Help with Action Node

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I am trying to use the Home Assistant Action Node to replace the long depreciated Apple Struedel Alexa nodes. I use the Action Node in a lot of other flows without problems, (mostly switch.turn_on/off), but when I try to use "notify.alexa_media_steve...", the node always shows "no connection".

When I run this in Developer Tools- Actions, it works fine.

action: notify.alexa_media_steve_s_echo_show_5_3rd_gen
data:
  message: This is a test

I wasted some time asking [he who must not be named], and the final suggestion was to delete my server configuration and start over with a new one. I am reluctant to do this because my server configuration touches 296 nodes that would have to be edited to point to the new server configuration.

Tips would be appreciated.

2

Hey, Steve. Could be the formatting. Have you tried clicking on the Load Example Data button to get a start?

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Thanks for the reply, yes, I did try the example data, but even if the data were malformed, why would the node say there's a connection error?

4

Make sure you do not have more than 1 home assistant server config node.

5

I did, but only one server node now. But why would this cause a connection error? I tried both server nodes.

As I said above, I have several other action nodes that use this server node and they have no issue. This, however, is the only node that runs the notify.alexa action.

But notify.alexa does work from Developer tools -> actions.

UPDATE. The Node Red Companion integration had some errors from a completely unrelated configuration file. When I deleted that configuration (it was unused anyway), my test flow to notify.alexa... works now.

Your replies did, however, get me to clean up my configurations and your replies are appreciated.