TylerDurden:
One of the Shows has returned to normal functionality, as well as the dots. I still have one Show misbehaving, but no longer playing my mother’s Pandora stations. The folks didn’t do anything to cause it. I’m guessing this will clear up soon on its own.
When you added the dot at your parents’ house, by any chance do you have them set up with a smart things hub as well as a second location on your own account? Because that’s known to cause a lot of flakiness. There are a bunch of threads on this in the forum, here’s just one:
I just thought I’d post this in case it tripped up someone else
I already have an echo with a large amount of lights hooked up to it. I decided to buy an echo for my dad who has 5 lights total, and then set it up so that he could trigger them thru alexa with the smartthings integration. He has his own amazon account + smartthings account.
I went home and then noticed that none of my commands were working, and that only 5 lights were showing up in discovery after I deleted everything on Echo. This should have been the part where I realized what happened, but a few more hours would pass before that hit me.
After a few hours of troubleshooting I remembered that I granted myself access to his hub as a different location on my account. Apparently, if you have 2 locations Alexa can only cont…