Amazon Echo Control Thing/Bridge offline

Yes.

Am on OH 3.4.5 and see this error message in my account thing: GET url ‘You've received an Alexa Link failed: Not Found

If i enter the address in a browser i get the following message:

When now logging in via the servlet, I get this screen:

Same issue hera on OH 5.

Same here on 5.0.1

I happened to reboot this morning and see this… Is this the same problem? (I’m 5.0.0. I’ve been unsuccessful trying to login to Amazon thru the provided link)

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Same here on OH 5.0.2

Same symptoms here. In fact I just created a (now deleted) post before discovering this thread!

I’ve tried enabling/disabling the Amazon Account Thing, rebooting openHAB, cleaning cache, adding 2FA to my Amazon account (and removing again) and removing Passkeys linked to Amazon that I’ve only recently created. All result in this error when trying to sign in.

I’m on OH5.0.1 on a rpi4 with the standard AmazonEchoControl binding.

As a workarround in order to replace at least the Alexa TTS actions i use Home Assistant (HA) and MQTT to get the 2 platforms OH and HA linked together. Added another action to my existing OH rules in order to publish the MQTT states for HA to trigger the TTS actions. Works out as on OH with the AmazonEchoControl binding.

Am a Windows11 user, have OH3.4.5 in Windows and HA is running in a “Docker Desktop” for Windows. The installation of HACS and Alexa Media Player was one line of code in a docker terminal and pretty easy. HA cloud is not required for this task.

Nevertheless i would be happy about a solution in OH (hopefully also for OH3.4.5). But its always good to have an alternative :wink: .

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Thanks for this solution. I tested this with no skill in HA and I got it to work without big problems.
Much appreciated!!

Same issue here in the US running version 4.3.8 after a OH restart this morning.

Best, Jay

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No need to mention the issue affects you. It affects all users in all cases for all openHAB versions, as the issue is a change in Amazon’s authentication mechanism.

If you have some coding experience and want to contribute, please see here:

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@lsiepel : A big shout-out that you’re still trying to make the binding work again (although you’re not even a user of it!) . Thanks so much

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When I paste the URL from the error message into the second tab, the input comes from OTA

I think it could be that they are checking the referrer and something has changed in the cookie

POST /1/events/com.amazon.csm.csa.prod undefined
Host: unagi.amazon.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 5183
Origin: https://www.amazon.com
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://www.amazon.com/
Cookie: session-id=xxxxxxxx; session-id-time=xxxxxxx; i18n-prefs=USD; lc-main=de_DE; sp-cdn="L5Z9:DE"; ubid-main=xxxx; sso-state-main=xxx; sess-at-main="xxxx"; sst-main=xxxx; skin=noskin

POST /amazonechocontrol/account/ap/signin HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.xxxx:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:144.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/144.0
Accept: image/avif,image/webp,image/png,image/svg+xml,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: de,en-US;q=0.7,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://172.xxxx:8080/amazonechocontrol/account/ap/signin
Cookie: X-OPENHAB-SESSIONID=xxxx; csm-hit=xxxxx; csm-sid=xxx

I have an observation to share with you all. While I am facing this issue where the Amazon Account is showing Config: pending and I am getting the same error at the time of authentication, many of the smart devices connected to OpenHab through Amazonecho Binding are showing online. Also, since I am able to control these devices through Alexa, surprisingly, their status is also getting updated in Openhab. But I am just not able to change status of these devices from OpenHab. Means the integration is working one way only.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Yes, also of me !!! Works only in one way (but is the OpenHAB Skill for Amazon Alexa that works)

I faced in this issue either. But after login I get a link to 2FA and try again. Then I delete account data via karaf and 2FA is working. Unfortunately, I get the same issue now: Login to ‘amazon.com’ failed: Could not register as app. Try again.

Created a new post for it here:

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Is there solution with next openhab/bindings update?

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I find it so strange the smarthomedevices linked via Echo Control binding are online but the Echo’s aren’t nor is the Bridge/Account thing.

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I saw someone else mention, mine weren’t when I checked a week ago and now all of them are with the bridge thing in pending config.

How is that even possible?

Best, Jay