Alexa Skill not finding devices

Hi,

Hope everyone in the uk is enjoying the nice weather.

I have just moved my HA install from old 32 bit hardware to a new 64 bit x86 based box with a new zigbee network coordinator and Zwave dongle. After a day or two of re-adding devices etc I am almost back to where I was but I have one problem I cant fix , so I was hoping for some help if possible please.

The problem is the Home Assistant skill in Alex . I have it enabled but it no longer finds any devices/scenes etc in HA. I have tried to disable and re-enable the skill . I spent an hour removing all the old devices from the Alex app but still I cant get it to work.

Does anyone have any ideas why it no longer works?

Second question is I was using it to run certain routines, is there an alternative voice assistant I can use that does work with HA … keeping in mind I have a number of Alexa all over the house so they are the voice pick up points.

I’m grateful for any help , thank you.

Andy

Just to add. I found a fix of sorts. Under voice assistant setting you need to expose the items to Alexa. Once I did this it work for a lot of them but not for everything and you need to keep disabling the skills and re-enabling it to find any new devices if you change the exposed settings. It worked so much better before , not sure what changed.

Have you tried saying “Alexa, discover devices”? I’m fairly certain that should work without having to disable & enable the skill.

Didn’t know I can do that , good tip thank you.

Cant understand why its finding old devices from my previous HA box that is now disconnected and switched off thou …

Because you didn’t delete them from the Alexa app?

Haven’t used mine in a while, but I seem to remember the Alexa app won’t remove devices by itself, even if they no longer exist. It’ll keep marking them as unavailable or offline until you remove them manually.

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Same here. The Alexa App will keep the old devices most likely because it thinks they are simply turned off. I have experienced the app doing the same with Amazon devices.

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