Wyze and Alexa integration
At home, for home automation, I decided years ago to use the Amazon Alexa platform. It works reasonably well in most situations. I have Alexa devices spread throughout the house controlling various things, primary lights, bulbs, led strips, and switches. I have several brands of switches, one fhem being Wyze for outdoors, which works well via WiFi. One of the switches recently stopped working seemingly for no reason. After some troubleshooting I figured out Wyze decided its link to Alexa should expire. No prior warning, email, notification, nothing. It just quit working. It wasn't until I review the Alexa Skill that I noticed it had changed to say "This skill's link to Alexa has expired". Huh? Why did it do that, but more importantly, why did it not tell me? So strange the choices that manufacturers make. I can't think of a scenario where this expiration of a skill would be helpful or useful... Especially if you do not notify the owner. In any event, once I understood what was happening I was able to re-link by skill. But it was an inconvenience and took time to figure it out. Poor experience for consumers. Wyze, you can do better.
