Alexa Thermostats not found since 4.0

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micky1500
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Alexa Thermostats not found since 4.0

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Since Z-Way 4.0 My Thermostats have disappeared.
Has the Alexa App been incorporated into the main service ?

Everything I change in the Alexa App has no affect.

I have been looking at the Alexa App
It includes Thermostat's when the scan is done. But Mine are not found. (It worked before)

\\PI-4\PiShare\opt\z-way-server\automation\modules\Alexa\index.js Line 1220
case "thermostat":
appliance.actions.push("setTargetTemperature", "incrementTargetTemperature", "decrementTargetTemperature", "getTargetTemperature",
"getTemperatureReading");
appliance.applianceTypes.push("THERMOSTAT");
console.log("Alexa Micky Room=" + vDev.get("location") + " Thermostat " + vDev.get("metrics:title"));
break;

Thanks in advance :)
Raspi 4 - (Buster - 32 Bit) Zwave Version 4.1.1, Raz 7 Pro, Serial API Version: 07.38
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PoltoS
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Re: Alexa Thermostats not found since 4.0

Post by PoltoS »

Hello!

The old Alexa app was provided by third-party developers. It is not available since Jan 2022. Instead, we have launched our own Alexa App (search for Z-Wave.Me). Unfortunately, the only type not yet supported by it is the thermostat ;( We will improve it once we rework the thermostat widget style in Z-Way.
micky1500
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Re: Alexa Thermostats not found since 4.0

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Thankyou.
I'll stop trying to fix it myself.
That explains why my console.log doesn't add anything to the log files.

A questions arises.
If The Alexa app is being bypassed !
Where are the Alexa routines being actioned ?
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PoltoS
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Re: Alexa Thermostats not found since 4.0

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The new Alexa integration is working on our broker service that works to translate all Alexa requests to Z-Way API requests. Before the same (third-party) broker was working, but it was just routing to the correct Z-Way keeping the decoding of the Alexa protocol on the Z-Way side. Now it is on the broker side.
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