Plex for Alexa - German Plex Pass Beta

yes. i know. but this is a mayor problem. it makes the audio part quite useless. at least for me :slight_smile:

i don’t see a reason a custom skill could not initiate playback to sonos if a player is given in the speech command. this would be quite the same as controlling a plex player for video on a tv.

It’s possible we’ll create our own custom integration in the future with Sonos but we have no current plans. But it wouldn’t interface with your Alexa settings at all. I wish it just worked too :slight_smile:

That’s the problem with these Alexa skills. Amazon adds more and more capabilities, but still … you fall over biiig rocks every step you do. I am quite sure that’s the problem with the Spotify skill, too. You can not control another player, only play the stuff on your Echo. Sounds familiar. Anyways, it’s still a bit silly from time to time, but does something, even on english titles. Not bad I say ^^

Läuft im Wesentlichen sehr gut das Skill. Zumindest wenn man mit Wiedergabelisten arbeitet, spielt Alexa es recht zuverlässig ab. Getestet jetzt auf Echo und Echo Show. Auch die Wiedergabeliste von TIDAL übertragen läuft :heart_eyes:
Könnte eigentlich freigegeben werden. Meine Meinung.

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Are there still invites to the Beta skill, that are processed by your team?
The direct link always says, that I am not approved to see the beta skill.
@vanstinator I would love to test the skill :sweat_smile:

I am very interested in the currently available German commands. Will you share what you have found out yet?
I recently discovered that on-deck and aktuell equals…

To all beta users: can we somewhere collect the German command’s that were discovered?
I have tried several attempts to continue an episode from modern family’s where i stopped the day before…
Can you help me out?
Alexa, sage plex mit modern families fortzufahren
Alexs, sage plex setze die Serie modern families fort.
Alexa, sage plex weiter zu machen…

Doesn’t work…

Just ask the German equivalent of ask plex to play modern family. The skill should intelligently detect you’re partway through an episode and confirm you’d like to resume.

We’ve sent out another round of invites today. Please opt-in to the beta here: https://skills-store.amazon.com/deeplink/tvt/7d557f069b337f31cac0d6f94b1769d296820814f49e610e971d83e39232219891dedead754d9847639906a7ab145e02a80296b339bce85cf7887c2da5ffe7c88a09fc2cb3ec722fa952969c73b795225386806cc6a3545e43315add8ac1bfa12591016b6860da89417b715d3f37896f

Thank you for your help. Somehow alexa ignores the keyword plex and starts instead netflix and olays modern family from there…

Even i am in the plex app it will quit plex and start netflix.

I checked in the alexa chat history that alexa recognized my command correctly…
I will investigate later and try the same with other series as well.

I know there were some time ago a questionary where the community was asked to translate the english commands…
Do you have an overview what the content was?
In my experiments i just went through the list of commands found in the link some posts above. Somehow I can’t use most of them, so i think i am using wrong commands…

Is there a list where i can lookup what the German equal for a given English command should be?

PS:
Any idea why alexa chooses to start netflix and run e.g. Modern Family from there, instead of plex?

If you’d like to help translate I can add you to a translation group that has access to the internal docs.

No sorry :frowning: That would seem to be Alexa invoking the incorrect skill.

Yes, please invite me to the translation group…
I remember the call out, but after registering i believe the site said translation was done…

Nevertheless, yes i’d like to get a better understanding and would also like to create a first draft for an article to provide to the community.

Hi
I can help too!

Happy New Year!

I checked my email but didn’t find any information or invitation. Is there a link to the translation group?

BR
Ingo Pohl

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Hi, I’m urgently awaiting the skill as well. But my use case is not so much controlling what to play via voice as I expect it will be complicated for my kids to hit the right wording. More important would be the possibility to use alexas as streaming output controlled by a plex web player (similar to google cast). Is that possible with the skill or will I be only able to play to alexa by speech command?

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Already told my Plex Player on my PC via the skill what to do and it happily did so. Just use the name of your player/device (in my case both is the same). Works this way: “Alexa, sage Plex: Spiele Overlord, Season 3 Folge 1 auf Reimi-PC” well… sometimes at least :stuck_out_tongue: Multi language detection is a flaw of the whole Alexa skill environment. If you wanna play a movie/series with an english name… try Denglisch aka german way to speak a english word if it fails to open the right thing.

I’ve requested the acces but but I’m not enable yet

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Givs a way to get the beta without the Sign up? I have try and sign up a few days bevore, But allready no luck to get the skill with the Opt in link

Hi @vanstinator,
is it possible to get another round for new beta sign-ups?
That would be very cool :slight_smile:
Thanks,
Matze

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