This used to be working just fine. Now, after the Monday Night/Tuesday Amazon Echo update, whenever I ask the echo to trigger a device that is controlled by a virtual switch, I just get a failed tone. I removed all my devices in the Alexa app, unlinked and relinked SmartThings, and rediscovered dev…

Yeah, I’ve noticed a problem as well, but it isn’t just the virtual switches. It sends to be just random things for me. Not sure what’s up.

Not 100% sure on this but it seems to be two word groups. My Alexa group “Todd Leaving” running virtual switch “Leaving” quite so I renamed the Alexa group to “Garage” still running virtual switch “Leaving” and it now works. It was failing on “goodbye” too. One word, but sounds like two? I read o…

different words fail from day to day, then succeed on the next day. My echo/Smart Home/ group-name setting virtual switch “TV Mode” and “Watch TV” both failed 3 days ago, then “TV Mode” worked 2 days ago, then both worked last night. Other virtuals with different naming, did accept commands. I hav…

My HA device bridge items work with the EXACT same words. Something else is up here. I’m just going to use the HA bridge for a while.

I have a weird issue where Alexa would turn on a smart bulb for me, but when I asked it to turn it off, I would hear nothing or the error tone and nothing would happen. Looking at the Alexa app, it sees the voice command properly, but just isn’t doing anything. To work around it, I created a group …

Can’t turn off my harmony activities but can turn on, have not had time to mess with it yet. All these failures is making me reach for the remote :smiley:

I’m wondering if this could be a problem. I just received the weekly email from Amazon about echo. Lutron switches are now fully supported. I’m willing to bet that is why our virtual switches are not working right. I do know that when they integrated the thermostats I lost control of a lot of my…

Or it might be ST… [image] IFTTT connectivity? General Discussion Nope, I ditched all my virtual switches couple of weeks ago when I started having issues with their state…

The HA bridge is working for me with the EXACT same names as the ST virtual switches that were failing. I can confirm it was switches with two words in ST, when I changed the names to a single simple word, like “car” instead of “my car” it started working.

Logitech activities began to fail for me 3-4 days ago, as well. Using remote in the interim…can you imagine? Love the instability for now regardless of whether it’s SH, Echo, etc.

Amazon Echo and Virtual Switches stopped working

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SBDOBRESCU (Bobby) April 8, 2016, 8:37pm 9

Or it might be ST…

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Amazon Echo and Virtual Switches stopped working

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