Alexa not saying voice reply

Dave Johnson

I'm trying to get alexa to pronounce a voice reply after she executes a command, not having much luck:)

I've got the following command on my raspberry pi:

{"trigger":"Heating","command":"/home/pi/triggercmd/heating.sh","ground":"background","voice":"heating","voiceReply":"{{result}}","allowParams": "true"}

I've updated my heating.sh script to run sendresult.sh and return an appropriate result, and I can see the result has been sent successfully in the triggercmd run list. The result is sent well within the 5 second limit.

Alexa doesn't say anything though after executing the command.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Dave.

Russ

@Dave-Johnson, please confirm you're using the original Alexa skill, not the Smart Home version.

I just tested it using this skill by saying, Alexa, ask TRIGGERcmd to run result.

And I heard Alexa say, "result is 19."

This is my command entry:

 {
  "trigger": "result",
  "command": "python d:\\result.py",
  "offCommand": "",
  "ground": "foreground",
  "voice": "result",
  "voiceReply": "result is {{result}}",
  "allowParams": "false"
 },

This is my python script:

import os
result = 'Nineteen'
sts = os.system(os.environ['USERPROFILE'] + "\\.TRIGGERcmdData\\SendResult.bat "+str(result))

Dave Johnson

Thanks for the reply Russ. I'm using the smart home version, I take it voice replies aren't supported by this?
I'll give the other version a go!
Cheers,
Dave

Russ

@Dave-Johnson, that's correct - the Smart Home version does a better job of matching what you say with your commands because Amazon has a list of your commands ahead of time, but unfortunately it can't support that Voice Reply feature.