Alexa Media Player

For those interested in TVOC, the Amazon Air Quality Monitor uses a SEN44 that I think is the same as the SEN54, the difference being that Sensirion won't issue a data sheet for the SEN44 as it is not a retail product. Looks the same. The Amazon entities, including TVOC, are revealed in HA using the "Alexa Media Player" integration listed under HACS. They don't show as devices as they piggy-back on the Echo devices, so prepare to be mystified. Sensiron publish their methodology for TVOC data analysis, referencing current values to a moving average of all data over the previous 24 hours on a …

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I have Amazon Echo Dots in each room and they are accessible to HA using the Alexa Media Player integration which I think came from HACS. It can use Text to speech (TTS) to make the Echo Dots say anything I want. It can also make the Echo Dots play any sound in the Alexa Audio Library which includes various dog barking recordings. I believe there is a way to have them play custom mp3 files but I haven’t tried that out. The Amazon Echo Dots require internet connectivity to work so be aware of that. Just my 2 cents for what you are looking for.

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Introduce a Home Assistant device to represent the Amazon Indoor Air Quality Monitor (AIAQM) device - Group all AIAQM-related entities (air quality sensors and temperature) under this device - Replace previously unattached AIAQM entities with a properly grouped device representation - Preserve existing entity IDs and behavior for non-AIAQM devices - Filter AIAQM sub-sensors using asset-based friendly names to avoid exposing unsupported capabilities (e.g. PM10: "@type : text") - No new services, controls, or configuration options added Amazon’s _Indoor Air Quality Monitor_ reports multiple …

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Inspired by #3378 I added two of my Denon devices. One limitation: I dont have a Denon Home 350, so don't know what the identifier of that one is. ## Summary by CodeRabbit * New Features * Added support for Denon Home 150 and Denon Home 250 speakers, discoverable, status shown, and controllable from the app. * Other * Updated device naming for a Fire TV entry to "Fire TV Stick 4K Max (Gen1)" for clearer identification.

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Inspired by #3378 I added two of my Denon devices. One limitation: I dont have a Denon Home 350, so don't know what the identifier of that one is. ## Summary by CodeRabbit * New Features * Added support for Denon Home 150 and Denon Home 250 speakers, discoverable, status shown, and controllable from the app. * Other * Updated device naming for a Fire TV entry to "Fire TV Stick 4K Max (Gen1)" for clearer identification.

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Summary by CodeRabbit * Bug Fixes * Added support for Echo Show 11 (Gen1) device in Alexa Media component.

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Adds the device type for the 2025 Echo Show 8 (4th gen, model MD6NE4, the Alexa+ model with spatial audio) to `MODEL_IDS`, so it shows as "Echo Show 8 (Gen4)" instead of the raw family and type (`KNIGHT A345JHMQDGG1M5`). Tested on my own device: it reports device type `A345JHMQDGG1M5`, and the sticker model number is MD6NE4. ## Summary by CodeRabbit - New Features - Added support for identifying the Echo Show 8 (4th Generation) device.

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How to? Create a multiroom audio system using echo devices that takes input from my home theater system. I am in the process of moving everything over to home assistant and and am currently working on my home theater setup. I have Sonos or Bose wireless system on my short list of things to buy, but I already have so many devices and wanted to see if I could get something to work in the meantime. I currently have HA running on a NUC, an Nvidia Shield, an LGC1 oled tv, a PS5, and a Samsung Q950A soundbar system in my livingroom. Q950A is pretty decent and connected to the tv via eARC, so any …

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… there! I got past the "500 Internal Service" error and I have an automation set up to play a sound effect when a specific trigger is enabled. Now - my Echo Dot is complaining that "Direct Music Streaming Isn't Supported", something that is set by Amazon, and not my AMP or HA. I'm attempting to play a sound effect, about 7 sec long. My "type" is set to music. If I change the type to "sound", I do not get an error, but the sound never plays, either. In my config, I've tried just the filename.mp3, then doing local/filename.mp3, and finally, the entire path, …

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No, the Home Assistant Radio browser streams from the cloud through Home Assistant to locally connected media players and Echo media players are connected to Amazon cloud, not Home Assistant. Echo media players can only stream from cloud services via skills in Amazon like Spotify, Tune-In, etc. Alexa Media Player is emulating an Alexa app so if the Alexa app can't do it, AMP can't either. Think of it as the AMP Echo media players are remote controlling the Echo through Amazon cloud like the app does.

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