Release Candidate and Support: Amazon Echo Control Binding

regissg · August 29, 2020, 1:31pm

I am having the amazon sign in problem. I am using Amazon Echo Control Binding 2.5.6. I would like to update to 2.5.7 but I do not know where to find the related jar file. Could any one give me a link to it?

Bredmich · August 29, 2020, 1:58pm

You´re able to find the latest builds a jfrog.
The 2.5.7 jar of this binding can be found here.

regissg · August 29, 2020, 4:18pm

Thanks, I have been able to update to 2.5.7 but I keep having the amazon sign in problem. Basically (with 2.5.6 or 2.5.7) I could not complete the openhab:8080/amazonechocontrol task as Amazon Alexa keeps asking me to sign-in.

Any suggestion on how to fix that?

Wolfgang_S · August 29, 2020, 4:39pm

Try the steps which are described in this and the following posts.

regissg · August 29, 2020, 6:02pm

Thanks. Echo devices are back on track

alaub81 · September 10, 2020, 6:23pm

Hi! I don’t know if here is the right place for my problem, but since Version 2.5.7 I can’t use PaperUI and HABPanel. After a long research, I found out, that the problem is since Version 2.5.7. if I do a downgrade to the latest 2.5.6 Snapshot everything works fine.

The Problem is, that in PaperUI I get an ERROR 500 - Internal Server Error when I click on the control Button, or on the Item list. In the REST UI I can’t get the item list, too. And HABPanel, brings up an error, that there is no connection to habpanel. If I downgrade or even uninstall the amazonechocontroll add-on, everything works fine.

In the logs there is nothing to find and it took me weeks to find out, that the binding is the problem. I am using the docker Version, and so I have a good test environment to play around. My production openhab is still on openhab Version 2.5.6. My Test Stage is on the lates 2.5.8 docker image.

Hope someone could give me some hints, how I can solve that problem. What I did so far:

uninstalled the binding
cache clearing
Update and downgrade to snapshot versions 2.5.6 - 2.5.9
check the log files
restart the container
tried other openhab versions
uninstallation via bundle: command
up and down grade via bundle: command
delete all things and items
delete the amazon account thing
logged out the amazon account

So perhaps I missed something and someone could help me out with that problem.

best regards
Andreas

HappyDexter · September 16, 2020, 11:28am

I have the same problem. Every time I call alexa for some action which is not used for openhab (e.g. playing a radio station) I get a warning in the log:

2020-09-16 12:57:22.764 [WARN ] [trol.internal.handler.AccountHandler] - handling of websockets fails
org.openhab.binding.amazonechocontrol.internal.HttpException: GET url 'https://alexa.amazon.de/api/activities?startTime=1600253842371&size=10&offset=1' failed: Bad Request

funcat · September 17, 2020, 11:52am

Hi all,
For couple of days, i have errors now from this binding :

2020-09-17 13:46:59.170 [WARN ] [mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Illegal json: {"playlists":{"Mes Likes":[{"entryList":null,"playlistId":"...","title":"Mes Likes","trackCount":0,"version":"4:880679411"}],"Piano":[{"entryList":null,"playlistId":"

This is a Parsing json failed error.
It seems that amazon API return now a version with a “x:y” format (“4:880679411” in my case), and the addon cannot parse ton number.
Am i alone ?
Thanks

Christoph_Holler · September 17, 2020, 12:40pm

No, you are not alone - same here since today:
[mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Parsing json failed

com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:
Some of my rules don’t work anymore since today. E.g. some calls of amazon playlists or an information about values:
[rthome.model.script.actions.BusEvent] - Cannot convert ‘here is my text (41) degrees celsius (43) percent humidity’ to a command type which item ‘Echo_room1_TTS_Volume’ accepts: [PercentType, OnOffType, IncreaseDecreaseType, RefreshType].
Seems amazon is changing something in the background, right?

Dave_K · September 17, 2020, 5:18pm

Looks like you are trying to send your text to speech to the volume.

Christoph_Holler · September 17, 2020, 5:30pm

OMG - you are right - but that’s not the case - the thing is a defined TTS:
Echo_room1_TTS.sendCommand("here is my text

Dave_K · September 17, 2020, 5:35pm

Maybe there is something wrong with your thing/item/rule. Maybe in your rule you try so set the volueme before speaking and used the wrong variable. The log never lies!

Christoph_Holler · September 17, 2020, 6:08pm

Well - it was working before since about a year, and after a restart it also works now again. No clue why but I haven’t changed the .rules file. Anyway, I still have other warnings linked to the amazon binding such as:
[WARN ] [mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Illegal json: {“playlists”:{“10”:[{“entryList”:null,“playlistId”… => with all my playlists on amazon music
or
[WARN ] [mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Parsing json failed

com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string:

HappyDexter · September 18, 2020, 5:29am

Since two day I get the same messages in my log. First the Illegal Jason for my playlists and then the Parsing json failed.

helmar74 · September 18, 2020, 6:22am

Same “Illegal json:” error here in openhab.log file. I assume Amazon changed something in the API and the Addon has to be updated?

Dave_K · September 18, 2020, 1:07pm

This error seems to be coming when the binding tries to access the playlists. Somehow one of them has a strange version number. In my case it’s “My favorites” that has version “2:923521”, which can’t be parsed as a number. Every other playlist has a valid number for the version.

HappyDexter · September 18, 2020, 1:32pm

OK, that can be the Problem. My “My Favorites” looks like yours.
"title":"Meine Favoriten","trackCount":0,"version":"1:870161590"
and I get the following message in the Log under the json:
Parsing json failed com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "1:870161590"

But this Playlist can’t be removed, so that the Problem can’t be resolved.

Dave_K · September 18, 2020, 1:43pm

Someone already created an issue for this: https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/8491

mbcomer68 · September 18, 2020, 5:29pm

I am having a problem with the sign-on which does not appear to be the same as what anyone else has reported. This is after making sure I had the latest 2.5.8 jar, removing any existing Amazon account and starting over to get a new ID, etc. Basically what is happening is that the sign-on process errors-out while I am doing the Amazon verification process (responding to the SMS they send me by clicking the link, etc). I can see that for some reason the sign-on page is trying to make an async request to:

<<server>>:<<port>>/ap/uedata?<params omitted>

And this is returning a 404. This appears to be breaking the login process. Even though I approve the login with Amazon, the process in OpenHAB never completes.

Presumably the problem is with me LOL but maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

Sergi_Mola · September 18, 2020, 8:08pm

I am also facing a problem with the login. It’s the first time I try this binding and when I sign in, a receive an SMS to approve the request but as soon as I receive it, I get kicked out (in the browser where I was configuring the binding) and I see again the Sign In screen.
That goes on and on…
Any ideas?

Thank you!