very happy with it.  
However I have noticed my REST calls to Openhab (also in the PaperUI) are significantly slower when I have items enabled for the echo control binding. Response times drop from 130ms to 2.5 seconds!

I could narrow it down to the following channels:

- echo:musicProviderId
- echo:amazonMusicPlayListId
- echo:playAlarmSound
- wha:amazonMusicTrackId
- wha:amazonMusicPlayListId

each one is adding about 100ms to the request (with 4 echos and one multiroom setup this amounts to about 2500ms additional request time)

Has anyone else experienced something similar?  
/schaze

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**Author:** ![zolakk](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/zolakk/32/38664_2.png) [@zolakk](https://community.openhab.org/u/zolakk)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/778 "2018-07-18T21:24:16Z")

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I noticed it too but it got buried in the conversation (a few times) above. It seems that the binding makes a call to amazon even if openhab is just getting the value/current status of items attached to those channels. I don’t know why it’s doing it but for now I’ve just unlinked my items attached to those channels since I have 5 devices and it was making my habpanel unusable

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**Author:** ![natodd](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/natodd/32/71089_2.png) [@natodd](https://community.openhab.org/u/natodd)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/779 "2018-07-25T01:36:47Z")

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Are you still getting this? I get this initially, then if I refresh after about 30 seconds I’m able to get to the Amazon login screen. I login and then I’m prompted to login a 2nd time and type in a captcha. After I complete that step I’m then getting:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Empty cookie header string

I’m curious if anyone else got this and I just did something stupid on setup.

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**Author:** ![Thedannymullen](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/thedannymullen/32/73361_2.png) [@Thedannymullen](https://community.openhab.org/u/Thedannymullen)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/780 "2018-07-25T01:41:08Z")

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@natodd if you were asking me, I have not tried to reinstall yet. I am traveling so I decided to wait until I was going to be home to try again.

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**Author:** ![natodd](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/natodd/32/71089_2.png) [@natodd](https://community.openhab.org/u/natodd)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/781 "2018-07-25T16:47:54Z")

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ok, thanks Danny.

Edit2: I got this resolved. Deleted the binding and things.  
Reinstalled and resetup. Working correctly now.

Edit:  
Seems I’m still getting this.

` java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Empty cookie header string
at java.net.HttpCookie.parseInternal(HttpCookie.java:826)
at java.net.HttpCookie.parse(HttpCookie.java:202)
at java.net.HttpCookie.parse(HttpCookie.java:178)
at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.Connection.makeRequest(Connection.java:366)
at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.AccountServlet.HandleProxyRequest(AccountServlet.java:453)
at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.AccountServlet.doPost(AccountServlet.java:160)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:848)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:584)
at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.HttpServiceServletHandler.doHandle(HttpServiceServletHandler.java:71)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143)
at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:226)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1180)
at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.HttpServiceContext.doHandle(HttpServiceContext.java:284)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:512)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1112)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.JettyServerHandlerCollection.handle(JettyServerHandlerCollection.java:80)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:134)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:534)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:333)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:283)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:108)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectChannelEndPoint$2.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:93)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.executeProduceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:303)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.produceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:148)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.run(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:136)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:671)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:589)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
`

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**Author:** ![wawa79](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c4cdca/32.png) [@wawa79](https://community.openhab.org/u/wawa79)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2018, 11:06am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/782 "2018-07-29T11:06:24Z")

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May this help to solve the UNDEF volume issue:  
I just noticed today that only Echo devices have the volume set to UNDEF: Echo Dot devices show the right volume level from the beginning.

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**Author:** ![wawa79](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c4cdca/32.png) [@wawa79](https://community.openhab.org/u/wawa79)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/783 "2018-07-30T10:50:26Z")

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I experience incorrect character encoding with Amazon Echo binding. See how the list of devices is shown (should be Deuxième étage and Rez-de-chaussée).

