"Device is unresponsive" in Alexa apps and by voice

Bourne ToRide

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Oct 17, 2021, 8:45:22 AM10/17/21

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I have been cursing Alexa recently for forgetting my devices when my wife logs into the Echo, while I am logged into the Dot and they work fine. However now they are all unresponsive on both Echo, Dot, Android app & IOS app. All are good on Tasmota webpage.

A selection of Sonoff basic and dimmers running a variety of fw 8.1, 8.5, & 9.5

Went through deleting each device on Android app yesterday, each is immediately discovered again and added, works once then reported as unresponsive

Has something changed with WEMO emulation?

I have a single Amazon plug that works fine, I guess this shows the apps/Echo/Dot are working, at least with an Amazon device

Philip Knowles

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Oct 17, 2021, 10:52:22 AM10/17/21

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Don’t know about Alexa but Google Assistant changed something last week and all my openHAB devices stopped working with Google through HomeKit. I think that WEMO and HomeKit use the same emulation so it could be a similar issue.

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Phil K

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Stephan Hadinger

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Oct 18, 2021, 2:35:55 AM10/18/21

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I saw no changes to Alexa and emulation is still working normally, whether Hue or Wemo.

One reason of a device being unresponsive is that its IP address changed, or something is blocking multicast on your local network

Best,

Stephan

Bourne ToRide

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Oct 22, 2021, 12:06:36 PM10/22/21

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The IP doesn't change from 1 minute before when the device was added by discovery, so what could block multicast?

And devices work fine on their Tasmota webpage

Using 2x BT Hub 5 running OpenWRT 21 for my network

Bourne ToRide

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May 25, 2022, 8:02:57 AM5/25/22

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The answer to this problem was to remove dynamic sleep, it seems that first response was too slow for Alexa, second response worked. Now always reponds first time

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