how to send text command ?

[darkworks]

how to send text command ?

[Apollon77]

That the documentation is not good is completely agreed :-) IOn fact the types file contains a bit in that direction

In fact after initialization you need the serialnumber of the device you want to send the command to (or the right device object). then call

alexa.sendSequenceCommand(serialOrDeviceObject, 'textCommand', 'What time is it', (err, res) => {
 ....
})

[Apollon77]

could be DSN ... best check the alexa.serialNumbers list for the device details (you find objects in there that have all details)

[Apollon77]

https://github.com/Apollon77/alexa-remote/blob/master/example/example.js#L36 there you find the object you need to store and provide in formerRegistrationData and the value of the subkey "macDms" you hand over as macDms

[Apollon77]

no there is no response because this command just sends a command into the amazon cloud.
Please have in mind it is the same API that the amazon Alexa app uses ... so it only can do what the app can!!

For response you need to provide macDMS correctly and then you can especblish a wsmwtt connection and react to events for push informations ... one type are "device activities" ... there you can find the answers ... and it is no "direct 1:1 way" ... but how this all works I have no documentation, just "reality implementations" ... so check out this as satrting point https://github.com/Apollon77/ioBroker.alexa2/blob/master/main.js#L4658-L4664 ...

[darkworks]

Hi , so i have connected alexa to web as guided here : http://www.gehrig.info/alexa/Alexa.html

i got cookie from it but looks like the init block need some more info

alexa.init({
        cookie: cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy
        proxyOnly: true,
        proxyOwnIp: 'localhost',
        proxyPort: 3001,
        proxyLogLevel: 'info',
        bluetooth: true,
        logger: console.log, // optional
        alexaServiceHost: 'layla.amazon.de', // optional, e.g. "pitangui.amazon.com" for amazon.com, default is "layla.amazon.de"
//        userAgent: '...', // optional, override used user-Agent for all Requests and Cookie determination
//        acceptLanguage: '...', // optional, override Accept-Language-Header for cookie determination
//        amazonPage: '...', // optional, override Amazon-Login-Page for cookie determination and referer for requests
        useWsMqtt: true, // optional, true to use the Websocket/MQTT direct push connection
        cookieRefreshInterval: 7*24*60*1000, // optional, cookie refresh intervall, set to 0 to disable refresh
        formerDataStorePath: '...', // optional: overwrite path where some of the formerRegistrationData are persisted to optimize against Amazon security measures
        formerRegistrationData: { ... }, // optional/preferred: provide the result object from subsequent proxy usages here and some generated data will be reused for next proxy call too
        macDms: { ... }, // required since version 4.0 to use Push connection! Is returned in cookieData.macDms
    },

so can u guide on these three specially macDms which is required

        formerDataStorePath: '...', // optional: overwrite path where some of the formerRegistrationData are persisted to optimize against Amazon security measures
        formerRegistrationData: { ... }, // optional/preferred: provide the result object from subsequent proxy usages here and some generated data will be reused for next proxy call too
        macDms: { ... }, // required since version 4.0 to use Push connection! Is returned in cookieData.macDms

thanks

[Apollon77]

• macDMS is needed if you want to use the wsMQTT push connection to receive piush messages from alexa actions. Else irrelevant.
• formerRegistrationData are needed when you get the cookie via this lib and also want to do the refresh of the cookie over it because there important infos from the cookie gathering process are stored whcih are needed for refreshs
• formerDataStorePath is used to store some basic data fropm the cookei gathering process (like a unique device id) so that this is reused even if you get new cookies without providing formerRegistrationData

[darkworks]

• macDMS is needed if you want to use the wsMQTT push connection to receive piush messages from alexa actions. Else irrelevant.
• formerRegistrationData are needed when you get the cookie via this lib and also want to do the refresh of the cookie over it because there important infos from the cookie gathering process are stored whcih are needed for refreshs
• formerDataStorePath is used to store some basic data fropm the cookei gathering process (like a unique device id) so that this is reused even if you get new cookies without providing formerRegistrationData

ok so i have set these 3 parameters to blank "" as am not sure how to set them correctly or get their values.

