Topic: House Band -- Amazon Echo integration is available (Read 285700 times)

colins · « **Reply #600 on:** June 12, 2021, 06:12:19 am »

Hi, is there a walkthrough/desctruction page about how to setup the router to accomodate Houseband and Alexa?

chstuart · « **Reply #601 on:** July 14, 2021, 06:23:45 pm »

So I tried to launch House Band on Alexa as I have done for several years and Alexa tells me, "the House Band skill is no longer available." What's up with this? I logged into my Alexa account online, went to skills and did a search for House Band and there is no skill called House Band...

avpman · « **Reply #602 on:** July 14, 2021, 09:08:56 pm »

Quote from: chstuart on July 14, 2021, 06:23:45 pm

So I tried to launch House Band on Alexa as I have done for several years and Alexa tells me, "the House Band skill is no longer available." What's up with this? I logged into my Alexa account online, went to skills and did a search for House Band and there is no skill called House Band...

Ditto. This has seriously affected the WAF in our home. Does anyone know what happened?

RogerioNeiva · « **Reply #603 on:** July 16, 2021, 04:46:01 am »

Yes, I just found out when Alexa told me that the skill was no longer available. Any alternative ? Does anyone know why ? Wasn't hurting anyone.

JohnnySapphire · « **Reply #604 on:** July 23, 2021, 11:15:42 am »

Any new info or alternatives?

avpman · « **Reply #605 on:** July 23, 2021, 12:39:18 pm »

Quote from: JohnnySapphire on July 23, 2021, 11:15:42 am

Any new info or alternatives?

+1 I'm getting serious grief relative to the WAF. Please help me restore harmony in my home! 😱

Awesome Donkey · « **Reply #606 on:** July 23, 2021, 02:42:07 pm »

There's a good chance it's probably discontinued. From the looks of it sarkonovich hasn't logged into the forums here since May 2019. Hopefully everything's okay with him, but his disappearance and the disappearance of House Band isn't a good sign.

avpman · « **Reply #607 on:** July 23, 2021, 03:14:17 pm »

Hopefully, JR will pick this up and reimplement it. Seems it would be a great selling point for MC. So many devices these days are integrated with Alexa. I'm not sure how we're going to get along without Houseband here at home. ?

JimH · « **Reply #608 on:** July 23, 2021, 03:24:25 pm »

Don't give up yet. I wrote him a week or so ago and he replied.

avpman · « **Reply #609 on:** July 23, 2021, 03:52:51 pm »

Awesome! Thank you, Jim.

chstuart · « **Reply #610 on:** July 29, 2021, 04:07:54 pm »

Any Updates on when House Band will be available again?

avpman · « **Reply #611 on:** August 01, 2021, 11:00:00 am »

Quote from: JimH on July 23, 2021, 03:24:25 pm

Don't give up yet. I wrote him a week or so ago and he replied.

Jim, please keep this in mind if/when Houseband is resurrected:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,130100.0.html
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JohnnySapphire · « **Reply #612 on:** August 25, 2021, 03:02:54 pm »

any updates on houseband coming back or an alternative alexa skill to work with jriver?

JohnnySapphire · « **Reply #613 on:** September 08, 2021, 02:05:10 pm »

Quote from: JohnnySapphire on August 25, 2021, 03:02:54 pm

any updates on houseband coming back or an alternative alexa skill to work with jriver?

bump

avpman · « **Reply #614 on:** September 08, 2021, 02:15:26 pm »

Axedall · « **Reply #615 on:** September 11, 2021, 06:54:42 pm »

Like many of you, I was absolutely gutted at suddenly having House Band yanked out from under me. I talked to some people at Amazon and they confirmed that the skill is no longer available in their ecosystem.

JimH: Can you give us any more information on what the reply you received back from the developer was? Was it taken down to add new features? Planning on being up again any time soon?

I agree with some comments that more formal integration of voice command functionality would be a huge boost to JRiver. I would encourage everyone who has posted here to voice that on the 'feature request' section of the upcoming version!

datdude · « **Reply #616 on:** September 15, 2021, 09:49:16 pm »

I switched to using eventghost combined with JRiver’s MCC commands. I can create any keywords in eventghost that is tied to any command, artist, album or playlist in MC.

http://www.eventghost.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7429

It is time consuming to setup and tune with Alexa but well worth the effort. Since you are setting up your own private Alexa Developer skill, it is very unlikely Amazon would ever pull it. I've used it flawlessly for several years now.

Axedall · « **Reply #617 on:** October 08, 2021, 12:37:18 am »

I also reached out to the developer and the response I got back was sadly not encouraging. It sounds like he would have to completely re-write the app and has not indicated an intent to do that. This really seems like something that should be integrated in to a program like JRiver that touts itself as being a modern media player.

JohnnySapphire · « **Reply #618 on:** October 11, 2021, 01:12:35 pm »

Quote from: Axedall on October 08, 2021, 12:37:18 am

I also reached out to the developer and the response I got back was sadly not encouraging. It sounds like he would have to completely re-write the app and has not indicated an intent to do that. This really seems like something that should be integrated in to a program like JRiver that touts itself as being a modern media player.

Thanks. Looks like we might have to go a completely new direction. Too bad, like JRiver.

JohnnySapphire · « **Reply #619 on:** November 12, 2021, 01:43:32 pm »

anyone have any updates or find any alternatives?

JimH · « **Reply #620 on:** August 22, 2022, 02:06:41 pm »

The next major version of MC will support Alexa. November?

JimH · « **Reply #621 on:** September 22, 2022, 01:55:12 pm »

Alexa Support in MC30: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,133776.0.html

You can use it now with MC 29.0.87 or higher if you have an MC30 license installed.

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