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Alexa devices working (e.g., as media players) but switches unavailable (including DND)

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Describe the bug My Alexa devices all show up and appear fine, but all the entities (including all switches) are grayed out and unavailable.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to ‘Integrations’
  2. Click on ‘XX devices’
  3. Click on one of my Echo devices
  4. Echo shows up under “Entities” heading with power button and volume slider, but everything under that is grayed out. This causes my automations that toggle the DND switches to fail. Announcements that use the Echo media players work fine.

Expected behavior The entities should be available.

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System details

  • Home-assistant (version): core-2021.9.7, supervisor-2021.09.6, Home Assistant OS 6.4
  • Hassio (Yes/No): No
  • alexa_media (version from const.py or HA startup): ? (I don’t know how to find this) I’m using v3.10.8 of the HACS integration
  • alexapy (version from pip show alexapy or HA startup): ? (I don’t know how to find this)
  • Amazon 2FA is enabled (y/n). We will not debug login issues if unanswered: Y

Logs Please provide logs. We’ll be most likely asking for them anyway.

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:36 (5 by maintainers)

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2reactions
alandtsecommented, Oct 18, 2021

Looks like websocket is working again at least in the US. That may resolve this. You may have to reload the integration or restart HA to reenable websocket.

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krelltunezcommented, Oct 15, 2021

Mine are less chaotic:

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