Happy Friday…A few things to mention this week!
I am updating the GE switches with a new version that gives more programmatic control over the various settings of the device. I had a few specific use cases where I could use them, and assume others could as well. You can get the new versions here:
I did get a final resolution on the NotifyMe skill:
As you might have noticed, notifications from Notify Me started working again on or about July 26 (hooray!)_
Amazon both “unclogged” our skill and shared with us their new notification limits: 5 notifications in a 5 minute period per user
As a result, this is exactly what Notify Me now enforces, ensuring no one user can break the skill again. If you try to send more than 5 notifications within a 5 minute period, Notify Me ignores your sixth request and returns the following error message:
{
error: “Too many requests”,
message: "Amazon enforces a limit of 5 notifications in a 5 minute period. Please wait at least 5 minutes before trying again.
}
About five minutes after you receive above error message, you should be able to send notifications again.
Thanks for your patience and support.
-The Thomptronics team
Finally, thanks to @ADHawk I pushed out a small update to Ask Alexa. It is JUST the IDE app and doesn’t make a significant change, but if you are having issues with PINs and SHM, this might be your fix. We are now at 2.3.9f.
Enjoy!