After my recent server crash I decided to give Hass.io a tryon a Pi3. I got it up and running and migrated most of my old configuration over but for some reason Alexa is not seeing any devices from HASS (specifically the zwave). This worked pretty flawlessly on my Ubuntu server without anything too special being done but no such luck now.
I looked through the Hass.io pages and did not see anything particular to Alexa. Has anyone else had this issue or have any helpful thoughts on the matter?
Alexa should be fine finding devices on port 8300, but if you’re using a Google Home you’ll need to ensure emulated_hue is accessible on port 80. Let’s first see if description.xml is available.
They way my setup use to work I could not get anything on :8300 (Alexa) but I did on :80 (Google).
I removed the double emulated hue and left only the :8300 (Alexa) and I got the standard
Yes. It really is unfortunate timing since Hass.io already has its own funkynesss (the addons, and people trying to get used to it) and it could have done without the hit to emulated_hue.
It works out of the box for Alexa and Google Home I had to search for a old apk to get it sync and it was a one time thing. I keep the apk updated with playstore now and they work as expected and both control everything in my Hass configuration as expected.
@Corey_Johnson, did you ever get this fixed? I’m suffering the same problem as you - I can get a ‘read out’ (with pi or root in the URL) using whichever I put first in the emulated_hue config be it alexa and port 8300 or google home and port 80, but not both.
Actually I was just thinking whether you could solve it using the multiple instance version of emulated_hue and set one to 80 and the other to 8300 then expose your devices to both.
Have a search for a big thread about it and you’ll find the files you need in there, just dump them in your custom components folder and you’re away. I use it to split devices between my echo and harmony.
@randomusername… Yesterday I was finally able to configure Amazon Alexa with emulated hue on hass.io .
Please share your customize.yaml file and the configuration.yaml file so that I can look into.
The problem wasn’t getting them both to work, but getting them both to display information at /api/pi/ etc etc. Only one would show at a time, even though both worked. For me personally, it doesn’t matter now as I’m selling my Echo devices and going all Google. Thanks for the offer of help!
Hi, I can see in Alexa the Home Automation entities within Devices in Amazon Alexa and I am able to control the GPIO pins On/Off. So, from Alexa I am able to control Raspi GPIO pins. Great.
But I also want to the opposite meaning, I want to expose my Alexa enabled devices to Home Assistant in order to, for example, detect my presence home and turn On the Hall light which is not controlled by another Skill.