My Home Assistant server (Raspberry Pi-3) crashed last week and as my bad luck had it, I had no saved snapshots. So, I am starting over.
Getting my lights and switches back on Alexa seemed to be working. I had been using Alexa-Local nodes in the past, but an Alexa Discover couldn’t find the nodes on the new system, so I decided to try Alexa-Home. Discover finds the Alexa-Home nodes nicely, except for the frequent:
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 34.240.81.189:8883
I’ll work on that later unless someone has any suggestions.
By my real issue is with the Call Service node.
I can reliably turn the light on or off using the Services tab:
So, I put the entity and service into a Call Service node:
After deploying, everything seemed to work, then my wife called me to dinner.
A couple of hours later, one of the Call Service nodes has this error:
"Call-service API error. "
and the other has this error:
“Call-Service attempted without connection to server.”
The only difference from the two is the service; switch.turn_on or switch.turn_off.
Here is what my flow looks like:
And here is the flow:
[
{
"id":"75ebe44.60af51c",
"type":"inject",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"on",
"topic":"",
"payload":"on",
"payloadType":"str",
"repeat":"",
"crontab":"",
"once":false,
"x":470,
"y":580,
"wires":[
[
"7c92a4da.c068fc"
]
]
},
{
"id":"fc188614.f1eae8",
"type":"inject",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"Off",
"topic":"",
"payload":"off",
"payloadType":"str",
"repeat":"",
"crontab":"",
"once":false,
"x":470,
"y":620,
"wires":[
[
"56defcf1.8ffa24"
]
]
},
{
"id":"52ffe154.20495",
"type":"alexa-home",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"conf":"49ef520c.ed4c0c",
"device":"93601",
"acknoledge":true,
"name":"Floodlight",
"topic":"",
"x":140,
"y":520,
"wires":[
[
"2efea101.04239e"
]
]
},
{
"id":"2efea101.04239e",
"type":"switch",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"Turn light on or off",
"property":"command",
"propertyType":"msg",
"rules":[
{
"t":"eq",
"v":"TurnOnRequest",
"vt":"str"
},
{
"t":"eq",
"v":"TurnOffRequest",
"vt":"str"
}
],
"checkall":"true",
"outputs":2,
"x":330,
"y":520,
"wires":[
[
"9413c9d0.915b48"
],
[
"c3528af3.bc2c58"
]
]
},
{
"id":"9413c9d0.915b48",
"type":"change",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"Set payload to on",
"rules":[
{
"t":"set",
"p":"payload",
"pt":"msg",
"to":"on",
"tot":"str"
}
],
"action":"",
"property":"",
"from":"",
"to":"",
"reg":false,
"x":550,
"y":500,
"wires":[
[
"7c92a4da.c068fc"
]
]
},
{
"id":"c3528af3.bc2c58",
"type":"change",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"Set payload to off",
"rules":[
{
"t":"set",
"p":"payload",
"pt":"msg",
"to":"off",
"tot":"str"
}
],
"action":"",
"property":"",
"from":"",
"to":"",
"reg":false,
"x":550,
"y":540,
"wires":[
[
"56defcf1.8ffa24"
]
]
},
{
"id":"94d052df.3be92",
"type":"comment",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"========== Floodlight ==========",
"info":"",
"x":230,
"y":460,
"wires":[
]
},
{
"id":"7c92a4da.c068fc",
"type":"api-call-service",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"Floodlight On",
"server":"cc0d1734.6963a8",
"version":1,
"debugenabled":true,
"service_domain":"switch",
"service":"turn_on",
"entityId":"switch.aeon_labs_zw139_nano_switch_switch",
"data":"",
"dataType":"json",
"mergecontext":"",
"output_location":"",
"output_location_type":"none",
"mustacheAltTags":false,
"x":790,
"y":540,
"wires":[
[
]
]
},
{
"id":"56defcf1.8ffa24",
"type":"api-call-service",
"z":"ae89a19a.1fd39",
"name":"Floodlight Off",
"server":"cc0d1734.6963a8",
"version":1,
"debugenabled":true,
"service_domain":"switch",
"service":"turn_off",
"entityId":"switch.aeon_labs_zw139_nano_switch_switch",
"data":"",
"dataType":"json",
"mergecontext":"",
"output_location":"",
"output_location_type":"none",
"mustacheAltTags":false,
"x":790,
"y":600,
"wires":[
[
]
]
},
{
"id":"49ef520c.ed4c0c",
"type":"alexa-home-conf",
"z":"",
"username":"SteveMann"
},
{
"id":"cc0d1734.6963a8",
"type":"server",
"z":"",
"name":"Home Assistant- Raspberry",
"legacy":true,
"hassio":true,
"rejectUnauthorizedCerts":true,
"ha_boolean":"y|yes|true|on|home|open",
"connectionDelay":true,
"cacheJson":true
}
]
Assistance would be appreciated…
