How to send a notification

[sdetweil]

@alyx I added your config to my MM and added debugging… and it works as expected

samplemodule reports Selfie_shoot was received

SampleModule received a module notification: SELFIE_SHOOT from sender: MMM-AlexaControl

and because u have is as onOff:false
u get a notification every time (on or off)

I did this using the alexa app…

[Alyx]

@sdetweil oh… where do you think I went wrong so?

[sdetweil]

@alyx i don’t know… i didn’t change anything in your config…

if you use the alexa app to turn the plug on or off, do you see the notifications?

[Alyx]

@sdetweil ok I re added the selfie device on the alexa app and it found it fine but its now coming up as unresponsive

[sdetweil]

@alyx so, discovery records the IP address of the ‘device’ and the port.

so, if your pi changes ip address during boot, then it won’t work again …

all my pi type devices have fixed addresses to avoid this problem…

[Alyx]

@sdetweil ah ok I’ll set a static! TBH I did have that concern but i was wrong to assume it was dynamic with the IP’s

I’ll come back if this works or not , I have a call rn

[sdetweil]

@alyx yeh the Alexa design is devices don’t move around, and one would only do discovery occasionally

then u have to delete the devices and rediscover

[Alyx]

@sdetweil ok so after fighting with my interfaces file for a few days I have a static IP

Only issue is that I can discover devices on the Alexa app but they arent usable and just come up an unresponsive…

It seems the static IP has messed with that feature ? Any advise on this please?

[sdetweil]

@alyx no after u get a static IP, and your mm config.js has

address:"0.0.0.0",
ipWhitelist:[],

to allow incoming connections from outside the pi machine

it should work

[Alyx]

@sdetweil I did that but still isnt working