Alexa and Insteon

[Steve Horn]

Has anyone else run into this? Using Alexa to turn on (and occasionally off) a device (lamp, etc.), "She" will most times here reply with "Sorry the Housebot device <whatever> is not responding. Please check its network connection and power supply." (It says something when I can type that from memory.) Delivery of that message just proceeds the device turning on normally! It would appear to be a timing issue. That is, HB and the Insteon PLM cannot respond fast enough to satisfy the request from/through the Alexa process... whatever that is. Obviously not a serious problem; just annoying.

[ScottBot]

Steve,

Yes, I've been seeing that more lately too. I haven't had a chance to look into it, and it's going to be tricky to troubleshoot since it's intermittent.

[Steve Horn]

Good to hear, sort of. Glad I'm not the only one. And yes, it is intermittent here too. And annoying.