Indigo Domotics

So yesterday my Mac mini was running a little slow, so I decided to restart it. After restating, Alexa is not working, it is just saying all my devices are not responding. I have no clue if it has anything to do with me restarting the computer though. It had been operating flawlessly for about a year now. I tried reloading the plugin, but that didn’t do anything

I’ve had this issue after a re-boot. Rename your Mac in preferences and restart the Mac. Rename it back afterwards if you want the original name (and restart again).


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Thank you for the reply, where in preferences do you rename it? I’m not seeing that


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I’m away from my Mac at the moment. Does this help?

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/rename-imac-68871.html


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Use the rename on network option


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I tried that and still nothing. I’m wondering if this has something to do with it.



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The plugin can't workout what your host name is, for some reason.

This can sometimes be because you have both ethernet and wi-fi enabled and/or maybe one is overriding the other.

Try overriding the Host IP Address - see the documentation here: Alexa-Hue Bridge Plugin Configuration

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The plugin can't workout what your host name is, for some reason.

This can sometimes be because you have both ethernet and wi-fi enabled and/or maybe one is overriding the other.

Try overriding the Host IP Address - see the documentation here: Alexa-Hue Bridge Plugin Configuration

Ok I tried this with no success, I used the ip that my Mac that is running indigo has, and reloaded the plugin afterwards, and it is still the same thing.


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Can you post the log for when it fails after you have overridden the address?

I think it may have worked, it just took awhile, some of my stuff isn’t working, but I think it’s because I was messing with settings, trying to get it to work.




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OK - Glad it's working again for you.

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OK - Glad it's working again for you.

I sure do appreciate it, I’ve gotten to lazy turning off my lights, it took to much effort using my phone now!


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So everything was working good last night, after I added the devices back that I had messed up.
When I got home today, none of the devices were working. I found the ground fault outlet tripped where one of my Alexa dots is. I got that all straightened out, but my question is, why with that one Alexa basically unplugged would none of them work? I will also add, this Dot was the first one I had when I set up the plugin, if that matters.


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So everything was working good last night, after I added the devices back that I had messed up.
When I got home today, none of the devices were working. I found the ground fault outlet tripped where one of my Alexa dots is. I got that all straightened out, but my question is, why with that one Alexa basically unplugged would none of them work? I will also add, this Dot was the first one I had when I set up the plugin, if that matters.

Yes, it does matter.

The Alexa Plugin needs an early generation Echo or Echo Dot to be present in your network for it to be able to work.

Whilst you can speak and send Indigo related commands to any Echos in your network, the response from Alexa to action the command has to be processed via an early generation Echo or Echo Dot. If not present (as in your case), it won't work.

So here we go again, out of nowhere, all my devices are not responding again, every thing looks good though, so I don’t get it.



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