Simple example of how to make Alexa talk (TTS, Text To Speech) in Node Red with the ‘node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2’ palette.

You’ll have to change the account and cookie file to work with your setup. But this shows which nodes and fields to populate.

To send to all Echo devices, I use the device “Everywhere” (see the debug output of “Get Echo Devices”).

If you don’t hear anything, try “Refresh alexa remote2 cookie”. I have a flow that auto-refreshes the cookie every 2 hours.

How-to import node red code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uN–N7YE24

Import this code:

[
    {
        "id": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "type": "tab",
        "label": "Alexa TTS example",
        "disabled": false,
        "info": ""
    },
    {
        "id": "185e5c5.ca37da4",
        "type": "alexa-remote-init",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "Refresh alexa remote2 cookie",
        "account": "204c43f9.0e87dc",
        "option": "refresh",
        "x": 350,
        "y": 120,
        "wires": [
            [
                "ca0268c3.6a75b8"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "aa1de4f1.d53768",
        "type": "inject",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "Go",
        "topic": "",
        "payload": "",
        "payloadType": "date",
        "repeat": "",
        "crontab": "",
        "once": false,
        "onceDelay": 0.1,
        "x": 130,
        "y": 120,
        "wires": [
            [
                "185e5c5.ca37da4"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "ca0268c3.6a75b8",
        "type": "debug",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "",
        "active": true,
        "tosidebar": true,
        "console": false,
        "tostatus": false,
        "complete": "true",
        "targetType": "full",
        "x": 550,
        "y": 120,
        "wires": []
    },
    {
        "id": "573b246e.f1f59c",
        "type": "inject",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "Go",
        "topic": "",
        "payload": "",
        "payloadType": "date",
        "repeat": "",
        "crontab": "",
        "once": false,
        "onceDelay": 0.1,
        "x": 130,
        "y": 180,
        "wires": [
            [
                "772e0bd4.b6e5d4"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "772e0bd4.b6e5d4",
        "type": "alexa-remote-routine",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "\"Hello\", office Dot",
        "account": "204c43f9.0e87dc",
        "routineNode": {
            "type": "speak",
            "payload": {
                "type": "regular",
                "text": {
                    "type": "str",
                    "value": "Hello"
                },
                "devices": {
                    "type": "str",
                    "value": "DONN's Echo Dot"
                }
            }
        },
        "x": 330,
        "y": 180,
        "wires": [
            []
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "7b5e0b7b.f95e24",
        "type": "inject",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "Go",
        "topic": "",
        "payload": "",
        "payloadType": "date",
        "repeat": "",
        "crontab": "",
        "once": false,
        "onceDelay": 0.1,
        "x": 130,
        "y": 60,
        "wires": [
            [
                "f9cb8443.8252d8"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "f9cb8443.8252d8",
        "type": "alexa-remote-echo",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "",
        "account": "204c43f9.0e87dc",
        "config": {
            "option": "get",
            "value": {
                "what": "device",
                "device": {
                    "type": "str",
                    "value": "ALEXA_ALL_DSN"
                }
            }
        },
        "x": 290,
        "y": 60,
        "wires": [
            [
                "e48dfccc.4bd7"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "e48dfccc.4bd7",
        "type": "debug",
        "z": "d327c2c8.b617a",
        "name": "",
        "active": true,
        "tosidebar": true,
        "console": false,
        "tostatus": false,
        "complete": "true",
        "targetType": "full",
        "x": 450,
        "y": 60,
        "wires": []
    },
    {
        "id": "204c43f9.0e87dc",
        "type": "alexa-remote-account",
        "z": "",
        "name": "D acct",
        "authMethod": "proxy",
        "proxyOwnIp": "172.16.0.203",
        "proxyPort": "3457",
        "cookieFile": "/config/alexa_cookies2.txt",
        "refreshInterval": "3",
        "alexaServiceHost": "pitangui.amazon.com",
        "amazonPage": "amazon.com",
        "acceptLanguage": "en-US",
        "userAgent": "",
        "useWsMqtt": "on",
        "autoInit": "on"
    }
]

For SSML examples, see: https://github.com/586837r/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/blob/master/examples.md

Detailed video howto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj9K0O_3zxI

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