Devices unavailable + duplicates
schweppy opened this issue · comments
Hello
I regularly have issues surrounding the following found in the troubleshooting wiki - “After restarting homebridge Alexa can't find devices and needs to discover them again. Or you have duplicate devices in Alexa”
Usually I have to either restart homebridge or rediscover devices in Alexa app several times as all devices show as unavailable.
As per the wiki, I have a port number set for homebridge. Is there anything else I can try so that I don’t get a regularly annoyed wife
Many thanks
Did you see this issue and the workaround 'keep alive' setting that is available with the current beta release ?
Sorry I didn’t! Will play with those settings and report back! Many thanks
updated to 0.5.55, looks better
@NorthernMan54
I experience something quite similar now with 0.5.55.
After a recent reboot there is one device where I get "Device is unresponsive".
It's a Philips Hue Light configured in fhem.
Switching on/off and dimming via Siri and homebridge works fine, though.
Any thoughts?
Log entry when trying to switch on via Alexa:
[2022-1-11 11:20:33] [Alexa] PowerController TurnOn 52:54:00:77:82:E9 { characteristics: [ { aid: 207, iid: 10, status: -70410 } ] } null
Log entry when trying to switch on via Siri:
2022-1-11 11:21:12] [FHEM] HUEDevice6: executing set cmd for On with value true [2022-1-11 11:21:12] [FHEM] executing: http://127.0.0.1:8083/fhem?cmd=set%20HUEDevice6%20on&XHR=1 2022-01-11 11:21:14 caching: HUEDevice6-onoff: 1
@aski71 have you tried asking Alexa to discover devices again?
Yes. Alexa does not find any new devices.
But does it now work?
Ok. You got me.
As it did not find anything and it did not look any different in the Alexa App UI, that was the one thing I didn't try.
Yes. It works again.
Asking Alexa to discover devices again refreshes the device cache on the Alexa side and fixes a broken device mapping like this.