Having a smart lock and some routines that are able to open the door, for security reason I made sure the scripts would follow the open command only after ascertaining that somehow I am home, otherwise abort the operation.
To further narrow down the risk of anyone shouting “Alexa, do this or that” from outside, being the smart ass I am, I bought two smart plugs to proxy power to my echo devices so they get killed when i got out and revived when i come back, genius.
But, I noticed that for a short period of time when back the routines based on emulated hue exposed entities would not work,
after some testing I realized that if no echo device is powered on, all the emulated hue entities result as unresponsive to my alexa phone app, which kind of make sense beucase it needs some device connected in my local network to be able to talk to home assistant…
which I acutally I should have, that is my Sonos Ark that is an alexa enabled device, to which i leave powered on but with microphone disabled (for said security reason)
I tried several times to run the discovery command on it but still my Emulated Hue entities will not appear available unless at least one Amazon Echo Dot is powered on…
so is there anything I am missing? is this a limitation of alexa enabled devices in not being able to use them as proxies to HA/local entities?