so now when i run node index.js giving me error

Alexa-Remote: Use as User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0
Alexa-Remote: Use as Login-Amazon-URL: amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: Use as Base-URL: layla.amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: cookie was provided
Alexa-Remote: Sending Request with {"host":"layla.amazon.de","path":"/api/bootstrap?version=0","method":"GET","timeout":10000,"headers":{}}
Alexa-Remote: Response: 401 Unauthorized
Error: Error while checking Authentication: Error: 401 Unauthorized

maybe something wrong with host ? the .de seems its not for US , can u tell which host is for US. is it alexa.amazon.com ?

[Apollon77]

No, before setting them to black strings please simply do not provide them /optionally means exactly this).

In fact the path you can simply set to a valid path where the prociess could store file

The other two are "alexa.cookieData" and "alexa.cookieData.macDms" and best to store it after getting the cookie with the proxy.

Please do not provide alexaServiceHost when it is german default ... does it work then?

Seems I need to update the example

[darkworks]

ok i have set paths

        formerDataStorePath: './storage/', // optional: overwrite path where some of the formerRegistrationData are persisted to optimize against Amazon security measures
        formerRegistrationData: "./storage/alexa.cookieData", // optional/preferred: provide the result object from subsequent proxy usages here and some generated data will be reused for next proxy call too
        macDms: "./storage/alexa.cookieData.macDms", // required since version 4.0 to use Push connection! Is returned in cookieData.macDms

now it seems working in storage folder it created alexa.cookieData file

[darkworks]

now it seems working but i have to go to http://localhost:3001 every time when i run script and login and then it will fetch cookie . so what can be done about it so that it save cookie

Alexa-Remote: Use as Login-Amazon-URL: amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: Use as Base-URL: alexa.amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: cookie was provided
Alexa-Remote: former registration data exist, try refresh
"./storage/alexa.cookieData"
Alexa-Remote: Error from refreshing cookies
Alexa-Remote: No cookie given, generate one
Alexa-Cookie: Use as Login-Amazon-URL: amazon.de
Alexa-Cookie: Use as Base-Amazon-URL: amazon.com
Alexa-Cookie: Use as Accept-Language: de-DE
Alexa-Cookie: Proxy mode disabled
[HPM] Proxy created: !/cookie-success  -> https://alexa.amazon.com
[HPM] Proxy rewrite rule created: "^/www.amazon.com" ~> ""
[HPM] Proxy rewrite rule created: "^/alexa.amazon.com" ~> ""
Alexa-Cookie: Proxy-Server listening on port 3001
Alexa-Remote: Error from retrieving cookies
Error: You can try to get the cookie manually by opening http://localhost:3001/ with your browser.

[Apollon77]

Sorry but what you did? Only the one parameter with "path" in Name is a path, the others should be data objects or not provided

[darkworks]

Sorry but what you did? Only the one parameter with "path" in Name is a path, the others should be data objects or not provided

my formerDataStorePath is set to

formerDataStorePath: './storage/alexa.cookieData',

you said that

the others should be data objects or not provided
so i have commented macDms.
however if comment formerRegistrationData i get Error: 401 Unauthorized unless its set to
formerRegistrationData: "alexa.cookieData" then i get no error and it just ask for
Error: You can try to get the cookie manually by opening http://localhost:3001/ with your browser.
after visiting when cookie is retrieved then it start working.
so my Question is what am doing wrong here so that i have not to visit http://localhost:3001/ for cookie every time i run script and sorry for the NOOOOBS Questions.

thanks

[darkworks]

i see , seems like i need to use your another project : https://github.com/Apollon77/alexa-cookie for the cookie issue. will check it :). just wondering this alexa-cookie module should be already part of alexa-remote ?

