malfunction

[Watanakas]

Hi, since the appdaemon was updated a while ago, ad-alexatalkingclock isn't working. I think you've abandoned the project. I don't know if you'll return to it. I hope you can. It was very useful to me. I hope you feel like checking again to see where the error is. Thanks for your time.

[markbooth73]

Error since

2026-05-16 09:00:15.243421 WARNING HASS: Error with websocket result: invalid_format: expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data['target']. Got 'media_player.mark_s_2nd_echo_show': request={'type': 'call_service', 'domain': 'notify', 'service': 'alexa_media', 'service_data': {'data': {'type': 'announce', 'method': 'all'}, 'title': 'Home Assistant: Alexa Talking Clock', 'message': "It's 9 AM."}, 'target': 'media_player.mark_s_2nd_echo_show', 'id': 55}

AppDaemon 0.18.5 is available. You are running 0.16.6.

Last working 0.16.6

Looks like the issue described below

well, it looks like appdeamon decided to make their own call_service func

import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
class Tester(hass.Hass):
def initialize(self):
#define a data dict to enforce notofication bell sound
self.alexa_service_data = {
"type": "announce",
"method": "speak"}
#define an array with two alexas
self.my_target =["media_player.buro", "media_player.buro"]
#call the service similar to what the developer tools do:
self.call_service("notify/alexa_media", message='Test', entity_id=self.my_target , data = self.alexa_service_data)