[UPDATE:] Fixed! I was able to get it working. I noticed that the Google equivalent of the Alexa skill was working, just not the Alexa... so I assumed the Ambient Weather account itself was fine... so something with Alexa. Every time I've tried re-linking my Ambient Weather to Alexa (and it fails to link), it was when I was attempting at various computers/various web browsers. And this would not work (still giving the error as the attached screenshot indicates.) But... I decided to try linking the skill using my cell phone's Alexa app. And believe it or not... It worked! I'm back in business, and my alexa is providing me the proper weather from my PWS now. Must be a problem with Amazon's Alexa website system somehow. Won't work with their website, but works with their app
[ORIGINAL PROBLEM:] As a long-time (for years) user of the Alexa skill for Ambient Weather, using it to get the latest stats from my Ambient Weather WS-1001-WIFI Observer system, suddenly, last evening (8/4/22), when I asked my alexa, "alexa, ask ambient weather for the temperature" (or weather, etc.), instead of giving me a full weather report for my specific station as it has done for years, alexa now indicated that "the Ambient Weather Skill cannot be reached" (or "Ambient Weather could not be reached.") I kept trying, and the same thing kept happening. So, I checked to make sure my weather station was properly reporting to ambientweather.net, and it was, with no issues. (Also, my PWS is reporting to weatherunderground without issues.) So, I decided it must be a problem with the actual alexa skill. In an attempt to test, I unlinked my Ambient Weather weather station from the alexa skill. I then tried re-linking my weather station to the ambient weather alexa skill. But now, that fails, as now, each time I try re-linking the ambient weather skill (which requires me to log into ambientweather.net, which I do), the amazon alexa skill's web page reports back: "We were unable to link Ambient Weather at this time. Please try again later." I've attached a screenshot showing this. It's been doing that since last night. It's still doing that today each time I try re-linking the alexa skill to my ambient weather account. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
I tried from different browsers, different computers, etc. And, my account on the ambient weather website does show the API key is still in my profile.
And because the ambient weather skill is no longer linked to my ambient weather account (because it won't allow me to re-link now), if I now ask alexa, "alexa, ask ambient weather for the weather" (or "temperature" or whatever), it no longer replies with "Ambient Weather cannot be reached", but instead, it just gives a generic weather report for the general area. So something is broken somewhere. As I mentioned, my weatherstation is happily reporting data to ambientweather.net (as I can see my updated weather on the ambient weather website), so the problem has to be somewhere between Amazon (the ambient weather skill) and ambient weather's site, in terms of alexa's skill being able to see my ambient weather account.
Again, this all came on last night (alexa no longer seeing being able to see my Ambient Weather station and not being able to re-link my ambient weather account to the alexa ambient weather skill.) And note, others of my alexa skills are working just fine, just not the Ambient Weather skill. Anyone else with this problem? Any idea what's going on? Any kind of work-around? I love having this skill available, as I use it quote a bit. So, I'm hoping it's just a temporary outage. Thanks!
