OpenHAB Alexa Skill doesn't show any items

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Hi,

i was running my Alexa with the Hue Emulation for a while now and was very exited to test the newly released Skill instead. I successfully bind Alexa with myopenhab.org but although i tagged all the relevant items for publishing in the openhab cloud service Alex can’´t find any of my items.

How can i troubleshoot this?

Jens

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Exposing the items is not required.

Go to the Alexa app or the website or let the Alexa hardware search for the devices.

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the items are correctly published:

{
  "link": "https://home.myopenhab.org/rest/items/Esszimmer_Licht_state",
  "state": "OFF",
  "stateDescription": {
    "readOnly": false,
    "options": []
  },
  "type": "Switch",
  "name": "Esszimmer_Licht_state",
  "label": "Esszimmer",
  "category": "light",
  "tags": [
    "Lighting"
  ],
  "groupNames": [
    "licht"
  ]
}

or at leaset i think it is…

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i have done this… but there where no items found…

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You should see something like this (in your language):

alexa.JPG955×245 13.5 KB

I tagged the items via:

Switch Timer_2 "Fensterlicht" ["Switchable"]
Dimmer Kitchen_East_Alexa "Rolläden Ost" ["Lighting"]
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this is one of mine:

Switch  Esszimmer_Licht_state           "Esszimmer"                             <light>         (licht)                 [ "Lighting" ]                  { channel="homematic:HM-LC-Sw1PBU-FM:1:NEQ0134795:1#STATE" }
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Strange … your item looks okay to me.
After adding the skill, did you successfully login via username/password to the openHAB cloud?

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Upps, wrong statement: Switches should be tagged with [“Switchable”]
[ “Lighting” ] does return numbers, though.

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ok… this perticular one was indeed wrong, but i have others correcly tagged and even after fixing this one there are no items found:

{
  "link": "https://home.myopenhab.org/rest/items/Esszimmer_Licht_state",
  "state": "OFF",
  "stateDescription": {
    "readOnly": false,
    "options": []
  },
  "type": "Switch",
  "name": "Esszimmer_Licht_state",
  "label": "Esszimmer",
  "category": "light",
  "tags": [
    "Switchable"
  ],
  "groupNames": [
    "licht"
  ]
}
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Hmmm …
I had the same hue emulation setup before, so what I did:

delete all old emulation items
uninstall hue emulation
add the openHAB Alexa skill
connect the skill to the openHAB cloud
put in username/password
search for devices

that’s it.
Sorry, have no more ideas for your problem …

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:frowning:

i did basically the same. Even uninstalled and reinstalled the Skill and so on… But thanks anyway :slight_smile:

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Am I right assuming, that the core benefit of this skill is to replace the current hue emulation-setup?

It´s still limited to numeric commands and limited thermostat control, isn´t it?

Please don´t consider this as criticism, it´s only a matter of understanding. :slight_smile:

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Thx sihui… and sry for double post.

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Hello,

with the hue emulation alexa find all items.
i disabled the hue emulation in openhab and enable the skill in alexa.
now no items where found from alexa.

how can i debug openhab when alexa discovers devices ?

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@Jensen: did you check this one:

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thanks for the hint, i will give it a try :slight_smile:

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@Jensen @belmondo2001 @Max1968

For all who did not find any device with Alexa (via Official Alexa Smart Home Skill), I have maybe a solution! See here: Link

Hope this helps!

Edit: updated new information! (21 July)

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