[Apollon77]

No you do not need. This is used by alexa-remote under the hood automatically ... see the proxy* Settings in alexa-remote

[darkworks]

No you do not need. This is used by alexa-remote under the hood automatically ... see the proxy* Settings in alexa-remote

ok then can u tell what am doing wrong :(

my formerDataStorePath is set to

formerDataStorePath: './storage/alexa.cookieData',

you said that

the others should be data objects or not provided
so i have commented macDms.
however if comment formerRegistrationData i get Error: 401 Unauthorized unless its set to
formerRegistrationData: "alexa.cookieData" then i get no error and it just ask for
Error: You can try to get the cookie manually by opening http://localhost:3001/ with your browser.
after visiting when cookie is retrieved then it start working.
so my Question is what am doing wrong here so that i have not to visit http://localhost:3001/ for cookie every time i run script and sorry for the NOOOOBS Questions.

thanks

[darkworks]

https://github.com/Apollon77/alexa-remote/blob/master/example/example.js#L36 there you find the object you need to store and provide in formerRegistrationData and the value of the subkey "macDms" you hand over as macDms

oh i see i was not writing these objects to disk , ok am now writing them but am still getting that error when i run the script again although cookie data and etc objects are written to disk and passed to formerRegistrationData

updated

// storage box path
const storage_box = "./storage/";

alexa.init({
        cookie: cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy
        proxyOnly: true,
        proxyOwnIp: 'localhost',
        proxyPort: 3001,
        proxyLogLevel: 'info',
        bluetooth: true,
        logger: console.log, // optional
       // alexaServiceHost: 'pitangui.amazon.com', // optional, e.g. "pitangui.amazon.com" for amazon.com, default is "layla.amazon.de"
//        userAgent: '...', // optional, override used user-Agent for all Requests and Cookie determination
//        acceptLanguage: '...', // optional, override Accept-Language-Header for cookie determination
//        amazonPage: '...', // optional, override Amazon-Login-Page for cookie determination and referer for requests
        useWsMqtt: false, // optional, true to use the Websocket/MQTT direct push connection
        cookieRefreshInterval: 7*24*60*1000, // optional, cookie refresh intervall, set to 0 to disable refresh
        formerDataStorePath: storage_box+"alexa.baseic_info", // optional: overwrite path where some of the formerRegistrationData are persisted to optimize against Amazon security measures
        formerRegistrationData: storage_box+"alexa.cookieData", // optional/preferred: provide the result object from subsequent proxy usages here and some generated data will be reused for next proxy call too
        macDms: storage_box+"alexa.cookieData.macDms", // required since version 4.0 to use Push connection! Is returned in cookieData.macDms
    },
    async function (err) {
        if (err) {
            console.log (err);
            return;
        }
		
		// write cookie data to disk
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookie', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookie));
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.csrf', JSON.stringify(alexa.csrf));
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData.macDms', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData.macDms));
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData));
        //fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData['loginCookie']));

error visit local to get cookie

Alexa-Remote: Use as User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0
Alexa-Remote: Use as Login-Amazon-URL: amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: Use as Base-URL: alexa.amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: cookie was provided
Alexa-Remote: former registration data exist, try refresh
"./storage/alexa.cookieData"
Alexa-Remote: Error from refreshing cookies
Alexa-Remote: No cookie given, generate one
Alexa-Cookie: Use as Login-Amazon-URL: amazon.de
Alexa-Cookie: Use as Base-Amazon-URL: amazon.com
Alexa-Cookie: Use as User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0
Alexa-Cookie: Use as Accept-Language: de-DE
Alexa-Cookie: Proxy mode disabled
[HPM] Proxy created: !/cookie-success  -> https://alexa.amazon.com
[HPM] Proxy rewrite rule created: "^/www.amazon.com" ~> ""
[HPM] Proxy rewrite rule created: "^/alexa.amazon.com" ~> ""
Alexa-Cookie: Proxy-Server listening on port 3001
Alexa-Remote: Error from retrieving cookies
Error: You can try to get the cookie manually by opening http://localhost:3001/ with your browser.

