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 slas…

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.

[image] Amazon alexa weird response Connected Things My echos are all answering me by saying “force unit selection” before and after all her responses. It’s not only happening my echo speaks pistons, but also custom responses that I have set up in routines in the Alexa mob…

Cheers Eric. Looks like it’s an Echo Speaks issue. Rich

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.

Same issue with Ask Alexa. Started sometime today.

Same issue, started this afternoon.

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: …

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

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

Echo Speaks - Suddenly started saying odd things!

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eric182 (Eman ym) January 23, 2020, 9:13pm 2

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