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    Strange unintended commands from Alexa

    Since a few days I have my Sky satellite box randomly pressing buttons for me. Looking at the logs, I can see that events were triggered. I trigger these events by activating a virtual switch. I have not manually turned that switch on, and Alexa has been quiet and not turned to listening. Now what happens too since a few days, I have macros (which again are triggered by switching a virtual switch) which have worked fine for weeks, and I have not touched them. But all of a sudden I can see when saying 'turn on BBC1' which normally turned the TV and and my SKY box to BBC1, it turns on the TV and switches it to the right input but then receives garbage as on teh program guide I can see all sorts of letters and commas etc appear. Same as sometimes randomly happens over the last few days. I think I know ehy the random symbols and letters appear. If you look at my log, within the same second Alexa has not only triggered the BBC1 command, but also Channel4, ITV and BBC2. I guess that has overloaded the plugin which results in garbage being sent.
    This is a part of the log:

    Nov-15 19:24:11 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 2
    Nov-15 19:24:11 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: CURSOR LEFT
    Nov-15 19:24:11 drhsIpPlugIn Starting Tcp client for iTach IP2IR at address 192.168.0.71:4998
    Nov-15 19:24:11 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 0
    Nov-15 19:24:11 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 1
    Nov-15 19:24:10 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 2
    Nov-15 19:24:10 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 8
    Nov-15 19:24:10 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: CURSOR ENTER
    Nov-15 19:24:10 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 1
    Nov-15 19:24:10 drhsIpPlugIn ERROR - SendTcp: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. (iTach IP2IR, persistence 0)
    Nov-15 19:24:09 drhsIpPlugIn ERROR - SendTcp: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. (iTach IP2IR, persistence 0)
    Nov-15 19:24:09 drhsIpPlugIn ERROR - SendTcp: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. (iTach IP2IR, persistence 0)
    Nov-15 19:24:09 drhsIpPlugIn ERROR - SendTcp: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. (iTach IP2IR, persistence 0)
    Nov-15 19:24:09 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 7
    Nov-15 19:24:09 drhsIpPlugIn Starting Tcp client for iTach IP2IR at address 192.168.0.71:4998
    Nov-15 19:24:09 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: GUIDE
    Nov-15 19:24:09 drhsIpPlugIn Starting Tcp client for iTach IP2IR at address 192.168.0.71:4998
    Nov-15 19:24:09 drhsIpPlugIn ERROR - SendTcp: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. (iTach IP2IR, persistence 0)
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Global Cache IR sent for Sky HD IR: DIGIT 1
    Nov-15 19:24:08 drhsIpPlugIn Starting Tcp client for iTach IP2IR at address 192.168.0.71:4998
    Nov-15 19:24:08 drhsIpPlugIn Starting Tcp client for iTach IP2IR at address 192.168.0.71:4998
    Nov-15 19:24:08 drhsIpPlugIn Starting Tcp client for iTach IP2IR at address 192.168.0.71:4998
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Device Control Device: Voice control Alexa ITV to Off (0)
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Event Event Trigger "Alexa ITV and TV off - wait until TV on"
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Device Control Device: Voice control Alexa BBC 1 to Off (0)
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Event Event Trigger "Alexa BBC1 and TV off - wait until TV on"
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Event Event Trigger "Alexa TV On - wait until TV on"
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Device Control Device: Voice control Alexa BBC 2 to Off (0)
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Event Event Trigger "Alexa BBC2 and TV off - wait until TV on"
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Device Control Device: Voice control Alexa Channel Four to Off (0)
    Nov-15 19:24:08 Event Event Trigger "Alexa Channel 4 and TV off - wait until TV on"
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