Alexa voice control not supported

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Hi,

I have set up Alexa to control my openhab items. All but 1 work fine, but the 1 dimmer is not supported by voice (at least that is what Alexa tells me). I have other dimmers and they work fine. The dimmer in question is able to be manually controlled by Alexa (via the app). So I am not sure what exactly the issue is, has anyone else experienced this or managed to troubleshoot it.

Thanks in advance.

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Using code fences, share the Item, binding use, Thing configuration, and any applicable automation to give us something to advise you about.

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This is the Item:

Dimmer LivingRoom_Dimmer “Lounge” (GInside, gBlind) [“Lighting”] {channel=""}

I am using the Amazon Echo Control Binding ,the Thing is a z-wave Fibaro Dimmer 2 (FDG212).

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Assuming you mean FGD212 there are 2 different entries, depending on firmware level of the dimmer. Perhaps there are differences in the binding configuration.= if you have one of each.

Up to 3.4
https://www.cd-jackson.com/index.php/zwave/zwave-device-database/zwave-device-list/devicesummary/133

3.5 and higher
https://www.cd-jackson.com/index.php/zwave/zwave-device-database/zwave-device-list/devicesummary/787

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Sorry, yeah, FGD212 is the one that does NOT work, the dimmer that I have that does work is the FGD211.

The version of the FGD212 is 3.4

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Sorry. Firmware version? We have 3 versions of that one.
I thought I could compare the entries to see if anything obvious turns up.

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The version of the FGD211 is 2.2

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@chris The second device below looks quite different than the first. Group 1 is not controller in the first. The second one has Endpoint 0 switch multilevel set as basic but has no dimmer entry. Suggestions?

211 (works)
https://www.cd-jackson.com/index.php/zwave/zwave-device-database/zwave-device-list/devicesummary/119

212 (broken)
https://www.cd-jackson.com/index.php/zwave/zwave-device-database/zwave-device-list/devicesummary/133

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Hi, thanks for your help on this, I renamed the item from Lounge to Pantry and rediscovered it with Alexa and amazingly that worked. So I suspect Alexa thinks that Lounge is something else. Not sure what since there are no other devices around with that name.

Thanks again!

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That is quite normal for the older Fibaro devices. Group 1 being set to the controller was only made standard with the introduction of ZWave+. Before that Fibaro tended to use group 3.