Emulated Hue and Alexa

[abhaypawar]

Hi,

Alexa is not able to discover the HA devises. It was working fine till a few days ago.
Now the Alexa app isn’t able to discover the devices.

I am using Emulated Hue Bridge.

Appreciate the help.

Abhay

[Jer78 (Jeremy Percival)]

There’s lots of issues with emulated hue if you search the forums. I gave up and went with node-red. It can also work locally and way better imo as you can pass values. I have an automation that sets my non smart fan to a certain speed by saying “Alexa set the fan to 4”. Emulated_hue had me pulling my hair out for about a month. But now I’m perfectly happy I left it.

[abhaypawar]

Thanks, Installing Node-Red today, Need to figure things out there as I am new to this.

Abhay

[Jer78 (Jeremy Percival)]

Once you get it installed, there are some topics around the forum that should give you some ideas how to use it. Here’s some to get you started with Alexa

Node Red Alexa Best Practices

@nordlead2005 Good point! I should definitely change it to be more efficient. Thanks @outrun I’m using the local Alexa node. Some people were having issues with it, but I think the same principles would work for the cloud based one.

Alexa and Node-Red

So I took the plunge and installed Node-Red and the local Alexa skill. It was very easy to set up and works pretty good. One question I have for the more experienced users out there is, how would I program a flow that turns a switch/input_boolean on or off based on what I say to Alexa? So right now, I just have it toggle but if it’s already on and I ask Alexa “turn on the Fan” if the state is on, it shouldn’t toggle and turn off. Any ideas?

[abhaypawar]

Thanks, just installed node red, figuring out the connectivity. finding issue with the password.

[abhaypawar]

[error] [server:Home Assistant] Home assistant connection failed with error: Connection to home assistant could not be established with config: https://abhay.duckdns.org:8123

[Jer78 (Jeremy Percival)]

Try using your local IP or change the port to 443 since you probably have that forwarded to 8123