I’m missing this with my items in the Alexa App. Is it a miss-configuration on my side or a missing feature in the Alexa Smart Home Skill? (I’m on openhab 2.5.1).
Unfortunately, as mentioned in the contact and motion sensor documentation, these cannot be used to trigger Alexa routines for the time being. Currently, the only support for these is requesting their state via voice commands.
I decided to update the Alexa skill code. The one I was using previously was very old. I had no issues following the instructions here https://github.com/openhab/openhab-alexa and created the ASK-CLI details and deployed the skill. Its visible in the Alexa companion app and I was able to link it via the CLI. I couldnt see any errors, everything looks OK
I forgot all my devices using the Alexa website and ran a discovery.
No new devices found using the alexa skill, only devices from other enabled skills
Have you gone over the troubleshooting guide? This is the typical syndrome of a bad item configuration causing the discovery process to silently fail on the Alexa side. Staggering is the key in resolving this one.
If we want to increase log verbosity, add environmental variable LOG_LEVEL = info to your Lambda function configuration.
Hi Jeremy I did yes, but given the items were being discovered by previously working skills I didnt think there could be an issue with syntax, is that not correct?
Yes, the file resides there with the right details, no issues opening the baseURL and authenticating with the details in the file to show all the REST items.