This issue should be resolved. Space between items shouldn’t matter of course.
This would mean to map Switchables to Dimmable Lights for non European locales.
It either means, Amazon removed this functionality in newer firmwares or Amazon added a feature for the European product start, that was not in the original firmware (I can hardly imagine they did this).
Unfortunately, all evidence at hand shows this to be the case. Even if there is an On/Off plug-in unit that is supported by the US echos, it is already 100% apparent that they’re running a different feature set by the fact that they don’t support the OSRAM unit like the EU echos do.
IMHO Alexa local discovery is/will be deprecated and all future support will be skills/cloud integration. As an example Logitech’s choice to remove the local API on the Harmony remotes under the guise of a security vulnerability. This done ostensibly to monetize the data collected. Amazon via skills puts the burden of integration on the manufacturer
Not entirely sure on that to be honest. At the same time they are trying to perform local voice recognision of HA related commands and try to make Alexa work offline to some degree.
i am from Germany and faced a similar issue:
After i’ve updated to openHAB 2.4 ALEXA doesn’t find items tagged as “Switchable” any more.
I left the Hue Emulation configuration at standard settings exept I turned on the ‘Amazon Echo device discovery fix’.
After reading several posts I did a quick test just to see what’s discovered at all:
With the following configuration ALEXA discoveres only “Lighting” and “ColorLighting” devices.
So only test05, 06, 08, 09, 11 and 12 are discovered. (I tried discovering from Echo, Echo Spot, WebIF and Alexa App with same results)
I also tested with the ‘HUE Essentials’ App on my smartphone, where all devices are discovered correctly.
The items tagged as “Switchable” are discovered as ‘Osram Lightify Plug Model Plug 01’.
Therefore I assume it’s a problem an Amazon’s side.
Has anyone figuered out a solution for this issue?
Amazon is slowly fading out local Hue support apparently (and especially now as they have Echo Plus etc).
Some devices can still recognise Osram Plugs, others can’t. There is no pattern. Workaround is of course to change the tag for Switchables to “Lighting”.
This adds a latency of about 2 seconds to each command. I rather live with an undocumented local hue support, personally. But it’s your choice of course.
I live im Germany too and I have several Alexa devices (Echo, Spot, Show) and none of them regonices the OSRAM unit. I had to change all my Openhab items to “Lighting”.
Thinking about it, this has probably nothing to do with any Echo device. The discovery is done by the Echo app on your phone and not by any Echo device. And we know that amazon can selectively turn on and of features in your Echo app/account so it is the most likely account and/or app version related.
I don’t think this is correct. Wireshark shows the queries coming from all the echo devices. Not to mention that you can initiate discovery by voice or the website.
Okay, thanks for the Info. I didn’t know that. I still think it has something to do with your account, as amazon can switch on and off features selectively and not with any specific device.
after reading me into the hue emulation 2.4 topic and some opened issues on github like https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/issues/4293 , I’m still unable to control my roller shutter with percentage commands like “alexa, roller shutter 60%” which did work before with this item: Rollershutter Rollo "Rollo" <rollershutter> (Wohnzimmer, pGroup) ["Switchable"] {channel="zwave:device:1aa147bc:node12:blinds_control"}
so… any idea of workaround due roller shutter? Is it possible to add the old hue emulation binding to openhab 2.4?