[NO LONGER SUPPORTED] Ask Alexa

I will post this in the 2.3.9 release notes as well, but working with some GREAT engineers at SmartThings I was able to work around the IDE Live Logging issue where the setup parameters page URL gets truncated when displayed. While it is being seen in Ask Alexa (because of the amount of data the app processes to display the setup variables) it is not directly caused by Ask Alexa. Either way, the bigger issue is for SmartThings to fix, but after I discovered WHY it was happening I was able to work around it.

Now, when you go to the Setup Variables or Cheat Sheet, the full setup information is NOT shown in your mobile browser. It was never intended to be used there; now it is just the direct instructions to go to Live Logging. I DO display the URL if you want to copy and e-mail it to yourself, but with the live logging now showing the full URL you shouldn’t have to e-mail it.

This is in version 2.4.0 which I will probably release next Friday. If anyone runs into truncation before then and can’t wait, PM me.

Thanks again to Vlad and Ryan at SmartThings for working with me, and @femwitjava, @joelw135 and @SecureIT for troubleshooting when I didn’t have the problem in my own logging.

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