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Alexa not discovering #10

Closed CurtisFeatures closed 4 years ago

CurtisFeatures commented 4 years ago

Hi, great work here as usual. I wonder if you could help, I have been using the MQTT blinds and it’s been working great. I’m trying to try out the Alexa version but having issues. I can flash the board and connect it to my WiFi giving it a name and everything. I can ping it so I know it’s connected to the WiFi however I’m unable to discover it in the Alexa app. I thought it might have been my WiFi at work causing issues but I’ve brought it home and reflagged and get the same issue here. I’ve never used Alexa before (google fan boy) so I’m not sure if I’m missing something.

CurtisFeatures commented 4 years ago

Iv made a bit of progress with this. I thought I would try flashing the fauxmoESP code onto the ESP8226 to see if I could get that to work. I didn't and had the same issues. Then I came across this issue post on BitBucket https://bitbucket.org/xoseperez/fauxmoesp/issues/58/v30-not-discovered-by-alexa with people having the same issue. Once I rolled back my board manager to 2.3.0 and changed by board rate to flash I was able to discover my device.

Now when I try to compile the hook ups code with the 2.3.0 board manager I'm getting a lot of error to do with WiFimanger and Webserver but I think this might be to do with mismatched versions so im going to try roll some of those back and see if it works.

CurtisFeatures commented 4 years ago

Rolling WiFiManager back to 0.12 fixed my compile issue with The Hook Up code. Now to try flash and see if I can detect by Alexa

CurtisFeatures commented 4 years ago

Got it working:

Board Manager: 2.3.0 WiFi Manager: 0.12.0 fauxmoESP: 3.1.0 Upload Speed: 230400 Must have an Echo device to discover within App. Will not work with only App discovery.

Hope this will help other people.