Using Contact and Motion Sensors to Trigger Alexa Routines (DTH in post 97) (Official Amazon Feature)

[JDRoberts]

@Olympic_Spork

Is this method still supported? Alexa recognizes when the virtual switch is triggered but it will not trigger the Alexa outine. I can manually trigger the Alexa routine and it completes the task correctly. The automation I set up in ST to trigger the virtual switch is correct and works. But it doesn’t trigger the Alexa routine. Any help is greatly appreciated.

It’s unfortunately currently broken for some people, but not everyone. Engineering is aware of it and is working on it, but it’s weird. and annoying.

Virtual switches (alexa) keep braking