alexa-radio VS node-red-contrib-alexa-remote-cakebaked

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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".

You can build your own skill, https://github.com/balsimpson/alexa-radio, and create a 'station' with the https url of the mp3.

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.

I have updated the article with instructions on how to change over the to node-red-contrib-alexa-cakebaked so you can enjoy your existing flows without breaking changes. If you are new to Alexa and NodeRED - everything else in the tutorial applies as the functions and the name of the nodes remains the same: https://notenoughtech.com/home-automation/alexaremote2/