FireTV: Alexa voice command for video, fastforward and rewind not supported?

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I have an video app for the FireTV and voice commands for play, pause, skipNext, skipPrev work fine, but when calling fastforward and rewind Alexa says it's "not supported".

I'm using MediaSessionCompat and MediaSessionCompat.Callback. In the Callback I have overridden onSeekTo, onRewind, and onFastForward but the framework never calls those function and still says it's not supported.

Also have the alexa voice command permission in manifest <uses-permission android:name="com.amazon.permission.media.session.voicecommandcontrol" />

My only hunch is that I might need to use the Video Skill API for that functionality. Any insights Appreciated!

amazon-fire-tv alexa voice android
1 Answers

Turns out I didn't add the PlaybackState.ACTION_SEEK_TO action to the supported list of actions. 

PlaybackStateCompat.Builder stateBuilder = new PlaybackStateCompat.Builder()
            .setActions(PlaybackState.ACTION_PLAY |
            PlaybackState.ACTION_PAUSE |
            PlaybackState.ACTION_PLAY_PAUSE |
            PlaybackState.ACTION_SKIP_TO_NEXT |
            PlaybackState.ACTION_SKIP_TO_PREVIOUS |
            PlaybackState.ACTION_FAST_FORWARD | // ALEXA DOESN'T USE THIS
            PlaybackState.ACTION_REWIND | // ALEXA DOESN'T USE THIS
            PlaybackState.ACTION_SEEK_TO); // NEED TO ADD SEEK_TO ACTION
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