DaveStLou

Michel, I had a similar issue which I posted to a separate thread. My question is where was the notice of the maintenance release posted? Even if a release is not expected to cause problems, if there is a notice we can find out and give feedback if there are issues.

While writing the original post mine came back online. Seems like it's working now.

Anyone else receive unusual errors on the portal this morning? This morning my Amazon Echo complained "that command doesn't work" on my devices. Logging into the ISY Portal I found my ISY is online and through the admin console UDI portal shows online. When I tried to review settings under Amazon Echo after a long pause I got "Devices are not available HTTP error 500" and "Scenes not available". When I went to ISY Web Access on the portal after a long pause I get "error, Loading: /config/". I tried rebooting my ISY994i but no change. Then about 8:20am CT all returned to normal. I don't see any messages about maintenance on the portal.

aceball, You're right. It is a little less awkward. Hilariously, the first time I tried it though, Alexa added "Garage Door" to my shopping list.

Interesting. I added our GDO yesterday and used open/close. I just read your post and tried. Open/close works!!! edit: Maybe 'door' is a problem. I didn't use that word. I was hopeful when I saw your post, stusviews, so I changed the "Spoken" word in ISY portal, removed all discovered devices in Alexa app and re-discovered devices. Unfortunately Alexa's response is the same when I saw "Open garage": "I'm not quite sure how to help you with that." I still seem to be running into what Michel referred to above. My question remains: Why is "open" more insecure than "on"?

Can someone explain to me or point to the rationale for Amazon restricting the use of the word "open"? When the ISY Optimized for Smart Home updated to V2 I lost the capability to simply say "open garage door". Now I have to say "turn on garage door". Why is it safer to turn on a garage door than to open a garage door?