Is it possible to use Roon & Alexa?

[BlackJack]

@Filipe_Cunha

Do you know of a blog that shows what steps I need to do?

If that were the case, i’d had done so.

Main Thread:

Alexa voice control

Now that the Amazon API is available, it would be fun to control Roon via Alexa. “Alexa, next track on Roon” or “Alexa, play <artist / album> on Roon in the living room” etc.

Excerpt which tells the official state of things

Alexa voice control

This project is in the back burner… It never worked well… Alexa seems to fail badly when music is playing, and the fact that Roon sounds like Room makes it even worse. We could release it, but it’d be a very poor product. Additionally, no one on our team would want to live with it, so it would slowly wither and just be a sore spot for Roon members who would expect a high quality product. The idea is great, but the implementation isn’t there… We will revisit with future software upd…

Tinkering:

My vision, thoughts?

Hi fellow tinkerer. This is absolutely doable. In fact on my own setup, i’m able to use Alexa to switch on all required components and resume Roon playback automatically. I’m also able to search for an artist and start playing the tracks using Alexa. My components: Roon running on a Windows 10 PC (on via WOL, off via powershell script, Roon control via custom Alexa skill) AV Receiver Pioneer VSX-921 (on/off, volume, input selection controlled via network interface) Klipsch R15-PM active speak…

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