Emulated Hue Bridge can support up to 69 devices now?

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I have upgraded my HA to 0.57.2 and it seems to break the Multiple Instances Emulated Hue custom component by @shenning00.

So I gave the official Emulated Hue component another try. To my surprise, Alexa can discover up to 69 devices even though I have 80 devices exposed by HA. I thought the maximum devices Alexa can support is only 49.

Can anyone confirm what is the maximum emulated Hue bridge devices Alexa can actually support at the moment?

UPDATE 1: Managed to increase the number of devices from 66 to 69.

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ahhh that’s why my ALexa stopped working, man …

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Me three :frowning:

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I’ll try out the HA without the custom emulated_hue component.

@masterkenobi - so, this might mean we can stop using (and supporting) the custom multi-emulated_hue?

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No. Your custom component is very valuable to me. Your solution makes it possible to add unlimited devices. There is still limit on the official version.
I just wish your component can become the official component to avoid compatibility issue in future.

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Yep - well I don’t have control over making it ‘official’. The maintainers want to get rid of emulated_hue and focus on a cloud approach.

I ran my own little test and was able to register 61 devices. I would have to spend some more time on configuration to get more devices to show up.

But, you are seeing the limit of 68? Ok - that’s a step in the right direction.

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I managed to discover up to 69 devices. The device discovery process is painstakingly time consuming. I gave up after a dozen tries and settled with 69. Perhaps others have better luck?

I wish there is a button on the HA frontend that I can press for Alexa to discover the devices instead of manually restarting/rebooting each time I want Alexa to discover new devices.

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remove them from the web app, and run discovery again, I have 90 devices (then restart hass)

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I find (found :frowning: ) it very useful as I can hide devices from my Harmony hub with it. Even if (when) a more direct link to Alexa from HA is released into the wild like the Google Assistant one, I’d still need emulated_hue for use with Harmony.