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[jkudave]

I've started seeing this in my logs every 1/2 hour for one of my Echo devices.

getPlaybackState | 400 Error | Msg: status code: 400, reason phrase: Bad Request

It's a Gen4 Echo Dot without clock. I have various lines commented in the app and device code per the posts below, but I am still seeing the error. Not sure when this started again at this point.

Echo Speaks error getDeviceActivity

It won't solve the issue with Amazon, but if you comment out line 2800 respExceptionHandler(ex, "getDeviceActivity") the error message should stop being generated.

Echo Speaks error getDeviceActivity

The error is a result of Echo Speaks used Alexa's unofficial API https://alexa.amazon.com/api/activities, it was removed since sometime Oct 2023. Actually, there are many integrations including IFTTT and HA were impacted too. HA implemented another hack by scrapping a webpage, which may break again at any time. Commenting out the line that writes the error to log does not prevent the HE from doing the meaningless work and wasting CPU time (handling exception is expensive). To stop the meaningle…

Anyone else seeing this error again? Anyone have a current fix?