Echo Binding (SmartHome/J variant) no longer turning on my Wyze bulbs

[Chad_Hadsell]

@J-N-K -
Is there achange log for version 3.2.10 of the SmartHome/J echo control binding? I have some Wyze smart bulbs that I’ve been controlling via the echo binding. (Wyze haven’t released an API, but they’re controllable via Alexa, so this has been a passable workaround so that I can still use these bulbs).

Anyway, they just stopped working correctly about a day ago. “Off” commands still work, but for any command that turns them on (brightness percentage, “On”, setting a color temperature via the color temperature channel…) the device isn’t responding. Here’s what shows up in my log:

2022-01-22 10:23:30.707 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemCommandEvent      ] - Item 'Pantry_Brightness' received command ON
2022-01-22 10:23:30.739 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Pantry_Brightness' changed from 0 to 100
2022-01-22 10:23:33.078 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Pantry_Brightness' changed from 100 to 0

And despite the fact that the log says the light turned on for a few milliseconds, the physical bulb never actually does.

For now I’ve set up a very clunky workaround by using the textCommand channel to send Alexa the “Turn on the Pantry Light” command. But that makes the echo chirp in confirmation, and seems to take a bit longer to process.

Anyway, any insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

[dirkdirk (Dirk)]

Maybe it is related to this:

Amazon Echo Control doesn't work anymore after outage

Hi, after the outage of Amazon Alexa service in Germany yesterday, the commands to my items don’t work anymore. It seems as if the commands are timing out. (" doesn’t react"). Anyone else has this experience? How can I solve it? Disabeling/enabeling Account thing didn’t help.

Pls stop and start your openhab service.

[rossko57]

@Chad_Hadsell

the log says the light turned on for a few milliseconds

Background info only - that looks like the normal effects of autoupdate feature

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[J-N-K (Jan N. Klug)]

The issue already is under investigation and looks like a changed behavior of the Wyze skill which needs some adoption on binding side.