# Alexa 'On Device Activity' not working

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [30 August 2023 08:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901 "2023-08-30T08:33:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![franz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/franz/32/71949_2.png) [@franz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/franz)\
**Post date:** [19 October 2023 18:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/102 "2023-10-19T18:47:45Z")

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do you still have hopes that applestrudel will come back to work again? .Do we put a stone on it? (typical Italian quote) 😪

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [19 October 2023 19:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/103 "2023-10-19T19:15:05Z")

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Your guess is as good as mine

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**Author:** ![Sean-McG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sean-mcg/32/54677_2.png) [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Post date:** [20 October 2023 15:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/104 "2023-10-20T15:45:31Z")

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I get the feeling Amazon are actively breaking it 😉

I notice the Alexa web app has been retired too, I used that a lot 🤨

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**Author:** ![dynamicdave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dynamicdave/32/96_2.png) [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)\
**Post date:** [23 October 2023 07:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/105 "2023-10-23T07:09:21Z")

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Any news on getting the Alexa node to work again??

I tried performing a 'Fresh Authentication' and got sent (as usual) to the URL: localhost:3456  
The page I was sent to has changed and doesn't offer the option to login via my Amazon account.  
Have other people on the forum seen this, and if so, how have they managed to Initialise the node?

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [23 October 2023 08:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/106 "2023-10-23T08:20:25Z")

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> [@dynamicdave](#):
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> Have other people on the forum seen this,

Yes

Usually trying 3 different browsers with all the possible variations in IP address , twirling around 3 times and sacrifice of small animal usually works in the end

Not tried it recently so maybe more steps involved now 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sean-McG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sean-mcg/32/54677_2.png) [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Post date:** [23 October 2023 13:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/107 "2023-10-23T13:00:10Z")

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Dave - see post above yours 😉

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [26 October 2023 11:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/109 "2023-10-26T11:49:38Z")

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There's a bit of progress 🙂

Not fully got my head around what's possible and what's not but it's better than nothing 🙂

> <https://github.com/bbindreiter/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-applestrudel/issues/152#issuecomment-1780386326>
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> Several of us on the Node-RED forum have noticed that events are not being recei…ved
> From my own logs - this started after 14:33 GMT
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> Stopping/starting NR doesn't make it work again :(

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**Author:** ![Sean-McG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sean-mcg/32/54677_2.png) [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Post date:** [26 October 2023 13:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/110 "2023-10-26T13:40:46Z")

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I have been using a similar work around with routines and a virtual device. The virtual device triggers the "alexa other" node, setup to query the last activity. In that message you can see what was said and which echo was used.

This WAS working fine until I just checked today, and its also now broken -

> <https://github.com/bbindreiter/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-applestrudel/issues/138#issuecomment-1779797710>
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> I'm unsure what happened, but I'm using this node-red integration for my home as…sistant setup. It was working earlier this morning, but now the Alexa events are no longer firing, even though I haven't changed anything. I tried reloading the Alexa login, restarting node-red, and restarting home assistant, but none of that seemed to work. I'm on the latest version of the node. Any advice or fixes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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> Edit: The whole node isn't broken, sending commands to Alexa still works, the node just won't fire events from Alexa

This node now returns an error "Error: No JSON at handleR"

A catch node reveals why -

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A big thankyou to amazon 🙄

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**Author:** ![Sean-McG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/sean-mcg/32/54677_2.png) [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)\
**Post date:** [27 October 2023 16:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/111 "2023-10-27T16:23:05Z")

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Updated node is now available which fixes the above problem 🙂

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [27 October 2023 16:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/112 "2023-10-27T16:24:48Z")

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The fix is nearly here 🙂

I just tried bodging my system with the latest changes from the alexa-remote dependency and its working again 🙂  
Hopefully available publicly within a few hours 🙂

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**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\
**Post date:** [27 October 2023 16:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/113 "2023-10-27T16:58:53Z")

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Works for me (at the moment).

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [27 October 2023 17:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/114 "2023-10-27T17:29:01Z")

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Looks like the update has been released as V5.0.45

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**Author:** ![dynamicdave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dynamicdave/32/96_2.png) [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)\
**Post date:** [27 October 2023 17:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/115 "2023-10-27T17:33:37Z")

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I think there was a release v5.0.44 quickly followed with v5.0.45  
v5.0.45 is working with my NR flows again.  
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to sorting out the issue.  
I can now turn items On and Off again in my home.

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**Author:** ![ghayne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ghayne/32/39_2.png) [@ghayne](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ghayne)\
**Post date:** [27 October 2023 17:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/116 "2023-10-27T17:53:47Z")

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> [@dynamicdave](#):
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> I can now turn items On and Off again in my home.

Hopefully for a long time 🙂

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**Author:** ![franz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/franz/32/71949_2.png) [@franz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/franz)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2023 08:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/117 "2023-10-29T08:09:55Z")

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it doesn't work here , i updated to the new version ,i updated the applestrudel cookie . i get this:  
 ![Schermata del 2023-10-29 08.51.59](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/a/0/a06e87c4df47893f2b0e263f819c8c0f22cff2a5.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2023 08:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/118 "2023-10-29T08:17:47Z")

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That looks like a different problem. ☹

I suggest that you open up a new thread about it

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**Author:** ![franz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/franz/32/71949_2.png) [@franz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/franz)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2023 08:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/119 "2023-10-29T08:26:26Z")

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says to change the credentials in the settings file of nodered , I changed , the 'warning no longer appears but applestrudel does not work

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2023 11:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/120 "2023-10-29T11:48:41Z")

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V5.0.46 has been released with further improvements

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**Author:** ![franz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/franz/32/71949_2.png) [@franz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/franz)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2023 12:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/121 "2023-10-29T12:51:19Z")

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Now it seems to work , however I still can't activate the groups. very good again at troubleshooting!

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**Author:** ![Buckskin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Buckskin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Buckskin)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2023 19:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-on-device-activity-not-working/80901/122 "2023-10-29T19:53:01Z")

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I no longer get the cookie as an output from the Initialise node. Is there some change I should be looking at?

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