AmazonEchoControl - Play Alarm Sound not working

Christian_Hartmann · October 18, 2022, 10:06pm

Hello Openhab-Community,

I am currently changing all my scripts from Openhab2 to Openhab3 and renewing them. Now I’m stuck with my alarm system and would be grateful for your help!
I have a number of Alexa Echos in the house that should trigger a “PlayAlarmSound” when a burglar alarm is triggered.
I have triggered before the items with the following rule …

sendCommand(Echo_OG_Gaestezimmer_PlayAlarmSound, 'ECHO:system_alerts_atonal_02')
Thread::sleep(500)
sendCommand(Echo_EG_Wohnzimmer_PlayAlarmSound, 'ECHO:system_alerts_atonal_02')
Thread::sleep(500)
sendCommand(Echo_OG_Schlafzimmer_PlayAlarmSound, 'ECHO:system_alerts_atonal_02')

In my new script, I use the same command …

 sendCommand(Alexa_Wohnzimmer_Show_PlayAlarmSound, 'ECHO:system_alerts_atonal_02')

No alarm sounds appear …
The log entries give no informations where the problem could be …

2022-10-18 21:47:20.162 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemCommandEvent ] - Item ‘Alexa_Wohnzimmer_Show_PlayAlarmSound’ received command
2022-10-18 21:47:20.163 [INFO ] [penhab.event.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - Item ‘Alexa_Wohnzimmer_Show_PlayAlarmSound’ predicted to become
2022-10-18 21:47:20.163 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘Alexa_Wohnzimmer_Show_PlayAlarmSound’ changed from ECHO:system_alerts_atonal_02 to
2022-10-18 21:47:20.907 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item ‘Alexa_Wohnzimmer_Show_NextAlarm’ changed from 2022-10-19T21:47:06.048+0000 to UNDEF

On the item the change was successful but the alexa not respond with any sound …

Even when I try to change the sound directly in the openhab UI no change happens.

I have tried this appearance on two alexas now with the same behavior. Do you please have any idea how can I solve the problem?

Thanks for your help

Matze0211 · October 19, 2022, 7:43am

I had the same issue, could not solve it and only after I reinstalled my system (for another reason) it was working again.

binderth · October 19, 2022, 8:40am

Do you run your OH2 and your OH3 in parallel? Sometimes I get similar behaviour on my alexas, if there’s two connections in parallel?
If so, try to deactivate the OH2 amazonechocontrol and restart the binding on OH3 to see, what happens.

Oetzi · November 24, 2022, 9:40pm

I have the same issue, but at least for me it has nothing to do wih OH2.
But the PlayAlarmSound is not working for me either, it has worked a couple of days ago though, although I did not change any setting whatsoever since then.

Funny thing though, I noticed that every time I trigger a “PlayAlarmSound”, the “NextAlarm” item is set to a time exactly 24 hours in the future, but no idea why. I checked in the Alexa app, but didn’t find any setting that alarms are set in 24 hours.

Does anybody have the same issue or knows why this happens?