I just set up Plex on an old PC to test it out. My plan is to be able to direct Plex to play music on my Echo Dots similar to the way I can play Amazon Music, Pandora and others. On those, I just say "Alexa, play on and it works. For Pandora I need to use the same command but add “on Pandora”. I have several Echo’s around the house, including a Denon receiver that has the Alexa compatibility built in.
When I attempt to do the same thing with the Plex skill, it just plays on the device i’m talking to. The command i’m using is "Alexa, ask (or tell) Plex to play on . Sometimes, it actually starts playing the music using Amazon Music instead.
My question is: What is the correct command to use to tell Alexa to play Plex music on a specific named Echo device?
That’s a bummer. Is that a technical limitation? Or was that functionality not included (in the skill?) due to some other reason (licensing, costs, etc.)?
Just curious - how is it a limitation with the Echo device itself? Other music providers such as Pandora and SiriusXM can do it, and they are both an added third party skill. If it was a limitation of the device itself, it would seem that only Amazon Music would have this capability - unless Amazon built in special support for other music providers, which seems rather unlikely.
Yes they did. Look in your Alexa settings under Managed Services. You will see there is a set list of providers. Pandora and SiriusXM being in that list. Only these providers/skills are able to control playback on another Echo device.
Ahh ok. I wonder if Plex could make the list using funds from paying subscribers? Honestly, I’d dump some of the others if Plex could do this, since I have hundreds of CDs ripped and the experience is similar. I like the idea of owning the music and being able to do this would really be slick. I don’t mind maintaining a private cloud of music, and I have it synced to OneDrive for backup.
