control Amazon Alexa from command Line
The settings can now be controlled via environment variables.
EMAIL - your login email
PASSWORD - your login password
BROWSER - the User-Agent your browser sends in the request header
LANGUAGE - the Accept-Language your browser sends in the request header
AMAZON - your Amazon domain
ALEXA - the URL you would use for the Alexa Web App
CURL - location of your cURL binary
OPTS - any cURL options you require
TMP - location of the temp dir
OATHTOOL - command line for oathtool MFA
MFA_SECRET- the MFA secret
SPEAKVOL - the volume for speak messages
You will very likely want to set the language to:
export LANGUAGE='de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3'
alexa-remote-control [-d <device>|ALL] -e <pause|play|next|prev|fwd|rwd|shuffle|repeat|vol:<0-100>> |
-b [list|<"AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF">] | -q | -r <"station name"|stationid> |
-s <trackID|'Artist' 'Album'> | -t <ASIN> | -u <seedID> | -v <queueID> |
-w <playlistId> | -i | -p | -P | -S | -a | -l | -h |
-m <multiroom_device> [device_1 .. device_X] | -lastalexa
-e : run command, additional SEQUENCECMDs:
weather,traffic,flashbriefing,goodmorning,singasong,tellstory,
speak:'<text>',automation:'<routine name>'
-b : connect/disconnect/list bluetooth device
-q : query queue
-r : play tunein radio
-s : play library track/library album
-t : play Prime playlist
-u : play Prime station
-v : play Prime historical queue
-w : play library playlist
-i : list imported library tracks
-p : list purchased library tracks
-P : list Prime playlists
-S : list Prime stations
-a : list available devices
-m : delete multiroom and/or create new multiroom containing devices
-lastalexa : print device that received the last voice command
-l : logoff
-h : help
There's also a "plain" version, which lacks some functionality (-i, -p, -P, -S and no radio station names and no routines) but doesn't require 'jq' for JSON processing.
In order to use MFA, one needs to obtain the MFA_SECRET from Amazon account:
- You should have MFA using an App already working before proceeding
- Add a new app
- When presented with the QR-code select "can't scan code"
- You will be presented with the MFA shared secret, something like
1234 5678 9ABC DEFG HIJK LMNO PQRS TUVW XYZ0 1234 5678 9ABC DEFG - Now you have to generate a valid response code via
oathtool -b --totp "<MFA shared secret from above>"and enter that in the web form - Going from here the MFA shared secret becomes the MFA_SECRET for the alexa_remote_control script Treat that MFA_SCECRET just like your password - DO NOT share it anywhere!!!
It is assumed that MFA secured accounts are less likely to get a captcha response during login - that's why MFA might yield better results if the plain username/password didn't work for you.
http://blog.loetzimmer.de/2017/10/amazon-alexa-hort-auf-die-shell-echo.html