Echo alarm clock

[andyhawks]

I just discovered this thread. I’ve got a working Echo Speaks alarm with GCal events script if anyone wants it. Notes:

• Change Contact Sensor 20 and the GCal event name in timeAlarm/dateAlarm variables to be the same, and match your GCal device name
• Switch 48 is a virtual switch (‘Sleep In Toggle’) to override setting the alarm automatically
• Music Player 4 is your Echo
• @HolidayTodayIsFederal comes from @JimmyS 's holiday scripts at U.S. Holiday detection pistons

[andyhawks]

I’ve been running the above Piston for the past week. Until today it worked as expected. Today, it ran as usual - including the log entry saying that it set the alarm. Except it didn’t actually set the alarm on the Echo. Although it sent the command to set the alarm, either the Echo didn’t receive it - or at least it did not set it. Since it is unacceptable for an alarm to not be set, and I am unaware of any method to check and retry on an Echo device as needed when it fails (like I have for ST controllable devices), I have discontinued use if this Piston.

My script posted above is now failing as well. There is an issue open here: https://github.com/tonesto7/echo-speaks/issues/221 . It seems it stopped working with this commit I believe, https://github.com/tonesto7/echo-speaks/commit/720942c15277cbbc0e57039820a4815c4b60dd0e, or maybe in this PR, https://github.com/tonesto7/echo-speaks/pull/184/commits/c752c7fbfd2037b0a21886a6f2ccd4ea810a8eb1 . Since I’m not a Groovy or Alexa developer I’m not sure how to debug. Maybe some @webCoRE_Minions can help @tonesto7 debug?

ST log errors look like:

28ba91a9-7824-45f3-b2f5-3c38cccc4d33 6:05:32 PM: error Echo (v3.4.0.0) | CreateAlarm Response Exception | Status: (500) | Msg: Internal Server Error
28ba91a9-7824-45f3-b2f5-3c38cccc4d33 6:05:32 PM: debug params: [type:Alarm, status:ON, alarmTime:1580259992500, createdDate:1580259932500, originalTime:05:45.00.000, originalDate:2020-01-29, timeZoneId:null, reminderIndex:null, sound:null, deviceSerialNumber:G0911B0592560922, deviceType:A4ZP7ZC4PI6TO, recurrenceEligibility:false, alarmLabel:2020-01-29, reminderLabel:null, reminderSubLabel:Echo Speaks, timerLabel:null, skillInfo:null, isSaveInFlight:true, triggerTime:0, id:createAlarm, isRecurring:false, remainingDuration:0, rRuleData:null, recurringPattern:null]
28ba91a9-7824-45f3-b2f5-3c38cccc4d33 6:05:32 PM: debug rule: [data:null, pattern:null]
28ba91a9-7824-45f3-b2f5-3c38cccc4d33 6:05:32 PM: debug transormRecurString(type: null, opt: null, time: 05:45,date: 2020-01-29)
28ba91a9-7824-45f3-b2f5-3c38cccc4d33 6:05:32 PM: trace createdNotification params: [cmdType:CreateAlarm, label:2020-01-29, date:2020-01-29, time:05:45, type:Alarm]

[orangebucket]

My script posted above is now failing as well. There is an issue open here: https://github.com/tonesto7/echo-speaks/issues/221 .

The Tomcat related error shown in those logs looks like the same one that was taking out webCoRE (and a few other things) two or three weeks ago.