Who killed Alexa?! - "Authentication failed: "no body""

[RonMa]

Hi guys,

since few days my Alexa event node temporarily stopped working stating the following error message:

"Authentication failed: "no body""

Usually it helped to either restart all flows or, as a last resort, restart the whole Node-Red integration (I´m using Home Assistant). But since today even this has no effect anymore. I´m using the

node-red-contrib-alexa-cakebaked

palette but also tried different other ones but it´s the same situation. Anyone know who killed Alexa and how to revive her?

[dynamicdave]

I've got exactly the same issue/problem - exactly the same error message with my daily weather forecast.

Everything has been working fine for the last 3 or 4 weeks.
I've tried various things to try to resolve it - all have failed.
I've even installed the nodes on a Raspberry Pi that didn't have any of these nodes - still dosen't work

[cymplecy]

I'm using the original node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 and its working "fine" - well, as well as it always does

[dynamicdave]

Thanks Simon - I'll try that out this evening.
Just out of interest - which version are you using??

[cymplecy]

3.10.4
Saw a lot of people having problems earlier in the year switching to cakebaked etc

I wasn't have any more than the usual problem of having to init it every time a prime number occurs in UNIX timestamps so I just stayed with original

[RonMa]

Tried it with both of the old pallets "node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2" and "node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2-v2". Unfortunately absolutely no change in the situation

[Kazzy]

Phew i thought i broke mine this week.. so glad it wasnt just me getting this.. im using the Cakebaked version..

[dynamicdave]

Well this is really weird !!!
My daily weather forecast delivered via Alexa worked this morning.
The Node-RED flow hasn't been working all week, then burst into 'life' this morning.
I've just looked at the flow and it had a green success light against the Alexa node, yippppeee...
Unfortunateley, after I deployed the flow I'm getting the 'Authentication failed' message!!
Oh well that success was short-lived.

[dynamicdave]

I've just removed my old version of 'alexa' and tried 'node-red-contrib-alexa-remote-fork' - that gives the same problem and error message.

I've tried all sorts of combinations of 'Fresh Authentication', 'Refresh Cookie' before doing 'Initialise'.
I did notice the (optional) User Agent box is blank. What have other people put in there?

[Varguit]

Solution : [#22 (comment)](

Was working great and now won't authorise on 3456 · Issue #22 · cakebake/node-red-contrib-alexa-remote-cakebaked · GitHub

)

[dynamicdave]

BRILLIANT - thanks for sharing this solution.
I just followed the instructions in your link and it worked like a dream for me.

Note:
I'm using 'node-red-contrib-alexa-remote-fork' and the instructions worked fine for that node.

[RonMa]

Thanks much @Varguit - Looks like they already fixed it themselves. After re-installing the cakebaked version, the missing entry to alexa-remote.js was already made and the node initialized smoothly again

[Kazzy]

Yah did the solution and that worked for me too using Cakebaked. Many thanks.