Obtaining last Alexa device called using

General
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I can't replicate the issue now :man_shrugging:
I've tried all sorts of commands in varied orders - but it's not happening - it's responding from the Alexa that's spoken to. So not sure what happened before when I posted!
I've got a debug node there so I'll post the code if it does it again!

That's neat - I don't think I update the utterances enough to need it, but i'm going to keep that in the back pocket!

Doesn't seem to be working for me tho :frowning:

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My routine is called Boost Heating and has three utterances as described, but the output from the debug nodes is

msg.utterances : array[0]
[ empty ]

msg.payload.name : undefined
undefined
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What is the output of the other node routine, show us the object for the Boost Heating routine.

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Sadly I can't do anything right now...
I'm getting an error on the Get Activities node saying
"Activity update is running, please try again later."

Been doing this since last night :frowning:

Every other GET action seems to work (so not an auth error), but the activities one gives that error :cry:

Anyone any ideas?
I see a few threads about it e.g. here

EDIT: Looks like it needs a delay. I noticed if I injected manually it was working, but a 1 second wasn't sufficient, so I'm at 2 seconds now and seems to be working

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Is there any way to catch that error?

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I thought this (or some variant of it) would do it, but it doesn't seem to output from what I can see

EDIT: Solving my own issues and teaching an old dog new tricks this morning - catch node :slight_smile:

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This is giving me a headache now...

For some reason the boost heating node is giving me an error when run through this flow:

HomeAssistantError: not a valid value @ data['recordKey']

But I'm not sending an record key

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If I inject directly, the node works fine. If i set the payload to blank string in the clear the payload the node works fine (but then I obviously stop passing the room to the speak node)

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Not sure I can help with the HA side. I would probably try to do all this in Node-red without HA. I would need to see the messages feed into and out of the alexa other node.

What are the api call node devices that the flow finally sends messages to?

You can use node-red-contrib-amazon-echo (node) - Node-RED which runs locally (old but still working fine)
Or node-red-contrib-virtual-smart-home (node) - Node-RED which I know others use.

You can make one switch do may things by having the routine set a dim level which you can use in node-red to filter to correct flow.

Again the more info we can see the easier it is to help.

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Sorry for slow reply - busy weekend!

I solved it by just sticking a change node and resetting the payload before that call - I suspect something was passing through the flow which was causing issues on the HA side - all good now :slight_smile:

One question I did have -
The error catching node below - it works as expected, but in a scenario where it never finishes for some reason, it's just going to keep looping

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Is there some way to give a maximum number of times it should push through (e.g. in my case it's trying every second, but can I make it try every second for 10 seconds and then give up until the initial trigger is hit again?

I did briefly try this with a counter but it got extremely complex extremely quickly and I decided there must be an easier way to do this?!

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I thought the error node should have a max that is set to approx 5.
Inspect the msg using a debug set to full message object, I sure there is a count and you can use a switch node to stop the loop.

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It does have a count, but it never changes - always shows 1

{"error":{"message":"Activity update is running, please try again later.","source":{"id":"bfa8e1dc9d80025d","type":"alexa-remote-other","name":"Get Activities for Boost","count":1}},"_error":"Error: Activity update is running, please try again later.","_msgid":"bd8bab659b95cb1a"}

Note the copy there was on #8 (it takes roughly 8 attempts for the activity to clear on average) - I stuck my own count in to capture the actual count

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Strange the alexa node must not be passing the msg.error when the error is thrown again.

This may work as a workaround, its a bit convoluted, you may come up with something better.
It allows 5 errors then resets.

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