Has anyone tried using this new node? https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-amazon-echo I've not managed to get it to work with Echo Dot Gen-2 and NR running on Raspian Stretch on a RPi-3+ Would be interesting to hear from anyone who has been successful with it.

[image] scargill: I've been using it on port 8980 What led you to using this port?

Any random port above 1000 essentially as I needed port 80 for something else. SO, then a slight mod to the Pi as here (Feb 2019 update) - https://tech.scargill.net/the-script/ and it all worked – until it didn’t – then it did again. All is well.

[image] scargill: SO, then a slight mod to the Pi [image] That explains why it didn't work on mine :slight_smile: Will try that out - looks like a nice workaround to get Node-RED to use low ports without running as root :slight_smile:

Needed a slight modification as my Pi is using WiFi but working now without having to run Node-RED as root :slight_smile: wlan0 instead of eth0 sudo apt-get install iptables-persistent sudo iptables -I INPUT 1 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i wlan0 -p tcp --dpor…

Just implemented the above mods on an old Raspberry Pi-1 running Stretch and NR v1.0.0-beta.2 and can confirm the Amazon Echo Hub works really well with an Amazon Echo Dot (2nd Generation). Thanks for sharing the sudo commands.

This discovery is going make one of my IoT students so happy (when he/they return to school in September). He was given an Echo Dot (Gen 3) as a Christmas present and brought it to the IoT Club but we couldn't get it to work with the Amazon Echo Hub because of the Port 80 issue. The above 'sudo co…

[UPDATED to handle % from 0 to 100] Just been playing around seeing if I could extract more info but all I've managed to do is get it to output msg.percentage But at least that gives a easy number to use downstream node-red/node_modules/node-red-contrib-amazon-echo/index.js function payloadHandl…

Just been playing with the Amazon Echo Hub node - great fun (my IoT students will love it). One thing I've discovered is... if you ask it to set a colour it doesn't know or understand it hangs-up!!! For example... Alexa, set 'thing' to black. "Sorry 'thing' isn't responding, please check its netw…

Mine doesn't lock up after a "Alexa, set Pi to black" It does get the RGB value wrong though It just says it doesn't understand if I try a unknown colour [image]

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E1cid 18 September 2020 06:22 27

I don't think its possible with the echo-hub, Try using node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2.

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