[Apollon77]

Again:

• formerDataStorePath is the ONLY one that is a path!
• formerRegistrationData and macDms needs to be the object! SO Read your data make JSON parse and provide the object

[darkworks]

Again:

• formerDataStorePath is the ONLY one that is a path!
• formerRegistrationData and macDms needs to be the object! SO Read your data make JSON parse and provide the object

ok i tried that too but now getting 401 error
Error: Error while checking Authentication: Error: 401 Unauthorized

what am doing is that i read and then parse it

// storage box path
const storage_box = "./storage/";
const Alexa_cookie_data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(storage_box+"alexa.cookieData", 'utf8'));
const Alexa_macDms = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(storage_box+"alexa.cookieData.macDms", 'utf8'));
const Alexa_cookie = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(storage_box+"alexa.cookie", 'utf8'));

alexa.init({
        cookie: cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy
        proxyOnly: true,
        proxyOwnIp: 'localhost',
        proxyPort: 3001,
        proxyLogLevel: 'info',
        bluetooth: true,
        logger: console.log, // optional
        //alexaServiceHost: 'pitangui.amazon.com', // optional, e.g. "pitangui.amazon.com" for amazon.com, default is "layla.amazon.de"
//        userAgent: '...', // optional, override used user-Agent for all Requests and Cookie determination
//        acceptLanguage: '...', // optional, override Accept-Language-Header for cookie determination
//        amazonPage: '...', // optional, override Amazon-Login-Page for cookie determination and referer for requests
        useWsMqtt: false, // optional, true to use the Websocket/MQTT direct push connection
        cookieRefreshInterval: 7*24*60*1000, // optional, cookie refresh intervall, set to 0 to disable refresh
        formerDataStorePath: storage_box+"alexa.baseic_info", // optional: overwrite path where some of the formerRegistrationData are persisted to optimize against Amazon security measures
        formerRegistrationData: Alexa_cookie_data, // optional/preferred: provide the result object from subsequent proxy usages here and some generated data will be reused for next proxy call too
        macDms: Alexa_macDms, // required since version 4.0 to use Push connection! Is returned in cookieData.macDms
    },
    async function (err) {
        if (err) {
            console.log (err);
            return;
        }
		
		// write cookie data to disk
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookie', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookie));
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData.macDms', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData.macDms));
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData));
        //fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData['loginCookie']));

[Apollon77]

Should

    cookie: cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy

not be

    cookie: Alexa_cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy

??

[Apollon77]

Aaaand ... example updated

[darkworks]

Should

    cookie: cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy

not be

    cookie: Alexa_cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy

??

ya its because i had pre fetched cookie as guided in : https://www.gehrig.info/alexa/Alexa.html and had declared it as var cookie = // fetched as guided in https://www.gehrig.info/alexa/Alexa.html

however i had even changed to
cookie: Alexa_cookie, // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy

but now getting 401

Alexa-Remote: Use as Login-Amazon-URL: amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: Use as Base-URL: alexa.amazon.de
Alexa-Remote: cookie was provided
Alexa-Remote: Sending Request with {"host":"alexa.amazon.de","path":"/api/bootstrap?version=0","method":"GET","timeout":10000,"headers":{}}
Alexa-Remote: Response: 401 Unauthorized
Error: Error while checking Authentication: Error: 401 Unauthorized
    at C:\Alexa\alexa-remote.js:153:49
    at C:\Alexa\alexa-remote.js:1080:28
    at handleResponse (C:\Alexa\alexa-remote.js:883:24)
    at Gunzip.cb (C:\Alexa\alexa-remote.js:1006:37)
    at Gunzip.zlibBufferOnEnd (node:zlib:161:10)
    at Gunzip.emit (node:events:390:28)
    at endReadableNT (node:internal/streams/readable:1343:12)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)

here is my full code of index.js can u have please look to see whats wrong ??

