Emulated Hue / Alexa Setup Changed

Both my home assistant emulated hue and my tasmota devices that had WeMo emulation stopped working last week with alexa. Found a solution buried in a github comment.

This addon works great: GitHub - t0bst4r/home-assistant-matter-hub: Publish your Home-Assistant Instance using Matter.

You install this, go into alexa app and configure a matter hub. Then add a “label” for each device like “switch.fireplace” and search for matter devices in alexa app. Works way quicker than emulated hue ever did.

I’m not developer, but this deserves a link on the almost defunct emulated hue integration. I read old devices should keep working with emulated hue, but new ones cannot be added due to now requiring SSL. Not sure why all of mine died last week.

Longstanding thread here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/matter-hub-simple-setup-to-link-google-home-alexa-and-siri-to-home-assistant/792902.

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