Echo devices: Announce and Speak stopped working

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Hi,
after updating from 4.3.2 to 4.3.5, Echo devices no longer announce or speak anything even if I directly POST commend to the item. Anyone else experiencing the same? There are no errors, just silence. All my Echos do respond normally to “alexa” commands.

I also can no longer see anything I speak to the Echo devices in OpenHAB logs…

2025-06-04 12:46:00.529 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemCommandEvent      ] - Item 'Lounge_Speak' received command test
2025-06-04 12:46:00.532 [INFO ] [penhab.event.ItemStatePredictedEvent] - Item 'Lounge_Speak' predicted to become test
2025-06-04 12:46:00.536 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Lounge_Speak' changed from  to test
==> /var/log/openhab/openhab.log <==
2025-06-04 12:46:00.547 [TRACE] [control.internal.handler.EchoHandler] - Command 'test' received for channel 'amazonechocontrol:echo:0dd9e959:Lounge:textToSpeech'
2025-06-04 12:46:01.056 [DEBUG] [mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - added 10115322 device G0G2DB03335202L0 
2025-06-04 12:46:01.555 [DEBUG] [control.internal.handler.EchoHandler] - Handle updateState amazonechocontrol:echo:0dd9e959:Lounge
2025-06-04 12:46:01.556 [DEBUG] [mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Make request to https://alexa.amazon.com/api/np/player?deviceSerialNumber=G0G2DB03335202L0&deviceType=ASQZWP4GPYUT7&screenWidth=1440
2025-06-04 12:46:01.803 [DEBUG] [mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Call to https://alexa.amazon.com/api/np/player?deviceSerialNumber=G0G2DB03335202L0&deviceType=ASQZWP4GPYUT7&screenWidth=1440 succeeded
2025-06-04 12:46:01.806 [DEBUG] [mazonechocontrol.internal.Connection] - Result of GET https://alexa.amazon.com/api/np/player?deviceSerialNumber=G0G2DB03335202L0&deviceType=ASQZWP4GPYUT7&screenWidth=1440:{"playerInfo":{"hint":null,"infoText":null,"isPlayingInLemur":false,"lemurVolume":null,"lyrics":null,"mainArt":null,"mediaId":null,"miniArt":null,"miniInfoText":null,"playbackSource":null,"playingInLemurId":null,"progress":null,"provider":null,"quality":null,"queueId":null,"state":null,"template":null,"transport":null,"upNextItems":null,"volume":null}}
==> /var/log/openhab/events.log <==
2025-06-04 12:46:01.811 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ItemStateChangedEvent ] - Item 'Lounge_Speak' changed from test to
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I haven’t tried the binding of the openhab release for a long time.
For me the latest version (smarthomej) works like a charm including speech etc.

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Thanks, upgrading to 4.3.5 OH had uninstalled the smarthomej binding (?!) and I tried to use the “official” binding, but apparently it still hasn’t been fixed. :+1: Works fine with the 4.3.2 smarthomej binding.