A little unreliable
DrJaymz opened this issue · 5 comments
I have made an aquarium light using this and I have set up routines to control it but it fails about 1/4 of the time. If I ask alexa to turn fish on, she says its not responding I ask again and she turns it on. It suggests too much going on in my main loop, but there isn't really anything except handle.
I thought maybe the wireless may be sleeping but its all pretty basic I am not trying to do anything clever.
I should add that my code is 80% same as the colour demo. I have seen a few threads and mention of a fix but all the threads just stop without a real conclusion.
Not a solution, but maybe a work around for now. Could you create 2 routines that could trigger the turning on and off of the lights twice just to see if that gets them on? I know how important aquarium lights are.
Ken
I would not think so. My Echo is on 5ghz also, and my ESP's respond. The lights I have on DIYHUE are usually always on, so I have not experienced your issue.
Ken
An update to Alexa has made this even less reliable. Pretty much doesn't work now. Now if it doesn't seem to respond for a bit she now doesn't respond to the name 'fish' at all. So the command turn fish on now responds with sorry i couldn't find a device or group named fish. It stays dead until you use the app. Then most of the time it says its unresponsive.
I think people not detecting the device is the same issue. I expect it's not responding to udp packets either correctly or quick enough.