Alexa SmartHome skill - not finding

[sciencegirl100]

Installed on my NodeMCU, went through Alexa app to add... nothing.
So, turns out you need the smart home skill for the devices you want to add.
The WeMo skill requires you to enter your wireless SSID and the WeMo device's MAC address.
This breaks the compatibility with these wemo emulator projects unfortunately.

So, has anyone gotten past this? Is there a generic smarthome skill I'm unaware of?

P.S. I made sure all devices were on the same network and I even reset my Echo Dot. Nothing :/

[dougstrickland]

Have you tried coding your ssid in your script?
like:

const char* ssid = "My_Network";
const char* password = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";

[sciencegirl100]

I set the SSID and WPA2 password, I was able to ping it from my PC as well as my phone from the same network that the Echo is on

[Braandn]

Same problem

[MacSass]

Same problem here - but only after my Alexa updated to the latest firmware.
Before I could discover the ESP emulated devices with no problem - you could monitor the answer to the Alexa search request in the serial console ...
Now, when I do a search, the ESP does not seem to "see" any broadcast request and does not respond - thus Alexa does not show any devices.
I will try with the WeMo skill, but if that required a MAC address and it only works this way it would mean we would need "false" MAC adresses???
As said - until lately no skill was needed and Alexa found the emulated Wemos devices on the ESP8266 with no problem ...

[MacSass]

Update:
Using my "old" Amazon Echo (1st generation) the devices are discovered with no skill required (no wemos skill activated). Devices can be controlled. The Echo FW version is 591448720.
The second generation Echo does not seem to be able to control or discover the devices with the latest Fw that was released today.
Looks like Amazon is really messing up big time with the second generation Echo (sound is way worse than with the old one - now this).
Let´s see if Amazon fixes that or if the kill my old Echo for this by updating it´s FW as well ...

[sciencegirl100]

maybe someone just needs to make a smart home skill for the ESP8266. I might give it a shot, but no guarantees.

[arnowillig]

@MacSass Same here, 2nd gen. Echo does not finde the devices, Echo FW version is 592452720.
However, the echo DOES send HTTP requests (GET to /setup.xml and /eventservice.xml and POST to /upnp/control/basicevent1).
POST body is this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"><s:Body><u:GetBinaryState xmlns:u="urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1"><BinaryState>1</BinaryState></u:GetBinaryState></s:Body></s:Envelope>

I think the echo tries to read the current state of the emulated WeMo switch, but then fails to enumerate the device. :-(

Anyone a solution yet?
akw

[kakopappa]

hello @MacSass @arnowillig @sciencedude100 @Braandn

Thank you for your input guys

I have added GetBinaryState support to single switch version. Can you guys test it and let me know. I have an Eco at home. It does not send GetBinaryState

https://gist.github.com/kakopappa/02299a8ceec0aaaad3ea3bd7f2af8066

[ma7gdp]

I just tried the code you have on a "WemosD1 mini" and the echo dot 2nd gen is still reports "No new devices found". The serial on the WemosD1 is outputting the usual though:

Sending response to 192.168.1.74
Port : 50000
Response sent !
192.168.1.74, port 50000
192.168.1.74, port 50000
########## Responding to setup.xml ... ########

Sending :urn:Belkin:device:controllee:1boxBelkin International Inc.Socket3.1415Belkin Plugin Socket 1.0
uuid:Socket-1_0-38323636-4558-4dda-9188-cda0e61957d9221517K01017690urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1urn:Belkin:serviceId:basicevent1/upnp/control/basicevent1/upnp/event/basicevent1/eventservice.xml

########## Responding to setup.xml ... ########

Sending :urn:Belkin:device:controllee:1boxBelkin International Inc.Socket3.1415Belkin Plugin Socket 1.0
uuid:Socket-1_0-38323636-4558-4dda-9188-cda0e61957d9221517K01017690urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1urn:Belkin:serviceId:basicevent1/upnp/control/basicevent1/upnp/event/basicevent1/eventservice.xml

[RootCNC]

Same, doesn't work with Sonos One with Alexa built in- unable to discover devices =[ great project and keep up the good work! I will be following it!

[kakopappa]

@RootCNC can you try https://gist.github.com/kakopappa/02299a8ceec0aaaad3ea3bd7f2af8066

[tommyfranke]

@kakopappa, thank's for the great work.
The above code works wonderful on my new Amazon Dot V2 with actual Firmware 595459620.
My Nodemcu was found at once, you don't need the Wemo-Skill!!!
Switching works fine.

Btw: It seems to me that the "eventservice.xml" never get called by Echo Dot, is it not needed?

[ZoMiGo]

hi i have Amazon Dot V2 with actual Firmware 595459620 my problem is alexa dont found any devices.
i use https://gist.github.com/kakopappa/02299a8ceec0aaaad3ea3bd7f2af8066

[arnowillig]

hi, same here. I got an Amazon Echo gen.2. Even with the original WeMo plug the Amazon Echo does not find the hardware. However, I can see the device is queried. Even an "GetDeviceState" upnp POST message is sent by the Echo hardware. Strange, hm? I suppose this is a bug in the firmware. My Amazon Echo gen.1 works beautifully with the original WeMo plug as well with a simulated device. Ciao, Arno 2017-12-06 13:02 GMT+01:00 Goran <notifications@github.com>:

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