This happens because the wemo cloud compares the wan ip address of the request with the wan ip address of the wemo device. To know how click here.
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Wemo not working with google home. Reset or restore your wemo device to factory default settings. Sure wemo is home automation made easy putting control of your household lights and small appliances at your fingertips. But what if your fingertips are busy. Link your wemo devices to a google assistant enabled device and ask google to control your lights and appliances. Close all apps that are running in the background then re open the app. Now my wemo wont even connect to google home just throws errors.
What if you need home automation thats even easier. Everything appears fine in both the google home and wemo apps. Open the google home app and go to settings personal info home work. Setup is not working properly. To control your devices say okay google. According to their community forum and when i search twitter for at wemo lots of people have had this problem.
Uninstall and reinstall the wemo app then repeat the setup process. Google home still works for the philips hue lights. Like many people i ran into problems with my wemo switch so i tried disconnecting and reconnecting it to my home app. Wemo screwed up no longer working with google home. And alexa can still control all of the wemo switches. In this particular case google vpn is blocking and preventing linking.
Disable the vpn service to enable linking to google home. Using google home to control my wemo switches just recently within the last few hours stopped working though the google home responds as though it is performing the action. Open the google home app and go to settings routines good morning and make sure tell me about the weather is checked. Turn onoff my device name you can also assign wemo devices to a room in the google homegoogle assistant app to control together. For setup instructions click here.