Amazon Echo

[JDRoberts]

@lavalamp27

Anyone else having hub issues? I went to link everything and noticed nothing works now.

I can confirm that at some point in adding the new echo integration, the IP address for a hue bridge that was previously connected is zeroed out in both the smartthings mobile app and in the echo official app causing Any bulbs that are connected to that bridge to then be uncontrollable from either smartthings or echo, although they will still be controllable from the native Hue app.

It’s an easy fix, you basically just have to re-discover the Hue bridge from both the smartthings side and the echo side. After that everything works OK again.

I have added instructions for this fix as step 11 in the community FAQ:

FAQ: Amazon Echo: The Official SmartThings Integration is here! (Initial SetUp FAQ)

NEW: Alexa IFTTT Triggers As of November 12, 2015, there are now two official ways to integrate Alexa and SmartThings. The first way is fast and simple, and can do any one thing that you can do in the official SmartThings IFTTT channel. You pick any phrase you want to use, and use that as the “if” in the Alexa channel at IFTTT for a new recipe. Then you just pick from the dropdown options in the SmartThings IFTTT channel as the “that.” To use a recipe, you say “Alexa, trigger {my phrase}.” So you could say “Alexa, trigger open the pod bay doors” to open your garage door, “Alexa, trigger autodestruct” to turn on your siren, “Alexa, trigger kitchen lights” to turn on your kitchen light. Whatever you want. This is the power of IFTTT, and why SmartThings having a channel there is so u…

I did so many different things with echo today that I’m not sure at what point in the process this happened but it definitely happened.

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