Amazon Alexa is officially released in Canada on December 5th, 2017.
Requesting to enable Plex Alexa skill for English-Canada language and region.
Since Canadians mostly share the same language with our US friends I am sure nobody will complain if Plex devs just add support for the same trigger words for now.
Yes, please!
Very disappointed to find no Plex skill for Canada. Especially when we’re 10 days into the Canadian Alexa Launch. How hard can it be?
Apparently more difficult than we realize. I wish we could have a Plex employee address the lack of the skill in the Canadian store. Right now it feels like we’re talking into a void.
still waiting…
…and waiting… :s
As someone who has made a skill for the U.S. and then realized it wasn’t available in Canada it only took about 10 minutes of work and 2-3 days of waiting for approval.
I first had a skill that was designed for English (which has since been renamed English (U.S.) when they added more versions of english) which was listed as available in U.S. and Canada. Since English (canada) wasn’t a language option when I created the skill I figured I had done everything needed to get my skill in the U.S. and Canada.
But then when it launched in Canada and I couldn’t my skill I went back to the developer page and discovered that make skill was now set to English (U.S.) for U.S. and Canada, meaning it would work in Canada if the echo was set to U.S. Engish, but as I’m sure people have found out you can’t set and alexa to U.S. English and use it with a Canadian account.
So what I had to do to fix it was add a new language to the name Alexa Skill (not create a new skill). I added English (Canada), copied over all the descriptions etc from the U.S. and turned it on for U.S. and Canada so now there are 2 languages and 2 locations, all combinations enabled. a couple of days later the new English (Canada) version was approved and it was in the skill store.
There was no need to make any changes to code, just a few fields to fill out in the developer console.
One more vote for this one!
We def need this soon. I bought 2 echos and 3 dots. I’m a Amazon prime member and plex pass member … come on guys stop leaving Canadians out.
Thanks for the insight @hawler
I agree, I’m still waiting for it. No Sonos skill yet, so I was hoping to use Plex to listen to my music.
And I agree with hawler, I have a private skill and it is indeed just a choice in the console.
Any updates if this will be released soon? I got an Echos as a xmas gift, was excited to have it work with Plex only to learn that there were “Skill Store” limitations…
+1 for availability in Canada !
This is one or the primary reasons why I bought an Amazon Echo as well, which is more an issue for Amazon than Plex per say… Regardless, if it is that simple of a fix…
Please Plex! Add the Canadian support, my kids are dying to use Plex by voice!
+1 here also!
+1 from me.
+1 again, c’mon, its just a checkbox!
+1 again, c’mon, its just a checkbox!
this
+1 from Toronto
I agree… plex lifetime member here, bought echo for this reason.
I’ll ask the team to look into it!
(By the way, this would be best posted in the correct forum which might be why no employee has replied up until now.