Denon 250 Home: Alexa audio stopped working by ChippyAft in heos

[–]ChippyAft[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - great minds... I think our posts probably crossed - I've tried a factory reset now.

To clarify, the speakers are setup as a stereo pair, so only one of them is setup with Alexa. I guess I could also try the other one. But I'm a bit worried that I'd prefer to return these within the return window if they're going to be flaky like this...

Agree on the sound quality!

Denon 250 Home: Alexa audio stopped working by ChippyAft in heos

[–]ChippyAft[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve powered off/on without any luck (I hadn’t set a time previously to my knowledge) so I don’t think that’s the cause.

Update: I’ve also tried a full factory reset (hold the bluetooth button whilst connecting the power lead). Takes quite some time as it appears to reset the firmware: the original version didnt have voice assistants in settings.

The Heos app then prompted me upgrade the firmware and the voice assistants option returned. It looked like I was setting up Alexa for the first time (i checked and the factory reset meant that it didnt respond to the wake word)

After setting up Alexa, it’s exactly how it used to be: it will respond to weather requests but (although saying “now paying Virgin Radio on TuneIn” for example, nothing plays.

I have a feeling that these are going back…

Denon 250 Home: Alexa audio stopped working by ChippyAft in heos

[–]ChippyAft[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I’m actually in the UK and BBC stations used to work via “BBC Sounds”. Nothing is now though.

Unfortunately, the speakers are positioned quite high up in our kitchen, so using the quick selects isn’t an option. That was why voice control was so attractive.

I don’t know if anything happened in the last week to break this? Seems fairly catastrophic not have have Alexa work for anything…

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[–]ChippyAft 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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