Somebody on the board with an Echo2?

OrTiN

Hi,
I’m currently trying to couple my new Echo2 with pimaitc, but it doesn’t work. I was already in touch with michbeck100, but he has really no idea why the new Echo doesn’t find pimatic as device… When I’m correctly informed it works with a Dot 2. Pimaitc will be found by the Echo 2 as well, when a Dot 2 is in the network, but never test it.
Is somebody here who has the new Echo 2 running together with pimatic?

kosta

maybe because of this?:
firetvstick2 has also smart-home support but doesn’t see devices.
echo2 is missing in the list

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201749240

Discovering smart home devices without a skill
Some devices don’t require a skill to connect to Alexa, including:
Philips Hue devices connected to Alexa with the V1 Hue Bridge (circle-shaped). If you have a Phillips Hue bridge, press the button on the bridge before you ask Alexa to discover your devices.
Note: Keep in mind that these devices can only turn on/off or brighten lights:
Echo (1st Generation)
Echo Plus
Echo Dot
Amazon Tap

OrTiN

That’s a good hint. Will contact the support.

OrTiN

On the German Amazon support side (https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201749240) there are less devices with non skill support:

Its only

Amazon Echo
Echo Dot

Seems I need a Dot to make it running…

michbeck100

@ortin Which echo are you using?

OrTiN

Echo 2 = new Echo (2nd gen.)

michbeck100

Please try to set the port to 80. This seems to be necessary (see https://www.alefo.de/ha-bridge-f59/alex-echo-plus-habridge-t3980.html)

OrTiN

Okay, we have some proceed. With port 80 the activated devices gets discovered. But when I try to switch one of the devices on or off I get a negative response like “No response from Server” (Server reagiert nicht) or from Alexa “Device does not react” (Gerät reagiert nicht).
The Devices are shown as Royal Philips Eletronics intelligant Device. Don’t know if this is correct.

BTW: I had the chance to test today with a Echo Dot. This work without any change in the config!

michbeck100

@ortin please check for any errors in the pimatic log.

OrTiN

Here the related part of the log when I try to switch on the a switch via Alexa App. The switch gets ever to the state on.

07:59:52.643 [pimatic-echo] debug: changing state for Saugron: {"on":true}
SyntaxError: Unexpected token o
    at Object.parse (native)
    at Object.devices.(anonymous function).changeState (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/echo.coffee:73:32)
    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/echo.coffee:291:27
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at next (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13)
    at Route.dispatch (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3)
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:281:22
    at param (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:354:14)
    at param (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:365:14)
    at param (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:365:14)
    at Function.process_params (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:410:3)
    at next (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/echo.coffee:248:11
    at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)
    at trim_prefix (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:317:13)
    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:284:7
    at Function.process_params (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:335:12)
    at next (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:275:10)
    at /home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/body-parser/lib/read.js:130:5
    at invokeCallback (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:224:16)
    at done (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:213:7)
    at IncomingMessage.onEnd (/home/pi/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-echo/node_modules/body-parser/node_modules/raw-body/index.js:273:7)
    at emitNone (events.js:67:13)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:166:7)
    at endReadableNT (_stream_readable.js:923:12)
    at nextTickCallbackWith2Args (node.js:511:9)
    at process._tickCallback (node.js:425:17)

Is the switch type mentioned above the correct one?

michbeck100

@ortin I would need the complete payload that is send when changing the state. Please create an issue on github for this. Then set pimatic-echo to debug mode and post the log there. Most interesting part is the log output saying

Request to /api/[userid]/lights/[id]/state
Payload: [json]

The json in the payload is what contains the info of the new state. This seems to have a different layout as with the echo dot.

If you have the chance, the same output coming from the echo dot would be interesting, too.

OrTiN

I will try to make this evening a test with the Dot. But in general the log looks okay from you point of view, especially the discovered device type as asked before?

I created a new issue on git: https://github.com/michbeck100/pimatic-echo/issues/35