Alexa-remote2 giving 'failed to load routines: "no body"'

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Hi all, I've used node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 in the past and it's been great. I've been trying to get it working again, and I've now tried all of the forks, even the most recent node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-mattl0 by @MattL0 but I am getting 'failed to load routines: "no body"' so I suspect Amazon have changed something recently.

Matt's version uses the most recent alexa-remote2 dependency, ver 5.10.1 so I suspect there is a problem upstream causing the issue.

Any suggestions?

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I'm using node-red-contrib-alexa-remote-fork (not the latest Alexa node) and can report it still works works fine here in the UK. So I doubt if Amazon have changed anything recently.

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Thanks Dave. I'm in the UK too. I've just uninstalled the other one and tried the one you suggest but when I deploy, I get this:

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This is the flow I created to initialise my Alexa node every 12 hours.

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Thanks for sending me that Dave, I was previously using the auto init but I thought it was worth changing to try it out - it inits fine as you can see in the image but I still get the same error message.
I should add, I can create a flow with inject and an alexa routine which talks to me through an echo dot - that works fine when I trigger it. The problem is that the "On Device Activity" node does nothing when I activate on the echo dot whereas it always did in the past.

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No idea what could be wrong.
Have you tried re-booting the Raspberry Pi ??

When I ask Alexa something like... "Alexa, what time is it" the On Device Act node changes to 'event fired' which I can capture and decode in my flow.

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Thanks Dave, I wasn't able to reboot until today because it was in use for other things too however after a reboot, it's working correctly :sunglasses:

Just for the record, it's not running on a Rpi, it's running in a container on a Dell Wyse thin client which is also running home assistant, openmediavault and jellyfin - all working perfectly now, thanks :sunglasses:

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This thread of mine might give you some further ideas of what you can do with Alexa.
It makes use of BluePrints to intercept responses from Alexa.

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That looks great! - thanks for the heads up, I will take a look more closely.