Emulated Hue depending on a specific Echo being online (was: EH not working in 0.61)

[anon43302295]

I have always had a 2nd gen echo dot.

It has always worked with emulated_hue.

If your dot can discover your hue bridge, then it can discover emulated_hue. To Alexa emulated_hue is a hue bridge. That’s why it’s called emulated_hue.

The only blip I had was my own fault, and detailed here…

(another) PSA on emulated_hue

Yeah, it is, my point is that I didn’t conceive going over when I added my ir codes, and I bet lots of people do it by accident with template switches, and they don’t go back to the docs, they come here and ask. Not once in all the threads about it have I seen a suggested as the problem, so I figured I’d chuck it in to the mix for general consumption

I suspect that when people have called amazon support and been told that it’s not supported its because the ‘support’ staff have zero clue what emulated_hue is.

[Bobby_Nobble]

At least one person who’s spoken to the Alexa devs has been specifically told they don’t support the oldest API on the new Echos but currently have no intention of backdating that to older versions like the Gen 2 Dot.

There are some that I’m convinced it has failed due to them changing their network in some unintentional but fundamental way, a couple have admitted it coincided with router changes.

Personally, I’ve never had an issue with it on my Gen 2 Dots and Harmony Hub.