nice lights, wont connect

I've had these lights for a week. Hung them in the bedroom, even got enough to go 3/4 of the way around the room. The strips connect easily. (Side note: Id one seems to not work, flip the connection over and make sure the same colored wired are on the same side). 

My gripe with this is, no matter how many times I've tried to connect them to the app so they work with Alexa, all it does is the fast blink. Even doing the power cycle to get it to recognize it doesn't work.

So for now, I have the remote, but I really wish they would work with the app.