Imagine an invisible line between your Amazon Echo and your router, taking note of everything that it crosses. If the connection goes through a wall, it may be worth positioning the router or the Amazon Echo to avoid it, as the wall may be interfering with the signal. Likewise, if there are any metal objects or Wi-Fi-enabled devices in the way, move them out of the way or position your Echo and router around them. These also can mess up your connection and make it spotty.
Here's How to Fix It. If all else fails, you can factory reset the Echo and get it connected up again. We covered this in our guide on how to reset your Amazon Echo if it stops listening , so give it a read and follow the instructions. If you're struggling to get your Amazon Echo online, don't worry. It's very easy to get your Amazon Echo connected to your Wi-Fi, regardless of whether it's your first time setting up the device or if you change want to switch the smart speaker to another router.
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Browse All News Articles. Windows 11 Performance. This project works with ESP We give the instructions on how to make it work with the ESP Yes, you are right, sorry! I must have missed part of the board description and got confused with it saying the board had 36 GPIOs, when the board itself only has 30 pins.
Hi Sara. I have tried all examples and i have tried tools Lwip 1. Can you please help me. I noticed as soon as I asked Alex the serial monitor would crash and restart and never find devices.
Hi Sara and Ruis. Thank you for you outstanding work and generosity. As a retired 71 years old electronics engineer with a master long time ago in industrial electronics, I cherish my retirement playing with Arduino, ESP … and your site is a great source of inspiration. Used sinric to do it, but sinric became sinric-pro and my sketch stopped working. I thought that using fauxmo will let me circumvent the issue, since it worked some time ago.
Alas, the sketch which used fauxmo also stopped working. Solved physical device responding using a scope and comparing the patterns sent by the sketch which included use of fauxmoESP vs. It turns out that the sketch using fauxmoESP does not need the final 10 out of 77 intervals of 38kHz pulses. No clue why, but trimming the pattern to 67 just works. Sara, Ruis and all of you please stay healthy. Wattage would be governed by the relay contacts and any limitations of current supplied by your 12v power supply.
Personally, I would use 60W max per relay. Hi Lance. We use these lamps because many people in our audience are beginners, so we prefer to show how to use relays using a 12V lamp instead of mains voltage. However, this tutorial could be easily applied to control any AC lamp. Regards, Sara. You can use the BitVoicer software. You can install it on your local computer in your home and do voice. This is a fantastic post!!! Definitely, add it to your course!
This is exactly a project I wanted to duplicate and was having difficulty with. WOW, good job. Can you help share the tutorial. But Alexa did not find any new devices when asked! I have Belkin Wemo smart home skill enabled What should I do next? I know there is some issues with 2nd Generation Echo Dot with Fauxmo. You might try the solution they mention on this link. Hi Mike. We need to update this tutorial for the new generation of Echos. We need to get the 3rd generation to test everything.
Just found a workaround in this post: bitbucket. I know this is a super old issue. Thanks for an awesome walk through! In Asia, where almost all these devices originate, it really is more or less a free to use for anything band. Alexa could not find new devises. I tried to get it discovered by Amazon Alexa app as mentioned in your tutorial but without any success. Will it work if I connect it only by Amazon dot?
I hope this helps. This project works great. Currently, I am looking for something to control mhz outlets with alexa, can you recommend me where to look? Best Regards. Hi Jose. Hello Sara.
As I am not a programmer, I had to use copy and paste, of several different projects, until I got it to work. I use it, for lights, irrigation, air conditioning, etc. Then, you need to find the values sent by the transmitter to turn the sockets on and off. You can take a look at the first part of this tutorial to learn how to do that: ESP Remote Controlled Sockets Finally, you need to modify the code in the Alexa tutorial as follows.
In the following part of the code, in the first if statement, instead of using digitalWrite , you should write the command to send the right RF signals to turn the socket on. And in the second if statement you should send the RF command to turn the socket off. I have added the code to use my etekcity mhz outlets, and now I can use it, to control them with my Alexa Echo Dot.
I have connected a transmitter, and I am using the project, for the lights of my bedside tables, and at the same time controlling the lights from the living room, kitchen, entrance, backyard, etc.
I guess you can control other outlets, and other devices, just by sniffing codes. I hope this can be useful to other people. Depending on your exact needs, this project would work fine except for the relay board. You would need to look at other relay boards to find ones that have suitably rated relays for the amperage you wish to use. OR you could simply build your own power relay board and use this project to turn on your home made relay board instead of 12 volt bulbs.
Hi Sascha. Did you modify our code example? Please double-check your code indentation is correct. Did somebody already tested for this environment? Hi Duncan. There are other people reporting that error. Maybe it has something to do with some library updates. Meanwhile if you find what is causing the error, please let us know. Overwriting the old version with the new version fixed that particular problem. The method used by the library has changed significantly, which means that earlier examples of programs that use the library now throw other errors….
I tried your earlier Sonoff and Alexa example and that continually throws watchdog resets. I think it would be useful to include the version of all libraries you use as a comment. Thank you for sharing your solution. You are right, sometimes when the libraries update, older examples no longer work. So, it would be useful to include the library version.
Thank you. Neither of my two new 3rd Generation Echo Dots would find new Fauxmo devices — ask the 2nd Gen Dot and it found everything immediately.
Can you follow the suggestions in this topic and see if it works? This doesnt work? ESP32 connected and doesnt compile?
Hi Phil. Can you follow the suggestions on this topic and see if it works? Are you using the latest version of the FauxmoESP library? Can you remove the old installation, re-download the latest version? Does it work now? Hi, thank you for sharing that solution.
The code we have in the example no longer works with the old version of the library. Can you help me? Greetings Mario. Hi Mario. Our example works with an older version of the library 2. You can go to bitbucket and downloaded version 2. Lamp one and Lamp two will be found. Thank you so much for sharing this solution. Thank you, Regards, Sara. Some things puzzled me: Do alexa black boxes recognise Portuguese or French, or Arabic sentences?
Hi Dennis. In my Alexa app, it supports these languages: English with different accents , French with different accents , Deutsch, and Chinese. Great tutorial, thanks. Any ideas why that would be. Thanks again for this tutorial. Hi David.
Without any further information, it is difficult to find out what is going on. Your code seems good. Do you get any errors? If I set the pinMode for relay 3 and 4 I do get an error. Hello David. I am wondering if you have solved this problem yet? I have the same issue with pins 4, 12, and 5 being discovered, but cannot find another viable pin.
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