Alexa commands not working

Yea, but normally they will look at the log to see if it is actually hitting the Vacuum and something is causing it not to respond.

I have questioned this and will let you know what I hear

@caveboychris @finaldestiny731 , I just did some testing on the Vacuum again and it started working with my commands. I first asked the following:

  • Alexa, ask wyze vacuum what Grover is doing? Note: Grover is the name of our Vacuum. It informed me that Grover was Charging.

I then said:

  • Alexa, Ask Wyze Vacuum to Vacuum. Alexa responded letting me know cleaning has commenced and I heard my Vacuum Running. Not needing to clean, I then said “Alexa, ask Wyze Vacuum to stop vacuuming”, it stopped vacuuming and returned to the docking station.

You may want to see if yours is working now

It’s specifically the room cleaning function that isn’t working. I also have trouble asking it to pause but the command above that I quoted a couple posts ago and the one @finaldestiny731 referenced is what isn’t working. Just tried it so no change.

I think it has to do with the commands. I just said this:

Alexa, Ask Wyze Vacuum to clean my Living Room.

It responded with Area Cleaning and went to clean my living room.

I then cancelled it without issue.

So I can clean specific rooms or the house.

I then said:

Alexa, Ask Wyze Vacuum to Pause Grover. The vacuum Paused Cleaning.

So Pause is also working for me

Here are a summary of commands I used which worked for me:

  • Alexa, ask wyze vacuum what Grover is doing
  • Alexa, Ask Wyze Vacuum to Vacuum.
  • Alexa, ask Wyze Vacuum to stop vacuuming
  • Alexa, Ask Wyze Vacuum to clean my Living Room
  • Alexa, Ask Wyze Vacuum to Pause Grover

Nope. I say it verbatim as listed in the command list and as you just stated. Not working. Says cannot find a device or group called that. For some other commands it just says I don’t know that, or just times out.

Interesting. Have you tried relinking Alexa to Wyze?

I just tried saying what I normally say: “Alexa, ask Wyze Vacuum to clean the Master Bedroom”, and it responded: “I don’t know how to set ‘Home Vacuum’ (my vacuum name) to that setting”.

But then I tried a couple of other room names (Laundry, Dining Room) and it seem the ones that don’t have “Master” in the room name actually works!

So there is something about having “Master” in the room name is causing it to fail since end of 2023 (since it worked flawlessly before that).

Seems like I have to change my master bedroom name and retest.

Ok, now Laundry and Dining room no longer works. (I haven’t changed any room names yet)…
Gives me the same “I don’t know how to set ‘Home Vacuum’ (my vacuum name) to that setting”.

I did get “Alexa, ask Wyze Vacuum to clean the Master Closet” to work once a few mins ago, but now no longer works.

Yes, I tried relinking. But just for kicks, I did again. This time I deleted the device first and then unlinked the account. I’ve noticed issues in the past where it doesn’t clear out in the Alexa account. Did not work. I get the same error as before.

I’m it alone either besides @finaldestiny731 there are lots on the Alexa app reviews that are having issues.

Ok waiting to hear and will let you know

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@caveboychris
I am sorry you are having issues, have you contacted the Support Team about this and if so can I get your ticket number? If you have not contacted them I would recommend contacting the Support Team.

https://support.wyze.com/hc/en-us

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Did something change in the app recently? After my robot finishes cleaning a room, the notification now says: “Clean completed. Vacuum cleand {1} square feet and it took {0} minutes.” It no longer states the actual square feet and how many minutes.

I’m also wondering whether this could be the root cause of Alexa Wyze commands not recognizing room names. Seems like the programming variables (room name, square ft, minutes) may not associated correctly!

I have not. Mostly because of the odd nature of it, and I haven’t been really pleased with my previous recent interactions, just being a waste of time. When I found this thread with basically the identical issue I was engaged. I was mostly hoping for the visibility. I’ll try to reach out to them.

[Wyze Ticket 3734766] We’re working on your request: Wyze robot vacuum Alexa app issue

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Not surprising, after recommending all the typical things again, firmware, unplug and plug in, relinking …etc despite mentioning some of that in my email, they requested a log , stating it will go to engineering to be considered in future updates yada yada … and are closing the ticket.

I asked about how the apps on Alexa were created, is it Wyze writing it or Amazon. no info. I asked for clarification on the two different firmwares for original and Wal Mart vacuums (I purchased ours through wal mart). I asked about the fact there seems to be two “current” firmwares. There is one dated newer but the vacuum says it’s up to date. Neither of which are recent. No answer. I asked if I needed to unplug all 7 Echos we have, no answer. They said I should reach out to Amazon, big could not clarify how I can do that as it’s not clear in Alexa, I’ve tried and the best I can find to do is post a review of the wyze app.

Can you give me the log number for the log you sent in? You can find it here:

Wyze app → Account tab → Wyze Support → Log History

I will make sure it gets to the correct person to start looking into it.

1355706

In addition I cannot initiate any functions by voice now. I can go into the Alexa app and start a full clean, but that is all.

I used to be able to say “Alexa Wyze vacuum” and it would give me a list of commands/intro. When I do that now, Alexa just shuts off.

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@WyzeJasonJ @finaldestiny731
I’ve stumbled on a fix, so far.

Since I had nothing to do today I deleted ALL wyze devices in Alexa, and then disabled the Wyze skill from Alexa. I also, removed all my echo devices from Alexa. I cleared data from my Alexa app.

Then I rebuilt.

Initial tests show it now recognizes the commands. A pain, but I guess it needed a hard reset. Removing just the vacuum from the app was no sufficient, I had to delete all the Wyze devices.

Still very hit or miss. Sometimes it can resolve the room names sometimes it can’t find the “group or device…” somtimg isn’t getting processed right by the skill to Alexa.

3/31/24
Completely broken again. I’m not removing all of my echo devices and re setting them up this time…
But I did try deleting all of the Wyze devices and disabling and re-enabling the skill and it still gives the same error as before.

My Alexa commands stopped working a few weeks ago as well. I tried updating the commands per mentioned Wyze commands, still don’t work. Alexa just responds with a unsuccesful ding and that’s it. Any updates on resolution?

Wyze commands not working with my Alexa device. Something to the effect that “I don’t know how to set wyze vac to that setting” I have reset everything and everything is up to date. Reading this forum there appears to be no workable solution to this issue or desire to solve the problem. This is very disappointing for any future dealings with Wyze.