### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [9 October 2021 10:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/1 "2021-10-09T10:04:34Z")
I've been using alexa-remote-event from node-red-contrib-alexa-remote-fork to listen to responses from Alexa. It's been working fine for months but today it just seems to ignore the verbal responses.
Has anyone else encountered this??
Would it be worth swapping over to alexa-remote2-applestrudel as that seems a more recent release??
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [9 October 2021 10:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/2 "2021-10-09T10:57:59Z")
Just went to try mine and it's not picking up what I say but is speaking which is the complete reversal of its standard faulty mode 🙂
From my logs, looks like it stopped outputting after Friday 21:00 UTC last night
I'm on a slightly patched original remote2
stop/restarting NR has made no diff
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### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [9 October 2021 12:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/3 "2021-10-09T12:43:46Z")
Thanks Simon for your feedback - as least it confirms I'm not going crazy!!!
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### Author:  [@steff](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/steff)
#### Post date: [10 October 2021 07:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/4 "2021-10-10T07:48:19Z")
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> It seems that Amazon broke or changed something - we will see this in some days …... The push connection is not able to connect.
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> if you are experienced in network analyssis (wireshark or such) please contact me
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> If you are a user affected by the issue please DO NOT post a "mee too" comment, but "thumbs up" here please
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### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [10 October 2021 07:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/5 "2021-10-10T07:51:30Z")
Hi Steff,
Thanks for the heads-up on that.
I hope it gets fixed soon as I'm working on creating a project using Alexa for my IoT students.
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### Author:  [@mooreorless555](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mooreorless555)
#### Post date: [10 October 2021 08:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/6 "2021-10-10T08:01:20Z")
Really glad to know I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. I'll be following the thread on GitHub- thanks for flagging that!
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [11 October 2021 14:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/7 "2021-10-11T14:03:40Z")
applestrudel update is out
> **[node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-applestrudel](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-applestrudel)**
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> node-red nodes for interacting with alexa
I'm having to update my node,js version as the main node [Apollon77/alexa-remote](https://github.com/Apollon77/alexa-remote) doesn't support V10 anymore
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### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [11 October 2021 18:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/8 "2021-10-11T18:06:23Z")
Thanks Simon @cymplecy ,
I can report I've installed AppleStrudel and can (thankfully) capture verbal responses from Alexa again.
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [11 October 2021 18:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/9 "2021-10-11T18:28:50Z")
After update it "did" work a few times but seems broken again 🥺
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### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [11 October 2021 18:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/10 "2021-10-11T18:33:54Z")
Still working for me here in the UK.
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [11 October 2021 18:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/11 "2021-10-11T18:34:43Z")
Just rebooted my pi4 and working again, will have to see how it goes 😉
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### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [11 October 2021 18:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/12 "2021-10-11T18:35:29Z")
Fingers crossed for you.
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [11 October 2021 18:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/13 "2021-10-11T18:50:50Z")
looks like reboot broke influxdb, the joys of computing ..........
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [12 October 2021 09:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/14 "2021-10-12T09:21:25Z")
After 24 hours of fiddling around - finally got applestrudel installed (on its own without any legacy nodes getting installed/re-installed) and NR can now hear Alexa commands again 🙂
Of course, now that I've got it listening again - I've got the old problem of it's not speaking to me 🙂
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [12 October 2021 09:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/15 "2021-10-12T09:33:23Z")
Well - simple press of my initiliase inject and it's speaking to me 🙂
but ... 🙂
it seems like the message structure has changed
I start my processing using
and there is no payload.activity status object anymore in the message ☹
(This is with saying "Alexa, Simon says test")
So I'll need to investigate what I need to do
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [12 October 2021 09:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/16 "2021-10-12T09:55:39Z")
I've removed the if test and all seems OK 🙂
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### Author:  [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [12 October 2021 10:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/17 "2021-10-12T10:44:37Z")
I've managed to get my flow working again with the updated Alexa (applestrudel) node.
Here's what the code looks like in the function node 'Capture question'.
```auto
var device_name = msg.payload.name;
var summary = msg.payload.description.summary;
if ((summary != "alexa") && (summary != "")) {
msg.payload = {};
msg = {
topic: "Alexa_response",
device_name: device_name,
payload: {
"summary": summary
}
}
node.status({text:"Device_name is "+ device_name + " Summary = " + summary});
return msg;
}
else {
return null;
}
```
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [12 October 2021 14:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/18 "2021-10-12T14:34:08Z")
Yep - I do the same
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [25 November 2021 08:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/19 "2021-11-25T08:47:32Z")
12 posts were split to a new topic: [Trouble getting started with Alexa-remote](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/trouble-getting-started-with-alexa-remote/54254)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [24 January 2022 08:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/alexa-remote-event-not-working/52035/20 "2022-01-24T08:48:27Z")
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