After a long time in the making I am excited to announce that Amazon has approved the next version of our Alexa app, which is now live and available for use. The new Alexa skill supports Amazon’s version 3 (V3) of the Home Skill API which provides a much richer set of features for modeling devices …

The link was https://myopenhab.org/rest/items?metadata=alexa,channel,synonyms&recursive=true I do use the alexa control binding also - sorry for the confusion. My setup was working until the V3 update. Then when I asked alexa to turn my lights on it would respond “hmm lights are not responding”. …

[image] Scotsman: Any ideas? If it takes more than 10 seconds for the content of that link to be output, then this is a known issue with large item collection setup and we are working to resolve this one very shortly.

@Scotsman So I have taken a closer look at this and I actually noticed in the skill logs that a bunch of users have been getting the strange error message you listed above when requesting a discovery. @michi any idea why the Amazon Echo Control binding would interfere with a rest api call?

I have deployed @jeshab changes for the discovery issue to production. @omatzyo and anyone else having discovery issues, can you try again?

Hurray! it works! You guys are the best. Thank you. I’m looking forward to digging into V3 soon. FYI, regarding above. I also use the Amazon Echo Control binding on my two systems and have not had any errors.

[image] jeshab: @michi any idea why the Amazon Echo Control binding would interfere with a rest api call? Yes, this was an issue in the 2.4 release, there was an REST call in the StateDescriptionProvider. But this is already fixed in the 2.5 release.

[image] michi: Yes, this was an issue in the 2.4 release, there was an REST call in the StateDescriptionProvider. But this is already fixed in the 2.5 release. Thanks for confirming. So the recommended solution for the affected users is to either disable the binding when using 2.4 or update t…

Hi, looks like I have to report a nother issue. Since the skill update most of my lights are not working anymore. I have some lights with a TPLink-Plug they work still fine, but all my lights on my Siemens Logo are not available via alexa. They work via the openHAB interface - I already updated t…

@jeshab My Alexa APP is telling me that “Openhab Smarthome Skill” was updated 3 days ago (to v3). I did not force a rediscover of my devices. Everything is controllable with the voice, but the “devices view” in Alexa APP is flapping. You also can switch the devices there, but many of the devices re…

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michi (Michael Geramb) August 16, 2019, 5:30pm 56

Yes, this was an issue in the 2.4 release, there was an REST call in the StateDescriptionProvider. But this is already fixed in the 2.5 release.