alexa-radio
Alexa Radio Skill that lets you add your favourite streaming stations using a web page (by balsimpson)
alexa-video
Alexa Video Skill that lets you add your favorite video streaming channels using a web page (by NovaGL)
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alexa-radio
Posts with mentions or reviews of alexa-radio.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.
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Autocode free limit not enough for Alexa Radio and Alexa Video
The excellent self-build skills https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio and https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video use Autocode. Unfortunately, Autocode's free service of 1000 requests doesn't last very long, a matter of days. To upgrade it's $20/month, which isn't worth it for me. Anybody clever enough to know of a free Autocode alternative and re-write the code?
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When Alexa won't stop, use sleep
I mostly use three skills to play radio and watch TV. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RKCN3CN, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video. I tried calling stations with other better known apps, station starts playing but it still wouldn't stop.
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Possible to extend bluetooth vinyl player to group?
Looks like one can't use https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio as it's a local http address. You can use a gist to convert a WAN address from http to https but not a LAN address. If anybody knows a way, please post?
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Why do some Alexa devices work to play a local radio station and not others?
Or build your own, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, and add the stream url's you can find on https://www.radio-browser.info/search?page=1&order=clickcount&reverse=true&hidebroken=true&name=maine. As always, easier to use routines.
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How to play BBC World Service Live on Echo (in USA, if it matters)
As an alternative to Tunein, just in case. Build your own skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, and add this stream, https://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service.
- Disable TuneIn „prefix“
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Broadcast news feed to multi-room setup?
I don't know how to hand-off to another echo. What I do is start playing something on a speaker group then shout out the news station I want to listen to. Unfortunately, the speaker group can only do audio, not video. So although I can play video (BBC, CNN, Sky, etc.) using the video skill, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video, on a single Echo Show, I have to ask the radio skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, to play the TV channel to get audio playing on all the devices (echos and dots) in the rooms I will be in.
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Replacing an FM Radio with an Alexa Device - Questions
You have to install https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio as your own radio skill. Get your mug of tea and read it slowly, will take you 20mins max. Very good instructions. Then add the stream and label it "W FAN" or whatever you desire. So you shout, "Alexa, ask radio to play W FAN". I've just done it and it works fine. It is geo-blocked but I use a smartdns on my router. As suggested, use a routine to call it, "Alexa, play W FAN".
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Play a Custom MP3 in Routine?
You can build your own skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, and create a 'station' with the https url of the mp3.
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What skill/app will allow me to listen to Canadian campus radio?
At the bottom of https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio note the message about having to use gists with http links. I just used a gist for the CJSR http link, https://www.radio-browser.info/#/history/961a1782-0601-11e8-ae97-52543be04c81, and it worked fine.
alexa-video
Posts with mentions or reviews of alexa-video.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-10.
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Autocode free limit not enough for Alexa Radio and Alexa Video
The excellent self-build skills https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio and https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video use Autocode. Unfortunately, Autocode's free service of 1000 requests doesn't last very long, a matter of days. To upgrade it's $20/month, which isn't worth it for me. Anybody clever enough to know of a free Autocode alternative and re-write the code?
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When Alexa won't stop, use sleep
I mostly use three skills to play radio and watch TV. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09RKCN3CN, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video. I tried calling stations with other better known apps, station starts playing but it still wouldn't stop.
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CNN radio shutting off
I don't use Tunein, go direct with radio-browser skill to listen when I don't want video (at night or dot), use https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video to watch on echo 5. https://cnn-cnninternational-1-eu.rakuten.wurl.tv/playlist.m3u8. Find other tv streams here, https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/tree/master/streams.
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Watching CNN on Alexa Show with Alexa Routine
Install https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video and add your channels.
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Broadcast news feed to multi-room setup?
I don't know how to hand-off to another echo. What I do is start playing something on a speaker group then shout out the news station I want to listen to. Unfortunately, the speaker group can only do audio, not video. So although I can play video (BBC, CNN, Sky, etc.) using the video skill, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video, on a single Echo Show, I have to ask the radio skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, to play the TV channel to get audio playing on all the devices (echos and dots) in the rooms I will be in.
- Play a Custom MP3 in Routine?
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Echo show new flash briefing
You can try news from Reuters. Or you can install https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video and get BBC and Sky UK streams from https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/blob/master/channels/uk.m3u. If outside UK, you need to use smartdns servers in your Show or router BBC
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Why does MSNBC keep going missing?
If you have an Echo, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video and watch stations. I have about 30 news channels listed. TV streams from https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv/tree/master/channels.
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Continuous streaming of tv shows /movies on Amazon Show?
Add radio and videao skills, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio and https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video.
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Echo auto not starting radio stream
Good enough that I have about 30 radio stations listed.:) In some instances it's used as the primary source, and others as a backup. There is also a sister skill for video which I use to play news stations from all over the place, https://github.com/NovaGL/alexa-video.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing alexa-radio and alexa-video you can also consider the following projects:
node-red-contrib-alexa-remote-cakebaked - Forked for me and the community to keep dependencies up to date :)
iptv - Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
WebFundamentals - Former git repo for WebFundamentals on developers.google.com
remark - A simple, in-browser, markdown-driven slideshow tool.
to-markdown - 🛏 An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript
intercooler-js - Making AJAX as easy as anchor tags
AlexaPcStreaming - Send your PC Audio to Alexa with Multiroom support!