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.

Worked fine for me, running NR on my mac I ran discovery from from 2nd Gen Echo Show, but I can't be sure that was the device performing local discovery as I have pretty much every kind of echo on the account/network.

What port number did you use in the properties tab on the Amazon Echo Hub ??

Thanks for your response. I've read on this forum that running NR as root is not recommended - so I've avoided it. The port-address for the node has been made user-configurable, so I assume there is a port above1023 that Amazon Echo Dot Gen-2 listens on?

I'm not massively familiar with it but I think what this node is doing is replicating the way an echo connects to a phillips hue bridge, eg over the local network, all other smart home skills on alexa are cloud-cloud hue is the only LAN based service. So the Amazon Echo node is making your NR look…

Hi Sam, Thanks for your very detailed explanation which makes complete sense. Cheers from David.

I've been using it on port 8980 successfully for some time now with Generation 3 dot, to turn stuff on and off by MQTT (with a debug out of the device node to make sure it is working). Can't use port 80 as that is used elsewhere. Just today it has stopped working. NO idea why at this point. I'm runn…

On my new Pi4, I tried this out using port 8980 but it wasn't found as a device So I stopped node-red - re-launched it as sudo node-red - had to re-add the node-red-contrib-amazon-echo using palette manager and it was discovered 1st time and responded to on/off commands :slight_smile: I'll have to…

What sort/version of Echo Dot are you using? I gave up trying to get my Amazon Echo Dot Gen-2 to work with it.

I'm using a £80 ,full size Alexa Echo bought 3 months ago - no info on it to say what version it is - it won't tell me what version it is - nothing the app to say what version it is

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80, although then you'll need to start node red as root/sudo as you're accessing a privileged port (<1024)

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