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An easy-to-use NodeRED node for adding Alexa capability to NodeRED. NO Alexa Skills required.
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Echo Dot V2 only discovers 16 alexa local nodes #81

Open coppo86 opened 5 years ago

coppo86 commented 5 years ago

I have spent some time trying to get reasonably large (approx 26) lightwave RF devices working using Alexa local nodes. It seems there is a limit of 16 devices. If I forget all and discover again it will add adifferent set of 16 nodes. The ones that are connected show up with a yellow dot under the node and a message of the form /lights (p38373).

The ones that are not discovered show up with a green button and the message of the form online (P37456)

If I discover again Alexa's list of devices will increase slightly but I only ever seem to have 16 working devices at any one time. After th second discover there will be 2 or 3 more reporting offline on the Alexa admin page.

The other devices outside of node red such as Harmony hub and woox wifi control sockets are always discovered correctly

Is there a quick fix or anything I can edit to sort this? I am an engineer but not a JS or linux expert - can usually find my way around things.

Cheers Coppo

AndreasPercher commented 5 years ago

Same Problem: 16 of 25 devices are listet online at https://alexa.amazon.de/spa/index.html#appliances New Devices will be found, sometimes a second third try may help, but existing devices will be skipped then. I guess it's a Alexa-Problem ;-(

nob0dy80 commented 5 years ago

cant confirm that. got 21 active devices. i'm scanning for new devices only with the amazon app on an android smartphone

AndreasPercher commented 5 years ago

It seems it was an Alexa problem, all 25 devices are online since last saturday.

coppo86 commented 5 years ago

I have been using Alexa home with about 30 devices and that works perfectly.

On 8 Jan 2019, 18:15, at 18:15, Andreas Percher notifications@github.com wrote:

It seems it was an Alexa problem, all 25 devices are online since last saturday.

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wongnam commented 5 years ago

I am too, over 16 devices already, but i am using 4 Echo Dot at home. As I know 1 Alexa-Local node is equal to 1 Philips Hue HUB, I just want to know how many Hue-hub an Echo device can handle.

@coppo86 May I know how many Echo Device do you have at the same network?

coppo86 commented 5 years ago

I’m not sure this will help but: I am running one echo dot and one echo plus. The Plus has a hue hub in it though I only have one real Phillips Hue device. I guess my setup has 2 hue hubs – the Alexa-local and the one in the plus. Either echo is quite happy controlling any device on either hub. I have not yet tried adding the echoplus hub to node-red.