Echo Speaks - Suddenly started saying odd things!

Devices & Integrations
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Folks,

I’ve suddenly started getting some strange behaviour from Echo Speaks Pistons.

Up until yesterday everything was fine. Now, when my Echo devices speak, prior to the actual speech I want it to say it says, “Amazon forced unit selection” then speaks and then says something like, “Forward slash less than amazon forced unit selection”

I did try to install it on my old account (long story - but I have two Smartthings users running on one account - I can see some smart apps on one and not on the other etc.)

Can anyone please help out with what it happening?

Rich

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Cheers Eric.

Looks like it’s an Echo Speaks issue.

Rich

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Same issue. Does Not occur if you play to all, but ‘forcing the unit selection’ ie: playing to one device or multiple is causing the messaging.

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I have the same issue.

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Same issue with Ask Alexa. Started sometime today.

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Same issue, started this afternoon.

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Which is great - I spent hours yesterday coding a Piston so that if I have any security alerts at certain times the Echo next to my bed sets the volume loud and tells me which device has triggered!

Looks like until a solution is found I’m going to have to pause all those alerts… :confused: :slightly_frowning_face:

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I’ve just seen on Faceache that there is an issue at Amazon. They have acknowledged it and are working on it. Apparently its doing the same on simple Alexa routines.

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So… what happened to the Echo Speaks threads on this forum? Was the lite version released?

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Echo Speaks was shut down. The echo speaks thread was removed. No lite version and probably will never be released.

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Thx for the update!