# Alexa ertoe message

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [May 15, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138 "2019-05-15T05:08:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![bierre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bierre/32/9522_2.png) [@bierre](https://community.homey.app/u/bierre)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138/1 "2019-05-15T05:08:08Z")

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Alexa used to work well with homey, but the last week I’m getting strange responses like “het spijt me maar ik begrijp niet…” (spoken by Alexa 😂) when I ask to turn off for example all living room lights (these are lights that are assigned to the living room in the Alexa app). When I use the switch all off button in the Alexa app, it all works. So it seems it only happens with voice control for a group of devices.

When switching on/off individual lights there’s no issue.

Anyone having the same experience? Don’t know how to pinpoint this issue.

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**Author:** ![Martin\_van\_der\_Aart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martin_van_der_aart/32/9658_2.png) [@Martin\_van\_der\_Aart](https://community.homey.app/u/Martin_van_der_Aart)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 7:41am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138/2 "2019-05-15T07:41:06Z")

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> [@bierre](#):
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> “het spijt me maar ik begrijp niet…” (spoken by Alexa 😂) when I ask to turn off for example all living room lights

Does this mean your Alexa is speaking Dutch now??

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**Author:** ![JeroenAlex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jeroenalex/32/10038_2.png) [@JeroenAlex](https://community.homey.app/u/JeroenAlex)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138/3 "2019-05-15T08:00:02Z")

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> [@Martin\_van\_der\_Aart](#):
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> Does this mean your Alexa is speaking Dutch now??

Mine up until today only speaks English and German… Maybe she missed some classes? 🙂

Anyway, I don’t have issues with her not understanding my command, however, execution of the command is a different story. See the “unstable lights” thread, about half of my commands are not executed by Homey… And if they are, flows regularly “skip” devices. ☹

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**Author:** ![bierre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bierre/32/9522_2.png) [@bierre](https://community.homey.app/u/bierre)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 8:07am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138/4 "2019-05-15T08:07:52Z")

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Haha, it’s a Dutch sentence from homey spoken by an English device, and it sounds…well funny 😄

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**Author:** ![Captaingreenfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Captaingreenfield](https://community.homey.app/u/Captaingreenfield)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138/5 "2019-05-15T11:27:40Z")

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I’ve had the same issue a few days back.  
A Dutch sentence spoken by Alexa.

It’s al working now and I can’t remember how I fixed it. (may have fixed itself as it did not take to much effort).

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**Author:** ![bierre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/bierre/32/9522_2.png) [@bierre](https://community.homey.app/u/bierre)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/alexa-ertoe-message/13138/6 "2019-05-15T17:42:39Z")

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@Captaingreenfield thans, i hope iT fixes itself