See my new post about Alexa and Plex

[mike27oct]

Let me know if it works for your basic My Cloud.

WD NAS, Alexa and Plex working together to play music and video

First of all, this is not an idea for WD to consider. It is an idea for USERS of WD upper tier NAS devices to consider doing, because it is cool and it works! This is the most appropriate forum in which to alert a lot of users of the products. In a nutshell, I (and others) have been using the voice control of Alexa to tell Plex to select music (and video) stored and served by my WD NAS to play the media on a stereo, TV, and other devices such as a Roku and an Alexa Dot (via its audio out) to …