I purchased a Hubitat hub today to replace Samsung Smarthings Hub. I added two GE Z-Wave switches, one single pole light switch and one fan controller. Unfortunately, when trying to control the fan switch with Alexa, a few things seem to be wrong.
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Alexa says the device is not responding when it did turn the fan off and on.
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When adding the fan switch to an Alexa group, the fan icon does not appear in the group. When I look at and edit the Alexa group, I see the switch selected.
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When giving Alexa the command to turn off the fan by telling her to turn off the "Fan", she responds okay, but the fan never turns off or on.
@ksorensen, there is an option in the Alexa integration that, as I understand, was added to resolve the issue you mention in your point 1. Above:
If you haven’t tried this yet, give it a go to see if it works.
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Thanks for the tip; however, before it was taking Alexa a minute or so to say the device was not responding, Now, she responds immediately and says "I'm not sure what went wrong." But the fan did turn off/on. Go figure.
Oh, that’s odd... I haven’t used my fan much in the past months as I typically use it only in the summer - I wonder if this has changed...
In case there might be an issue on the Hubitat side, do you see any errors in your log related to this? Are you using a built-in driver or a custom (community) one?
I've been having the same issue with my echo dots taking about a minute to say a device, even virtual switches, aren't responding when I know whey did because of device(s) changing state. I have a virtual switch called bedtime that activates the rule of the same name and turns certain lights and motion rules off. I've had it say that individual bulbs weren't responding when I ask to turn on or off and they do as requested. This started in the last 2-3 weeks without any changes in most, of not all, of the devices. I honestly think this is on the hubitat side of things. I've tried your solution for now but it seems like a way to avoid vs fix as we'd not know if a device didn't respond for real or due to this issue.
Alexa went nuts for me a week ago, but it was many other skills and the Echo itself that was having problems as well. Not Hubitat specific.
However, this week, everything is normal again and there are no delays I'm experiencing. You might investigate devices or other software running on your network, LAN hardware performance, and disable any custom code on your hub (if any) to see if you can improve your performance issue.
