Amazon Echo - Alexa don't find any devices

Celaeno1 · January 22, 2018, 12:48pm

No, only when “Simple item linking” is turned OFF and NEVER was turned ON before, then Alexa can find devices.
The only exceptions: You don’t have installed: lifx, tradfri, hue, max, mihome
Then you can turn ON “Simple item Linking” without any problems.

Jonas88 · January 24, 2018, 11:33am

That’s not true either.
On my old Installation i enabled simple item linking and alexa worked too (i had installed the hue binding).
Again: it was an issue with the myopenhab cloud Service for in my case.

Celaeno1 · January 25, 2018, 10:07am

@Jonas88

It depends on when you first have installed the huebinding. In my case (in July 2017) this following line was missing (or empty):

Line 23: <label>Brightness</label>

github.com

eclipse/smarthome/blob/7e814679b259c273197eb65be8850d460ce491a4/extensions/binding/org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.hue/ESH-INF/thing/channels.xml#L23


    </description>
    <category>ColorLight</category>
    <tags>
        <tag>Lighting</tag>
    </tags>
</channel-type>


<!-- Brightness Channel -->
<channel-type id="brightness">
    <item-type>Dimmer</item-type>
    <label>Brightness</label>
    <description>The brightness channel allows to control the brightness of a light.
        It is also possible to switch the light on and off.
    </description>
    <category>DimmableLight</category>
    <tags>
        <tag>Lighting</tag>
    </tags>
</channel-type>


	<!-- Switch Channel -->

It seems, that later on the labels were added!

In my case (in July 2017) the labels were missing, see here:

{"link":"https://myopenhab.org/rest/items/hue_0100_0017882971e8_8_brightness","state":"0","type":"Dimmer","name":"hue_0100_0017882971e8_8_brightness","tags":["Lighting"],"groupNames":[]}
{"link":"https://myopenhab.org/rest/items/hue_0100_0017882971e8_1_brightness","state":"0","type":"Dimmer","name":"hue_0100_0017882971e8_1_brightness","tags":["Lighting"],"groupNames":[]}
{"link":"https://myopenhab.org/rest/items/hue_0100_0017882971e8_2_brightness","state":"0","type":"Dimmer","name":"hue_0100_0017882971e8_2_brightness","tags":["Lighting"],"groupNames":[]},

Maybe there are people out there, who installed the huebinding long ago (with “Simple Item Linking”). So they will get no devices with Alexa APP.

Cheers

Alex

omatzyo · June 16, 2018, 1:52pm

I’m not sure if this affects too many people, but I’ll throw it out there… I was putting in an echo for my inlaws and tried to set it up before the device had been delivered. After some trial and error I determined that discovery only works if you have an Echo connected and on the network. It won’t work if the phone app is alone.