–Updated 5/31/2018, added new Languages and Regions – I am pleased to announce that the openHAB 2 Alexa Smart Home skill has been certified by Amazon today and is now live. This skill allows you to connect your openHAB setup through the myopenHAB.org cloud service to Amazon Alexa. With this skill…

Sometimes it is “offline” or extremly delayed which is not shown on http://status.openhab.org/ Most of the time I check manually if I can reach my dashboard over myopenhab.

It is good that there is a status dashboard. It would be useful if it was mentioned on the myopenhab login screen or even in the accounts once you logged in. The fact is even if I ignore that there may be occasions that we experience poor response and it is not logged as an issue to the dashboard …

for me, as i have to deal with server availability on a daily base, the main question is what are the actual root causes that myopenhab is not available/working stable. is it that the server is just not capable of handling the load, software related issues, maintenance … maybe if we would know the …

[image] idkpmiller: now in my opinion it is myopenhab it really cannot be used as a reliable way I totally agree with that but we have to keep in mind that openhab is freeware and the idea of the cloud service was more kind of a demo/reference in the first place. And yes, I also think to spre…

[image] idkpmiller: Thanks Tom, You have given me something to consider, perhaps I need to move away from myopenhab too. Is there some particular posts/articles you would recommend to consider hue emulation as an option? I just used the explanation on github here It’s pretty straightforw…

@Toddah [image] Toddah: Rediscovered but still no luck. If I have a working binding / item in paperUI do I have to do a binding in the configuration files again? please see here: Link

Why nobody deploeyed a new version of Amazon to fix the [“Lighting”] bug Alexa-Enabled Group Feature Appliance Categories Updates by jsetton · Pull Request #52 · openhab/openhab-alexa · GitHub

I am n ot sure coding is the only think that neds to happen here, I am also interested in the architecture side of this issue. It seems that the cloud service has evolved from its original intent and needs a solid rethink. some optimal code never goes amiss but is really a band-aid. Do we know …

Thanks Tom. I have gone done the Hue Emulation ath to stabilise the experience. I walked straight into the temperature issue too which is weird as there are posts that say it was working, but I too found those tagged devices were not discovered by Alexa. Thanks for your thoughts Paul

I’m trying to get my Alexa devices talking to OH2 to start controlling lights and other items. I have removed my Philips Hue and other Skills as well in hoping to avoid any conflicts. I see the devices listed in the Alexa App, and I added [ Lighting ] to a few of my items. But Alexa keeps telling…