Trouble getting advanced mode to work

[jzajac2]

I have the standard presets working, however as soon as I add environment variable ADVANCED_MODE = false (not even enabling it), even the standard presets mode no longer works.

I am using a lambda_basic_execution role with AmazonSQSFullAccess and AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess:

as suggested by this closed issue: https://github.com/rgraciano/echo-sonos/issues/78

However alexa's response is "There was a problem with the requested skill's response" (with or without ADVANCED_MODE set to true or false in my aws env vars console). Further, using the "Enter Utterance" of "alexa, ask sonos to resume" (after successfully asking it to stop before I put in the Advanced Mode env var) returns lambda response: The remote endpoint could not be called, or the response it returned was invalid.

I'm sure I just need to be educated.. If I have advanced mode enabled and DEFAULT_MUSIC_SERVICE = spotify in env vars in my aws lambda, do I need to also connect Spotify to my echo dot device? (I've tried both ways, no dice).

Very cool stuff here..almost there, just need a little more help

[rgraciano]

guessing that this is all working now, since I saw you helping on another thread?

[jzajac2]

Maybe I don't understand how it works. If I can simply say "Alexa ask sonos to turn repeat on" (without saying which room), is that the extent of 'Advanced Mode"?

Looking at #3 in the docs:
Take the node-sonos-http-api/presets.json that I have here and drop it into the "presets" folder in your node-sonos-http-api root directory. Modify it to use your speaker names and your favorite stations. Make sure the preset names are lowercase (like "test" and "rock" in my example). NOTE: You can skip this step if you only want to use Playlists, Favorites, or Advanced Mode, which require no configuration.

So - without any preset defined, I can simply utter 'Alexa ask sonos to play {Sonos Favorite Name} this will also work.

I think I got this mixed up with DEFAULT_MUSIC_SERVICE - not clear how that works. So this case is closed but I'll probably open one for DEFAULT_MUSIC_SERVICE if I can't figure it out.