Alexa is unable to find any items

[job (Joachim Boeddeker)]

Today i decided to redo my Amazon Alexa configuration (OH 2.1 stable). I had some lights working, but in order to clean up, i removed everything from the openhab cloud connector & Alexa. Tags are unchanged, i only added one switch using the tags “Switchable” & “Lighting”.

First problem was the exposing to the cloud. I used group items for the lights, but the new group behaviour made it impossible to expose the groups. (Exposed items need a state change to get exposed).

Somehow i managed to get the items exposed to myopenhab, but now Alexa does not find any items. What am i missing? Any hints? Thanks for any help.

I reconnected the Alexa to openhab several times.

Thansk for any help

Joachim

[Likonaus (Olaf)]

Hi, there is already a thread covering that…

Official Alexa Smart Home Skill for openHAB 2

–Updated 5/31/2018, added new Languages and Regions – I am pleased to announce that the openHAB 2 Alexa Smart Home skill has been certified by Amazon today and is now live. This skill allows you to connect your openHAB setup through the myopenHAB.org cloud service to Amazon Alexa. With this skill you can control items that respond to on/off and numeric commands as well as limited support for thermostats. The skill is supported for the following languages and regions: English (UK) English (…

[sihui]

@job

First problem was the exposing to the cloud.

Just as a sidenote: you don’t need to expose any items to make them work with Alexa.

@job

i only added one switch using the tags “Switchable” & “Lighting”.

ONE switch with TWO tags? Won’t work …

[job (Joachim Boeddeker)]

@sihui

Just as a sidenote: you don’t need to expose any items to make them work with Alexa.

Thanks, didn’t know that.

@sihui

ONE switch with TWO tags? Won’t work …

I changed also to just “Switchable” and just “Lighting”, neither works.

@Likonaus

Hi, there is already a thread covering that…

Thanks, i’ll try there.