let Alexa = require('./alexa-remote');
let alexa = new Alexa();
const fs = require('fs');
/***************************************************************/

const timer = ms => new Promise( res => setTimeout(res, ms));

// storage box path
const storage_box = "./storage/";
const Alexa_cookie_data = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(storage_box+"alexa.cookieData", 'utf8'));
const Alexa_macDms = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(storage_box+"alexa.cookieData.macDms", 'utf8'));
const Alexa_cookie = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(storage_box+"alexa.cookie", 'utf8'));

alexa.init({
        cookie: Alexa_cookie,  // cookie if already known, else can be generated using proxy
        proxyOnly: true,
        proxyOwnIp: 'localhost',
        proxyPort: 3001,
        proxyLogLevel: 'info',
        bluetooth: false,
        logger: console.log, // optional
        //alexaServiceHost: 'pitangui.amazon.com', // optional, e.g. "pitangui.amazon.com" for amazon.com, default is "layla.amazon.de"
//        userAgent: '...', // optional, override used user-Agent for all Requests and Cookie determination
//        acceptLanguage: '...', // optional, override Accept-Language-Header for cookie determination
//        amazonPage: '...', // optional, override Amazon-Login-Page for cookie determination and referer for requests
        useWsMqtt: true, // optional, true to use the Websocket/MQTT direct push connection
        cookieRefreshInterval: 7*24*60*1000, // optional, cookie refresh intervall, set to 0 to disable refresh
        formerDataStorePath: storage_box+"alexa.baseic_info", // optional: overwrite path where some of the formerRegistrationData are persisted to optimize against Amazon security measures
        formerRegistrationData: Alexa_cookie_data, // optional/preferred: provide the result object from subsequent proxy usages here and some generated data will be reused for next proxy call too
        macDms: Alexa_macDms, // required since version 4.0 to use Push connection! Is returned in cookieData.macDms
    },
    async function (err) {
        if (err) {
            console.log (err);
            return;
        }
		
		// write cookie data to disk
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookie', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookie));
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData.macDms', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData.macDms));
		fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData));
        //fs.writeFileSync(storage_box+'alexa.cookieData', JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData['loginCookie']));
	   
	   // console.log(JSON.stringify(alexa.cookie));
       // console.log(JSON.stringify(alexa.csrf));
       // console.log(JSON.stringify(alexa.cookieData));
	   
	   // console.log(alexa);
	   
        for (let deviceSerial of Object.keys(alexa.serialNumbers)) {
            // console.log (deviceSerial);
        }
		
		console.log("\n sending command....");
		

    }
);

[Apollon77]

So you did the procexy process with the lib and now you get a 401? No idea what you do wrong ... please verify (maybe by logging) that the data are really the corrct one .. becaue 401 means that the cookie is not a valid session ... so something is strange

[darkworks]

So you did the procexy process with the lib and now you get a 401? No idea what you do wrong ... please verify (maybe by logging) that the data are really the corrct one .. becaue 401 means that the cookie is not a valid session ... so something is strange

ya logins creds are valid because when script ask to visit http://localhost:3001/ and i visit webpage and login then it fetch cookie and the script start working ok but on next restart it give 401 error with same saved cookie

[darkworks]

ok so finally problem is solved. now am not getting 401 unauthroized error.
after playing with it , i found cause of it , cause was : macDms dumped data. so by just passing macDms = "" blank not getting anymore 401.

thanks for the amazing support :)

[darkworks]

one another question how to get and parse Alexa reply , like if i ask alexa what time is it

			alexa.sendSequenceCommand(device_id, 'textCommand', 'What time is it', (err, res) => {
				console.log("command sent...");
				console.log(res);
			})

currently console.log(res); is just displaying { success: true } i guess here i should see alexa response that time is xxxxxxxxx