polycron wrote:When I go to the Alexa app I see that all of my devices that were published by the bridge are showing up as Offline. I can restart the plugin and do a rediscovery and then they will show up in the Alexa app fine....for a while. At some point it marks them as Offline again. If I restart the plugin the items still show as Offline however I can use the Echo and control items. As soon as I do, the items that I try to control from the echo switch from Offline to Online in the Alexa app.
There have been sporadic reports of this before, and I've seen it happen once here at my house (a long while back) - though I don't believe that restarting the plugin was required to get things working (but I can't remember clearly either). I'm about 90% sure that this is some kind of network issue. The Echo device periodically pings known devices (though I've never really been able to figure out what triggers that) and if it doesn't get a response it marks the devices as offline, but just trying to control them seemed to "fix" them. I was never really able to figure out how to reproduce it though.