# Node red contrib-alexa-remote2

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [1 March 2023 11:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930 "2023-03-01T11:37:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 11:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/1 "2023-03-01T11:37:39Z")

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Hi everyone, I'm using the contrib-alexa-remote2 on device activity node.  
I logged in to the relevant page during the deployment phase and saved the cookies in my PI the only thing is that when I try to call an echo device in my home the status does not change from listening to event driven, how can I fix ?  
 ![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/4/c/4cfaf3d6ec028cca2d74c829cf58caeda3e195cb.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 12:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/2 "2023-03-01T12:12:39Z")

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Seems the cakebake is over a year with out upodate and several issues raised on device activity on github.

Try changing to remote2 applestrudel, updated 3 months ago and device activity is working fine for me.

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 12:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/3 "2023-03-01T12:17:06Z")

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yes sorry i meant i installed : node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 giving me that problem

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 12:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/4 "2023-03-01T12:23:23Z")

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Again try [node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-applestrudel](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-applestrudel)  
As node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 is 3 years almost without update and over 100 issues raised and not fixed.

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 13:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/6 "2023-03-01T13:52:24Z")

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I removed the previous one and installed the one you recommended but the problem persists

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/8 "2023-03-01T14:14:06Z")

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now when i enter my amazon and otp credentials i get this error.

 ![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/7/9/7941bb969e8770bfe5e536cebfbe47398c774238.png)

and inside node red i get this error:  
 ![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/1/2/1245900559a0dba518be711d9ff5cdb7cf4371bb.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/9 "2023-03-01T14:22:07Z")

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Problem does not persist, it is a different issue.

How are you setting password in the config?

Also delete any saved cookies/files etc

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/10 "2023-03-01T14:26:15Z")

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![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/6/b/6bbc77788ef686f76790b83660559b84540ee079.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/11 "2023-03-01T14:27:57Z")

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try using localhost or the machine ip address not test.local  
are you geeting the prompt to open ...:3456 in browser?:

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/12 "2023-03-01T14:30:57Z")

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same error

 ![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/e/7/e72792cfe4cf265f7d35de72d88ae9a8b46392b6.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/13 "2023-03-01T14:32:32Z")

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open browser with  
ip\_or\_localhost:3456  
and show us the page.

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/14 "2023-03-01T14:35:24Z")

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![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/d/8/d84fdc1f16113d5ca77dce9164c3392eff0b3ba7.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/15 "2023-03-01T14:36:19Z")

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did you delete the old cookie file?

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 14:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/16 "2023-03-01T14:37:11Z")

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yes, however now it works i restarted node red.  
thx 🙂

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 16:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/17 "2023-03-01T16:01:49Z")

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I'm sorry I have a question, how do I make my echodot wait for an answer?  
example:

(speak routine) what is 2+2 ?  
(echodot) "waits for an answer"  
(user) 4  
(spek routine) Correct!

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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:** [1 March 2023 16:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/18 "2023-03-01T16:07:43Z")

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That is not really possible with Alexa Remote 2. You would have to create you own skill for this.  
The nearest you could get would be this approach - but interactive tasks like this would be very difficult.

> [@Pure fun with Alexa and Alexa Skills](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pure-fun-with-alexa-and-alexa-skills/46867):
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> Now the authentication problem with various Alexa nodes has been sorted I thought I'd try something new. I used [BluePrints](https://blueprints.amazon.co.uk/home) to create a Q&A skill called 'Give me a status report' then linked that in the flow below. I've arranged for various devices around my home to report their status to a database that is accessed from the flow and sent to the appropriate Alexa device. Here's an example of capturing feedback from Sonoff-S20 switches and writing the status to a dB.

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 16:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/19 "2023-03-01T16:10:18Z")

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thank you very much for the answer, yes I was able to create the skill and it works correctly but I needed it that node red did it 🥲

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**Author:** ![Giacomo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Giacomo23](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Giacomo23)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 16:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/20 "2023-03-01T16:12:52Z")

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Is it possible to use the skill id on another amazon account?

![11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/d/d/ddf41a1097b974f6ccdc49718b64e29559fa1782.png)

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**Author:** ![E1cid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/e1cid/32/77971_2.png) [@E1cid](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/E1cid)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2023 16:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/21 "2023-03-01T16:24:51Z")

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Yes you should be able to have two alexa configs, so possible to have one node for each account.

> [@Giacomo23](#):
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> thank you very much for the answer, yes I was able to create the skill and it works correctly but I needed it that node red did it

Maybe you can share how for others.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [30 April 2023 16:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2/75930/22 "2023-04-30T16:25:49Z")

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