 ![tempsnip](https://community-openhab-org.s3.dualstack.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/0/207c2669290185e4614ecb90ee3b09ce3d62b684.jpeg)

Any text coming from Amazon has this incorrect character set (name of songs, radios…). Any idea what is causing this issue? I read about UTF8 / ISO8859-1 charset issue…

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**Author:** ![wawa79](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c4cdca/32.png) [@wawa79](https://community.openhab.org/u/wawa79)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/784 "2018-07-30T12:20:06Z")

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@michi  
Does the TTS feature fully support the SSML? This would help customizing a bit the speech of Alexa which terrible 👽 by default (at least in French)  
See [Amazon Alexa SSML reference](https://developer.amazon.com/fr/docs/custom-skills/speech-synthesis-markup-language-ssml-reference.html)  
How should text be formatted to include the tags?

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**Author:** ![Sascha\_Billian](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/sascha_billian/32/17056_2.png) [@Sascha\_Billian](https://community.openhab.org/u/Sascha_Billian)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/785 "2018-07-30T21:41:14Z")

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Hi everybody,

i’ve created a new thread since i’m having issues with the playMusicVoiceCommand.  
But since my original thread went quite down on the list, i’ve decided to ask here:

> [@Echo Binding - PlayMusicCommand results in Bad request](https://community.openhab.org/t/echo-binding-playmusiccommand-results-in-bad-request/48501):
>
> Hi, OpenHab 2.3 on RasPi 3 with the 2.3 Version of the Amazon Echo binding with an Echo Dot. The whole echo binding works like a charm, but when I want to send commands to the item linked to the binding’s PlayMusicVoiceCommand, i am getting the following error: 018-07-28 23:39:35.111 [ERROR] [nal.common.AbstractInvocationHandler] - An error occurred while calling method 'ThingHandler.handleCommand()' on 'org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.handler.EchoHandler@a84e39': POST url 'https://alex…

Does anybody have an idea why the playMusicVoice command results in a bad request?  
TTS is working.

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**Author:** ![rafdalb](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@rafdalb](https://community.openhab.org/u/rafdalb)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/786 "2018-08-08T10:33:29Z")

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Hello,

I was trying to install this binding to my openhab installation and I’ve got several errors. In the beginning it was one of the errors received by other users (No session id received), and then I decided to use nightly build (still the same No session id received).

Then I decided to change the java version from the Zulu8 (embedded in openhabian) to the oracle one.

After I did that I now get the login page time to time, but when I get it and I try to login (with captcha which always happens) I get the following error (got from the debug on openhab2)

My version is:  
ii openhab2 2.4.0~20180802110936-1 all openhab2

[12:32:59] openhabian@openHABianPi:~$ java -version  
java version “1.8.0\_181”  
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0\_181-b13)  
Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode)

