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#2479616 9-May-2020 09:01

This is really frustrating me. Rnz must have broken something on their back end. And I can’t play rnz National Auckland via a routine.

has anyone got rnz working on iHeartRadio on Alexa?

ive had to pull out the google home again ! And we had progressively gone to almost all alexas (6 in the house)

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#2479617 9-May-2020 09:03

stocksp:
This is really frustrating me. Rnz must have broken something on their back end. And I can’t play rnz National Auckland via a routine.

has anyone got rnz working on iHeartRadio on Alexa?

ive had to pull out the google home again ! And we had progressively gone to almost all alexas (6 in the house)

The above work around worked for me. But actually 10 min later I realised it was playing replay radio and it went back to its usual programming - it actually played RNZ Pacific to me instead.

bongojona

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#2479623 9-May-2020 09:21

Setup 'mytuner radio' skill via the app and then say 'Alexa, ask mytuner radio to play RNZ national'

I am istening to Kim Hill now

It's the TuneIn skill that's causing an issue

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#2479625 9-May-2020 09:24

OP here. I confirm that this routine now calls up Radio NZ Pacific. Sigh.

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#2479632 9-May-2020 09:29

Looked at MyRadio skill but as it's not a music source I could not get it to 'invoke' Radio NZ National. A silly Alexa routines weakness, ie you can call a skill but cant pass it any variables.

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#2479635 9-May-2020 09:33

How do we report this to rnz?

bongojona

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#2479647 9-May-2020 10:12

Mytuner radio is working for me I've been listening to Kim Hill this morning.

prob

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#2479661 9-May-2020 11:01

Yes it works if you tell Alexa to play RNZ using MyRadio but not if you do so via a routine. The point of the exercise is to be able to say "alexa play radio" and get RNZ National.

dunnersdude

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#2479663 9-May-2020 11:06

Anyone know why iHeartRadio can play RNZ on a phone app but it can’t play via Alexa?

dunnersdude

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#2480832 10-May-2020 20:55

bongojona: Mytuner radio is working for me I've been listening to Kim Hill this morning.

Damn. Was working for me too as a workaround and now MyTuner Radio won’t load?!??

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#2481065 11-May-2020 12:14

Here is what you do...

1. Get the 'My Pod' Skill for Alexa. It allows you a limited number of free playlists, including the ability to stream podcasts, YouTube files and play audio files from your Gmail Drive.

2. Create a new 'Playlist' and name it.

3. 'Add link to Playlist', create a new link called RNZ (or whatever you like), and add this for the URL: https://ais-nzme.streamguys1.com/nz_115_aac

4. Once created you just say "Alexa, ask My Pod to play RNZ" and it will.

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#2481155 11-May-2020 13:33

Thanks - mypod works (although you can't call from a routine as far as I know).

The sooner RNZ fixes this the better. I've sent an email to the tech support email address - maybe other should too?

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#2481166 11-May-2020 13:53

Actually My Pod does allow you to have a stream played automatically once its called, and you can call it from a routine. Hurrah. So I can now have Nat Radio back as my alarm :)

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#2481624 12-May-2020 07:06

And they have fixed the tune-in stream

dunnersdude

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#2481750 12-May-2020 10:29

stocksp:

And they have fixed the tune-in stream

Great thanks for posting the update! Life is saved.

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