Alexa Routines & Simulated Contact Sensors stopped working (17 April 2020)

[ronczap (Yorkies Rule!)]

That’s been tried before
https://community.smartthings.com/t/new-smartthings-alexa-skill-2020/191101/448

and

New SmartThings Alexa skill (2020)

I tried this except I forgot to remove Alexa as a voice assistant and I did NOT wait an hour. I enabled the SmartThings skill and Discovered all of my 31 devices. I setup a test routine in Alexa to play a sound based on a virtual switch. It acted like before - set a virtual switch on or off was reflected in both apps, BUT the Alexa routine did not SEEM to run. So I started all over - the ST Skill was disabled but as I was deleting ST devices in Alexa, the sound played repeatedly - they were queued up. TOTAL B.S. !!! I don’t know whether Samsung wrote the skill or Amazon, but it sucks! Gonna wait a while and try again… **EDIT ** The second attempt did not resolve the problem either BUT by the next morning the virtual switches were functioning normally and the Alexa routines execu…