Hi,
i have three networks in my installation:
- WAN, 192.168.178.x, connected to my Fritzbox Router on Lan1 of opnsense
- LAN, 192.168.10.x
- IOT, 10.10.10.x, both connected on Lan2 of opnsense
My openHAB3 server is in the LAN network, my Alexa devices are in the IOT network.
Now I want some items from my openHAB3 server to be discovered by Alexa (the items all have the correct metadata) but Alexa doesn't find anything.
Any ideas how to go about this problem? I tried to look in the live logs but i could not find blocked traffic between the networks.
Thanks for advice
Haven't used Openhab so take this with a grain of salt:
Digging into your scenario via this link here:
https://www.openhab.org/docs/ecosystem/alexa/#requirements
It doesn't even look like they do local discovery. It looks like your OpenHab environment would talk directly with the Alexa service and enumerate devices in the cloud.
If true, this could be 1 reason you're not seeing blocks. The other ofcourse being you don't have logging turned on for the rule that is potentially blocking anything internally ;)
You are right, the connection happens over the cloud.
My openHAB server is connected to their cloud interface (myopenhab.org) and this is working fine. Also, I have to enable to Skill in the Alexa App, which correctly connects to my account on myopenhab.org.