I have an eisy with over 120 Insteon devices, mostly switches.  Also have Amazon Echo or Sonos speakers with Echo built in throughout house, integrated with ISY portal.  

most of the time, voice commands (Alexa, turn Outside Lights on") work instantly, with alexa replying "ok".  

Intermittently, Alexa responds "ok" but nothing happens.  Within 5 minutes or so, the light does turn on or off.  

This is across many devices, not just one.

It 'feels like' something is asleep and takes time to wake up, then processes a queue.  

How do I troubleshoot?  many times it's not convenient to whip out phone or computer to see eisy - we use switch and move on (mostly with my wife cursing Alexa) 

Help appreciated.  Thanks

eisy version 5.8.4

example this morning - 

7:04 "Alexa, turn outside lights on"  Alexa: "OK". no lights.

by 7.07, the lights turned on.  

I wish I had left Admin console and event viewer up on a computer so I could see traffic.  

Any other thoughts on how to figure out? 

Thanks!

@breischaft I've tried Alexa commands a few times during the day today and haven't had any delays. Certainly not minutes like you're experiencing. 

I would suggest you open a support ticket with UD to see if they can help diagnose if this is a portal issue on their side or a system issue within your setup.

https://www.universal-devices.com/my-tickets

Please be sure to post any resolution they give you so that we all can learn from this and might help others should they have similar issues. 

How many skills do you have loaded into your Alexa ap?

My sister=in-law used to love to add every funny skill she could think of into my system and that seemed to slow down my HA system response while the Alexa servers would sort out where the commands needed to go.

However, never that many minutes. I am talking 10-20 seconds, at times.

With my blinds and other two server daisy-chained  skills  I ave experienced many "I cannot contact your xxx server". or "your server xxx seems to be offline" responses and then the device operates anyway, about 20-30 seconds later. Must be some sort of handshake back failure on those ones.

thanks for the reply. 

Alexa has 4 skills: 

-local radio stations

-Sonos (which are the main devices used for Alexa/these voice commands)

-ISY V3

-SiriusXM