@Lars (tagged you because i saw you are engineer - me too… this is a huge fix, i think)
TLDR: for some strange reason the word “light” or “lights” included in the name of the switch name in smarrthings made it work… excuse me while i hunt down a developer and beat them silly.
I also found that chandelier and bulb also work.
@ronczap reported that the word lamp works too.
@woodsby reports “Sconce” works as well
After the subsequent reported trigger words, at this point, there obviously is a library of “light indicators” in the smartthings skill that exports a different format to Alexa.
the “feel my pain” version below
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nope… same thing with that handler. i reverted to an older version and the device now show a difference in the way the levels are displayed. when it’s a switch, it’s “power level” and when it’s a light it displays “brightness”
this tells me someone is messing around in the groups portion of the app (like you said)
nothing shows in the logs - i was hoping a bad request or something might log.
i’m going to mess around with other versions
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you are NOT going to believe this @#L$HJK@# situation…
while troubleshooting, and installing older versions, i remembered i also had a dimmer switch in my bedroom. so i tried it, fully expecting it to fail.
well… IT DIDN’T. NOW REALLY WTF??? something must be different in the switches, right? no i dug in to look.
in groovy i looked for any differencse. noticed the room wasn’t assigned. maybe? so i switched that. NOPE. REALLY?!@?! COME ON MAN!!!
the switches were named Theater Front, Theater Rear, and Theater side. my bedroom switch is called “master fan lights”… it can’t be the word “lights” in the name, can it? i am a software engineer. “run it, see what it does” is literally my job. sooooo… i change the name to “theater front lights”
too stupid to work, right? WRONG
The effin’ things WORK!!!
i soooooooo want to look in the code to see what the hell is going on in there.
this has to be an amazon issue, but who knows. i’m going to call back on my support ticket with them. someone HAS to look into this. this is too weird to leave alone. these names are what they always were, so it worked without the word lights before, but something changed somewhere…
thank you for reading… my hyperfocused self can finally rest. whew…
well i couldn’t rest. so i tested some more. i found that when not containing the word “light” or “lights” in the name of the switch in smartthings, the device is registered differently in the alexa app.
when named “Theater front” in smarrthings, notice there are 4 options in the settings when imported to alexa
When the word “lights” is in the title in smartthings (“light” works too) it gets imported differently. notice the "color capabilities option. i tried changing the name in the alexa app and it didn’t work…
then this is what shows on the main device screen when imported with the word “lights” and you switch it to a “light” in the alexa device settings - the word “brightness” is back, not “power level”.
@ronczap also reported the word lamp works too.
THANK YOU!!! fredd0 OUT!!! (mic drop)