Alexa stopped controlling one of my Fibaro switches

[Mark_Green]

My Smartthings woes continue! After about a year of seamless operation, 2 nights ago ‘Alexa, turn on the Bedroom’ Turned on the Hue lights fine but the bedside lights using a Fibaro 222 module don’t work. I checked the Alexa app and if I try to control either of those lights it says - Device is Unresponsive.

However the Smartthings app is controlling these lights without a problem.

I rebooted the smarttings hub, no change.

Any ideas?

[JDRoberts]

Are you using a simulated switch to represent the Fibaro? If so, it might be related to the following problem:

Simulated Switches no longer working with Echo (June 11, 2018)

Not sure if anyone else has come across this or not. My virtual switches in smartthings have stopped working with all my Echo devices. I have virtual Momentary Switches that are working fine, only devices with the type “Simulated Switch” are not functional. I have deleted and readded them several times. Echo detects them and adds them to the app, but the app shows them as not responding. Everything else (even other virtual device types) connected through Smartthings appears to be working.

In any case, report it to support:

SmartThings UK Support

[Mark_Green]

I am indeed using simulated switches.

I have reported this to SmartThings.

Just a bit annoying that a stable system suddenly falls over because of, presumably an unrelated change

[Mark_Green]

Having read that thread you linked there, it appears you can fix the issue by redefining the end points as virtual switches, not simulated ones…seems to work here again. Assuming they don’t go and break that too!