Re: [mh] I think the alexa bridge is broken again :-(

Rick Steeves via misterhouse-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.misterhouse.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
When you get this working, I'd love to add Alexa support to my 
implementation if you can point me to the right pieces.

rick


On 11/1/2020 5:01 AM, Giles Godart-Brown wrote:
> I'm afraid the factory reset of the Echos doesn't work now, any change 
> you could add the switches so I can test it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Giles
> 
> p.s. Most recent log attached - G
> 
> On 12/08/2020 16:39, Giles Godart-Brown wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Wayne, I'm up and running now and know what to do if it fails 
>> again.
>>
>> I would keep the .ini parameter for another day, perhaps when you do 
>> some major housekeeping.
>>
>> Giles
>>
>> On 11/08/2020 04:33, Wayne Gatlin wrote:
>>> I saw in your logs "Returning short format. Accept-Encoding=" which 
>>> means Alexa is not sending the gzip header so mh is sending the short 
>>> formatted response and oddly your echos don't like it for 
>>> some reason. Previously your echos were sending a gzip header and 
>>> with gzip the long response was ok and would support a good amount of 
>>> devices. My echos have never behaved like yours does, no gzip and 
>>> doesn't mind the short format. Anyway, we could add an .ini switch to 
>>> force the long format and one for gzip which should solve the problem.
>>>
>>> I see a reset helped, maybe Amazon switched something back. Let me 
>>> know if you want me to add the new switches.
>>>
>>>
>>> _Wayne
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, 11:35 AM Jon Boehm <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     When you say reset, do you mean power cycle or do you mean a
>>>     factory reset?
>>>
>>>     Thanks,
>>>     Jon
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:04 AM Giles Godart-Brown
>>>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         I think I have a fix. I've reset the Echo, re-attaching it to
>>>         the Wifi and now it discovers and works fine.
>>>
>>>         I wonder if it keeps a cache of of devices and delete doesn't
>>>         actually delete them.
>>>
>>>         Giles
>>>
>>>         On 09/08/2020 19:44, Giles Godart-Brown wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         Its been working fine for quite a while now, but I just
>>>>         added another device in MH and it failed to discover it. I
>>>>         tried the delete all devices and rediscover, test but still
>>>>         it finds nothing.
>>>>
>>>>         Attached is the log with debug set to 5, I cannot see
>>>>         anything obvious.
>>>>
>>>>         Can anyone help?
>>>>
>>>>         Thanks
>>>>
>>>>         Giles
>>>>
>>>>         <items.mht>
>>>>
>>>>         #########################################################################################################
>>>>         #  ALEXA
>>>>         ##########################################################################################################
>>>>         ALEXA_BRIDGE, Alexa
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ITEM, AlexaItems, Alexa
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Kitchen_lamp,            
>>>>         Kitchen lamp
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Lounge_lamp,             Lounge
>>>>         lamp
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Lounge_CH,         Lounge heating
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Lounge_Hi_Fi_H4,         Lounge TV
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Main_bedroom_lamp,           
>>>>         Bedroom lamp
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Main_bedroom_CH,            
>>>>         Bedroom heating
>>>>         #ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Bedroom_fan,            
>>>>         Bedroom fan
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, Outside_Tree_lights,       
>>>>         Outside tree lights
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, sub_all_lights_on_off,     all
>>>>         lights, &alexa_all_lights_on_off
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, sub_all_heating,            
>>>>         all heating, &alexa_heating_on_off
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, sub_everything,           
>>>>         everything, &alexa_everything_off
>>>>         ALEXABRIDGE_ADD, AlexaItems, sub_all_tree_lights,       tree
>>>>         lights, &alexa_tree_lights_on_off
>>>>
>>>>         </items.mht>
>>>>
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