No devices found with private cloud and Alexa skill

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Hi everyone,

I’m in the process of swithing from myopenhab.org to a private server.

Openhab Cloud is working. My Openhab instance is connected to it and I can access everything remotely via the app.

I have setup the Alexa skill and it appears to have all gone well, except no devices are found.

It seems similar to [SOLVED] Problem with (Own) Cloud and (Own) Alexa Skill, but I have triple checked and I’m using English AU and my Lambda is in us-west-2.

My lambda is also being invoked each time I tell Alexa do ‘discover devices’.

I’ve tried linking and unlinking the skill and have done so via both the ios app and the Alexa website.

I followed this to set it up https://github.com/openhab/openhab-alexa and used the Docker Compose option.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Let me know if you need more details.

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Forgot to mention…it was working with myopenhab.org.
In my openhab instance, the only thing I’ve changed is the baseurl in openhabcloud.cfg.

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Did you See http requests in your local cloud when invoking Alexa? And double check that there is no group without a name because then Alexa wont find any Devices…

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Hey,
Thanks for the reply. I can see http requests appearing when I ask Alexa to discover devices.

I switched back to myopenhab.org and devices were discovered without issue, so I believe my item config is all correct.

I deleted everything (openhab cloud and alexa skill) and started again, hoping I’d just missed a step somewhere, but the same thing is happening.

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The lambda is running without error, but there’s no clues in the logs.

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Any other ideas?

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So when you are living in AU, the “next” lambda zone would be ap-southeast-2, wouldn’t it be?

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According to this, https://github.com/openhab/openhab-alexa/blob/master/README.md, you need to use us-west-2 when using English AU.

This is also confirmed in https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/smarthome/develop-smart-home-skills-in-multiple-languages.html#deploy

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All sorted.
Turns out I had missed a step to update the base url in a config file in the Alexa skill.
As a result, it was defaulting to myopenhab.org, not my Openhab Cloud instance.

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Adding the issue below for reference