Using MyMusic with separate Alexa Account in one household
If you want to use Roomskills Local Connect with separate Alexa Accounts in one household you can share the service from one account to the other. Both Alexa users have to have a coresponding user on Roomskills and both Users need to have the MyMusic Alexa skill activated. Then you open the service details of the service that should be shared and enter the email address of the user that should get access to the service. Under the user that should get access to the service you create a new service from the type “Shared Service” and enter the email adress of the giving user.
Playing music from your library from outside your local network
In general you can play your local music collection from outside your network. But in order to do so you need to make Roomskills Local Connect accessible from outside your network. This is done by a so called port forwarding on your Internet Router. We suggest, that you only setup the port forwarding if you have some experience in Network Security and know what you are doing, when opening access to Roonskills Local Connect though your Internet Router. Roomskills Local Connect is set-up in a way, that the music from the music server is provided only for a few hours through the URL only given to the Echo player. Therefore there are not much reasons not to expose the required port to the internet, but still you should know what you are doing to make sure there is nothing else exposed to the Internet through the process.
Here the required steps:
- First you have to make sure your Internet Router has a fixed address in the internet. The key word here is DynDNS. A lot of Routers provide the funktionality, so please find out how to establish a DynDNS address for your router.
- Then you have to forward the port 32656 from the outside to the port 32656 on the computer running Roomskills Local Connect.
- The last step is to configure Roomskills Local Connect to use the external address by entering the address in the form ‘http://<DynDNS-address of the router>:32656’ into the field Local Connect App Alexa URL.
That was it – have fun using MyMusic Echo from outside your local network!
I say a voice command and nothing happens
There are different possible reasons:
- Maybe the voice command was not correct, so please check our list of the valid voice commmands here on this page.
- Another possibility is, that your are using an Alexa enabled device but not an Amazon Echo speaker. Unfortunately direct music playing is only possible on Echo speaker and not on Alexa enabled devices like the Sonos speaker. If you are using a Sonos device please check out our product Musiccontrol Sonos.
I say a voice command and the skill answers ‘… coming right away’, but nothing else happens
The most probable reason is, that the link to play the music is not set correctly. Please check the setup in Roomskills Local Connect. One possible reason is, that the computer running Roomskills Local Connect has now a different IP address assigned by your internet router.
Playing with the skill to multiple Echo speakers does not work
Unfortunately Amazon Alexa does not support the multi room function of their speakers for custom skills. It might sometimes might still work and it worth a try. But there os nosthing we can do about this.
I say a voice command and the skill answers ‘There has been a problem with the answer of the skill’
This means the skill encountred a problem, when processing the request. Please check the connection of the skill with Roomskills Local Connect on the Roomskills website by clicking on the button “check connection” in the service details.
I say a voice command and the skill answers ‘The skill didn’t answer in the required time’
This means the skill needed more time to answer your request than is necessary by the skill. Please check your local systems like the music server if they are running as expected. One possible reasons might be, that the music server is still indexing your music library. In this canse please wait until the indexing is finished and try again.
All that did’t answer my question!
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