brett england
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

I have an alternative idea to achieve the same without any coding.
Pair you computer with the echo over bluetooth.
Set your computers audio to use Alexa as its speaker over bluetooth.
Fire up a browser to your plex media server and mark it so that other applications can fling content at at. Ask Alexa to control this browser.
“Alexa ask plex to change my player” tell it to use your browser.
Now all you have to do is
“Alexa ask plex to play Def Leppard”
and it will communicate with your browser on your computer and play the media which will redirect the audio back to the Alexa speaker.
Bingo plex music on your Echo speaker controlled with Alexa.
Not quite as elegant but doable…

There seems to be some breakages with the flask_ask as amazon have changed the format of a timestamp which breaks your code.
https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask/issues/152

When I tried to set this up I ran smack bang into this :(