I have a Smartthings socket that I plugged a lamp into. I assigned a lamp icon to it, and I now have Echo integrated and it could see it.
But this afternoon, Echo quit seeing this particular device, and the icon in my Smartthings app shows a generic socket…and gives me no option to change the icon. I can’t figure out what happened. I can still turn the lamp on/off via the Smartthings app, but Echo can’t see or discover it. Strange.
Edit: I did a little searching and the icon problem seems like an old one (I found similar posts from Dec last year).
On a side note, my Smarthings Android app has crashed 3 times this afternoon also…that’s new.
Interesting. I totally removed the Smartpower Outlet, and then repaired it with Smartthings. I then rebooted the hub. Still no change…I am only offered the default icon. The Smartthings app won’t give me the option of changing the icon.
And Echo can’t see the Smartpower Outlet either…even though it shows up in the Smartthings app, and I can control it via the Smartthings app.
So it seems to be Smartpower Outlet specific…since all of my other devices are fine (and I only have 1 Smartpower Outlet).
Frustrating, because everything was working just fine 4 hours ago, when I initially installed Echo and had it discover my devices.
The issue with the icons has nothing to do with the echo, I don’t know about that problem.
Apparently the device for the zigbee outlets was updated, and the icon preference was removed. Two separate issues, though the cause may be the same.
Interesting. I do think the issues are related…happened at the same time.
I only figured out the Echo part when I tried to demo Echo to my wife. “Alexa, turn on the Den lamp”…“I’m sorry, there is no device with that name in your list”. After asking Alexa 4 more times, I gave up and tried another device and that worked. My wife is skeptical about Alexa (asked me how much it cost…never a good sign).
I didn’t make any changes in the last two days, but my switches changed on their own again in the IDE back to being binary switches, which brokethe logic. So I went ahead and I’m going to take them all out and put them back in and see what happens.
Update: My Smartpower icon is still good, but my Smartpower Outlet is “offline” again according to Echo. It looks/works ok in the Smartthings app. I’ve tried removing it and rediscovering it…Echo discovers it fine, but still says it is “offline”, so it can’t control it. All other devices seem to be ok.
I have GE link light that sometimes isn’t coming on when triggered by a motion sensor, but I think that is unrelated (but they are both Zigbee).
