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I found the same issue.
On top of this, it also seems if the date/time is wrong, blynk doesn’t see the board online. As soon as you use DHCP and date/time is correct, blynk says the board is online.
For anyone interested, I discussed this with the Amazon development team. The current unlock API is indeed restricted to the US, Japan and Germany devices only at this time, although not documented. They are ‘hoping’ to update their documentation to reflect which APIs are country dependent.
Looks like I answered my own question after going through the documentation etc further.
I also read that ‘unlocking’ is now supported on some lock devices (maybe not all?) — however this doesn’t seem to work for me, as when editing a device configured in this way, only the name is changeable.
The API suggests that it’s now possible:
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device-apis/alexa-lockcontroller.html
I wonder if it’s a UK restriction? or perhaps using this method doesn’t use the latest API?
Have just ordered my door opener and started looking through all the documentation in preparation 🙂
I was just looking at the Alexa skills API and notice they do have a ContactSensor which allows a ‘is X open?’:
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/device-apis/list-of-interfaces.html
however it states that it’s en-US only, does that mean I can’t use it, being that I’m in the UK?
