Ikea & Alexa: "We're making space for matter" / "Unable to link the skill at this time"
Is there some kind of system issue right now?
Yesterday all of our IKEA smart home devices stopped working with Alexa. In the IKEA Smart home app, under integrations, Alexa still shows as connected but there's a notification that says:
>We're making space for Matter
This integration needs to be renewed with Matter Bridge for seamless control of IKEA products in Apple HomeKit.
Follow the guide to renew the integration.
Setting aside the unclear relevance of Apple HomeKit to Alexa integration and no clear link to a "guide", I took the matter code and used it in the Alexa app to no avail. But Alexa now tells me that "the skill linked with [IKEA device] is not enabled"... yet when I try to re-enable the IKEA Home Smart skill, I can make it through the process of requesting a PIN by email only for it to fail with the error "Unable to link the skill at this time. Please try agian later".
Also, it seems impossible to "disconnect" from Alexa... when I click the disconnect button in the IKEA app it takes me to Alexa, where the skill is already disabled. Yet it still shows the integration as connected in the IKEA app. Normally I would disconnect and reconnect to try to solve this type of problem. It seems I'm stuck in limbo.