Amazon Fire HD 8 and Amazon Fire Stick compatibility

[diegolz83]

I updated the Alexa media player to version 3.4.5 and it stopped detecting my Fire tablet and Fire Stick Tv devices. When I went back to version 3.4.1 the problem was fixed.

[alandtse]

We now only include devices as media players that report they have the capability to play music. Please provide the CAPABILITIES key from https://alexa.amazon.com/api/devices-v2/device for those devices.

[alandtse]

Also, what do you use them for?

[SchmDan]

I've the same issue. I use a wall mounted Fire Tablet with integrated Alexa for actionable notifications (alexa_actions). This extention relies on alexa_media_player and the device doesn't need the capability to play music. Moreover i use the tablet for making announcements via the notification component provided by alexa_media_player. This worked like charm until this change (b9df09d. I'd love if this would be more customisable. Like a whitelist of devices which should be always included, even without the music capability.

[SchmDan]

This is the object of my tablet (I've deleted all the id's)

{
    "accountName": "Dashboard",
    "appDeviceList": [],
    "capabilities": [
        "TIMERS_AND_ALARMS",
        "PERSISTENT_CONNECTION",
        "MICROPHONE",
        "SOUND_SETTINGS",
        "NO_TIME_ZONE_SETTING",
        "SUPPORTS_LOCALE",
        "REMINDERS",
        "CUSTOM_ALARM_TONE",
        "ASX_TIME_ZONE",
        "ASCENDING_ALARM_VOLUME",
        "DIALOG_INTERFACE_VERSION",
        "SUPPORTS_SOFTWARE_VERSION",
        "VOLUME_SETTING",
        "SUPPORTS_LOCALE_SWITCH"
    ],
    "charging": null,
    "clusterMembers": [],
    "deviceFamily": "TABLET",
    "deviceTypeFriendlyName": null,
    "essid": null,
    "language": null,
    "macAddress": null,
    "online": true,
    "parentClusters": [],
    "postalCode": null,
    "registrationId": null,
    "remainingBatteryLevel": null
}

[Duke-Box]

If this is correct then then this is an issue for me too.
I use the notify.alexa_media service a lot for announcements and some of my devices are tablets.
I have not upgraded to 3.4.5 yet as when I do, I cannot get past the authentication which I presume is because I don't use 2FA as it isn't mandatory ( is it now mandatory and that is why I can't get 3.4.5 to work?)
I am back on 3.4.1

Here is the capabilities key etc. of one of my tablets

"capabilities":[
"CUSTOM_ALARM_TONE",
"SUPPORTS_LOCALE_SWITCH",
"MICROPHONE",
"ASCENDING_ALARM_VOLUME",
"SOUND_SETTINGS",
"NO_TIME_ZONE_SETTING",
"REMINDERS",
"SUPPORTS_SOFTWARE_VERSION",
"SUPPORTS_LOCALE",
"ASX_TIME_ZONE",
"DIALOG_INTERFACE_VERSION",
"VOLUME_SETTING",
"TIMERS_AND_ALARMS",
"PERSISTENT_CONNECTION"
],
"charging":null,
"clusterMembers":[],
"deviceAccountId":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"deviceFamily":"TABLET",
"deviceOwnerCustomerId":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"deviceType":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"deviceTypeFriendlyName":null,
"essid":null,
"language":null,
"macAddress":null,
"online":false,
"parentClusters":[],
"postalCode":null,
"registrationId":null,
"remainingBatteryLevel":null,
"serialNumber":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"softwareVersion":"659655920"},

[alandtse]

PR should cover the tablets but still need Fire Stick info. Include_devices will override the capability filter too.