Alexa won't discover Zwave devices after renaming them

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Alexa had no issues discovering my zwave devices the first time. And, I could control them ok using the echo.

But, after changing the device names, and deleting the devices from the Alexa app, they will no longer discover.

When I ask Alexa to discover, it returns with "sorry, no new devices found".

I tried rebooting the hub, but it didn't help.

Any suggestions?

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Did you go in to the Amazon Echo Skill on the hub apps, and select the newly named device, then Done? Try unselecting, Done, then selecting, Done. That’s what I have done.

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Thanks for the suggestion, but that didn't fix it. Before I tried it, I saw this in the log:

2021-05-24 10:26:55.880 am errorError making Call to Alexa message gateway: {"header":{"namespace":"System","name":"Exception","messageId":"6803c8cb-610f-4166-af61-ec38658cb2b0"},"payload":{"code":"INVALID_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXCEPTION","description":"Access token is not valid."}}

app:682021-05-24 10:26:55.668 am errorError making Call to refresh Token: [error_description:The request is missing a required parameter : refresh_token, error:invalid_request]

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So, errors like this are in the logs when I enable/disable devices in the Hub' Amazon Alexa Skill app:

2021-05-24 10:38:37.716 am errorError making Call to Alexa message gateway: {"header":{"namespace":"System","name":"Exception","messageId":"84d4a9c5-8a27-4bb9-ad59-d8e612e9563a"},"payload":{"code":"INVALID_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXCEPTION","description":"Access token is not valid."}}

app:682021-05-24 10:38:37.388 am errorError making Call to Alexa message gateway: {"header":{"namespace":"System","name":"Exception","messageId":"973976f4-c4f6-4785-8c6a-2f61847873e3"},"payload":{"code":"INVALID_ACCESS_TOKEN_EXCEPTION","description":"Access token is not valid."}}

app:682021-05-24 10:38:37.355 am errorError making Call to refresh Token: [error_description:The request is missing a required parameter : refresh_token, error:invalid_request]

app:682021-05-24 10:38:37.189 am errorError making Call to refresh Token: [error_description:The request is missing a required parameter : refresh_token, error:invalid_request]

app:682021-05-24 10:33:28.840 am errorError making Call to Alexa message gateway: {"header":{"namespace":"System","name":"Exception","messageId":"0c5498de-c496-437b-ba06-a2caf221fbd4"},"payload":

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So, it seems like the Hub's app has saved a stale token? Or, it's not providing a token that's required?

How to fix?

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The error messages occur when deselecting devices from the Hub's Amazon Alexa Skill app. But, I don't get them when I add (select) devices.

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I went into the Alexa skill in alexa.amazon.com and disabled the hubitat skill there. Then I re-enabled it and was presented with the zwave devices with the new names.

Everything working now. So, for me, disabling and re-enabling the skill (not on the hub, but in the Alexa app) fixed the issue.

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