As I improve my environment - I'm relying more on the Amazon Echo Skill.
I think it was about a year ago, that, being delicate, voiced issues - about certain skill responses were failing - ie; alexa would say 'blah blah isn't responding' a new modification appeared:
The 'Respond immediately without waiting for device'. This did solve many items but in general it was harmful to my environment. Why do I feel I can say that? Because not ALL the devices had problems, more than most were already working correctly. IMHO it was a work around, not a fix. Regardless.
I submit that this should be 'per device'. It is NOT all or nothing. In fact, it breaks as much as it fixes. Today, working on more of my migration I kept getting 'Garage Door Failed to Respond', when, in fact it operated correctly (using a Tuya GDO with community created Simple GDO app- not that it should matter).
As you can see above, I enabled it. And the Vacuum broke. At least, the vacuum can no longer report it has returned to dock, as Alexa - not waiting around for things to occur, doesn't see the Vacuum hasn't yet returned to dock. This has worked since 2024 but is now forcing me to choose, do I want the Vacuum to work right or the GDO?
I'm certain my post on this is just for documentation purpose - but at least the wayback machine will see it when some future user stumbles on to it.