12:25:06.738 [DEBUG] [amazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Login query String: appActionToken=cDh1qaJTenNVWr5oSK3JjZrDiu8j3D&appAction=SIGNIN&showRmrMe=ape%3AMQ%3D%3D&openid.return\_to=ape%3AaHR0cHM6Ly9hbGV4YS5hbWF6b24uY29tLw%3D%3D&prevRID=ape%3AUEtWQlZCRUcyV1gzQUNSUU1RU1Y%3D&openid.identity=ape%3AaHR0cDovL3NwZWNzLm9wZW5pZC5uZXQvYXV0aC8yLjAvaWRlbnRpZmllcl9zZWxlY3Q%3D&openid.assoc\_handle=ape%3AYW16bl9kcF9wcm9qZWN0X2RlZQ%3D%3D&openid.mode=ape%3AY2hlY2tpZF9zZXR1cA%3D%3D&failedSignInCount=ape%3AMA%3D%3D&openid.claimed\_id=ape%3AaHR0cDovL3NwZWNzLm9wZW5pZC5uZXQvYXV0aC8yLjAvaWRlbnRpZmllcl9zZWxlY3Q%3D&pageId=ape%3AYW16bl9kcF9wcm9qZWN0X2RlZQ%3D%3D&openid.ns=ape%3AaHR0cDovL3NwZWNzLm9wZW5pZC5uZXQvYXV0aC8yLjA%3D&showPasswordChecked=false&session-id=131-5145053-5932232  
12:25:06.799 [DEBUG] [amazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Make request to [https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin](https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin)  
12:25:06.911 [WARN] [.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler] - /amazonechocontrol/echo/ap/signin  
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Empty cookie header string  
at java.net.HttpCookie.parseInternal(HttpCookie.java:826) [?:?]  
at java.net.HttpCookie.parse(HttpCookie.java:202) [?:?]  
at java.net.HttpCookie.parse(HttpCookie.java:178) [?:?]  
at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.Connection.makeRequest(Connection.java:366) [208:org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol:2.4.0.201808020834]  
at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.AccountServlet.HandleProxyRequest(AccountServlet.java:453) [208:org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol:2.4.0.201808020834]  
at org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.AccountServlet.doPost(AccountServlet.java:160) [208:org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol:2.4.0.201808020834]  
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707) [24:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0]  
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) [24:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:848) [78:org.eclipse.jetty.servlet:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:584) [78:org.eclipse.jetty.servlet:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.HttpServiceServletHandler.doHandle(HttpServiceServletHandler.java:71) [175:org.ops4j.pax.web.pax-web-jetty:6.0.9]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:548) [75:org.eclipse.jetty.security:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:226) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1180) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.HttpServiceContext.doHandle(HttpServiceContext.java:284) [175:org.ops4j.pax.web.pax-web-jetty:6.0.9]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:512) [78:org.eclipse.jetty.servlet:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1112) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.ops4j.pax.web.service.jetty.internal.JettyServerHandlerCollection.handle(JettyServerHandlerCollection.java:80) [175:org.ops4j.pax.web.pax-web-jetty:6.0.9]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:134) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:534) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:333) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:251) [77:org.eclipse.jetty.server:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:283) [69:org.eclipse.jetty.io:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:108) [69:org.eclipse.jetty.io:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.SelectChannelEndPoint$2.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:93) [69:org.eclipse.jetty.io:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.executeProduceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:303) [80:org.eclipse.jetty.util:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.produceConsume(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:148) [80:org.eclipse.jetty.util:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.ExecuteProduceConsume.run(ExecuteProduceConsume.java:136) [80:org.eclipse.jetty.util:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:671) [80:org.eclipse.jetty.util:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$2.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:589) [80:org.eclipse.jetty.util:9.3.21.v20170918]  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:?]  
12:25:07.913 [DEBUG] [amazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Call to [https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin](https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin) succeeded  
12:25:08.108 [DEBUG] [amazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Received content after login

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**Author:** ![michi](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/michi/32/15741_2.png) [@michi](https://community.openhab.org/u/michi)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/787 "2018-08-10T14:11:47Z")

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> [@schaze](#):
>
> - echo:musicProviderId
> - echo:amazonMusicPlayListId
> - echo:playAlarmSound
> - wha:amazonMusicTrackId
> - wha:amazonMusicPlayListId

Hi schaze,  
I assume this is because there is an dynamic state description provider for these channels. But I don’t know any solution for this problem.  
Regards,  
Michael

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**Author:** ![michi](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/michi/32/15741_2.png) [@michi](https://community.openhab.org/u/michi)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/release-candidate-and-support-amazon-echo-control-binding/37844/788 "2018-08-10T14:47:28Z")

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**Beta 2.4 (1) Version**

Hi everybody,

I found a little bit time to prepare a new beta version. I have refactored the connection handling, so that I’am sure that no old connection can left in the memory. I do not know, if this fix any of the problems, because I do not have any problems in my installation.

I also tried to fix the “java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Empty cookie header string” error.  
I also do not know if this fix anything else, because I have never seen this problem in my installation.

And last but not least I tried to fix the problem with UNDEF volumn.

The download link can be find [in the top most posting in this thread](https://community.openhab.org/t/released-openhab2-amazon-echo-control-binding-controlling-alexa-from-openhab2/37844).

I also have added a feature for people with technical background know how:

It’s now possible to call all alexa api calls thought a http proxy which adds the session cookies.

Just use the url http(s)://[youropenhab]/amazonechocontrol/PROXY/[accountid]/ as prefix.

E.g. to get the latest commands spoken to alexa: [http://localhost:8080/amazonechocontrol/account1/PROXY/api/activities?size=5&offset=0](http://localhost:8080/amazonechocontrol/account1/PROXY/api/activities?size=5&offset=0)

E.g. to get all timers:  
[http://localhost:8080/amazonechocontrol/account1/PROXY/api/notifications](http://localhost:8080/amazonechocontrol/account1/PROXY/api/notifications)

Maybe anybody else can provide a sample, how this can be used in a rule

The proxy server supports also PUT and POST verbs.

Regards,  
Michael

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