Re: [mh] Alexa Frustrations

Jon,
Have you downloaded the new AlexaBridge.pm module linked in the message 
just before yours?

It sounds like the same problem that many had and Wayne did some rework 
on the code to work with an apparent update that Amazon pushed out to Alexa.


On 12/10/19 2:12 PM, Jon Boehm wrote:
> Looking for suggestions or anything obvious I'm doing wrong.
>
> Problem (see details below):
>
>   * Can't add new devices to my Alexa account.
>       o Q: If I remove a single device via the Alexa Phone app should
>         I be able to tell Alexa to rescan and find the item I
>         just deleted without additional actions in my?
>   * Can't get any devices on my wife's Alexa account.
>       o Q: Can I scan in 2 peoples Alexa Accounts and have the devices
>         show up in 2 accounts, or are devices tied to a single
>         account?  As in is there a misterhouse limitation that only
>         allows one Alexa account to 'own' a device?  Alexa expects
>         each account in a household to re-scan for devices (stupid, I
>         know).
>
>
> Details:
>
>   * Successfully moved MH to port 80 and made Apache2 happy with MH on
>     port 80 even thru a reverse proxy
>   * Testing
>       o Switched to my account. Default account on Alexa is my wife's
>         account.
>       o deleted all mh related smarthome devices via the phone Alexa
>         app on my phone.
>       o Told Alexa to scan for new devices. Alexa says things like
>         "this might take a min" and "Put devices in pairing mode" etc.
>       o Found all my devices
>       o Yay, Alexa control works in my account
>       o My wife is not home so I can't immediately switch accounts and
>         scan for devices in her account too.  (REALLY STUPID that
>         amazon doesn't share smarthome devices between Alexa accounts
>         in the same Alexa-household)
>   * 2 days later repeat in my wires account... no luck
>       o Same thing.  Remove devices.
>       o On rescan Alexa *DOES NOT* say "this might take a min" and
>         "Put devices in pairing mode".  However, this could be because
>         its in some kind of 'brief' mode were Alexa is less chatty.
>       o No devices found.  ARGH.  BTW I switching to *my *account on
>         Alexa and I can still control the devices as normal
>       o Next, in my account I delete a seldom used MH device from the
>         Alexa app on my phone.
>       o Rescan in my account Alexa says the same as last time "pairing
>         mode" etc.  However this time the rescan did NOT find the item
>         I deleted a few minutes ago.
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
>
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