I am trying to add a Emulated Hue device to Home Assistant.
I am running a Raspberry Pi 3 with Home Assistant 0.41.0 installed.
I have also added the lights component (platform: hue) to make sure that it installs the phue deps.
When I enter the following commands it all is successful:
http://:8300/description.xml
http://:8300/api/pi/lights
When I do a search with the Phillips Hue app on my phone it detects the Emulated Hue device, but when I click on the Set up button the message reads " Press the push-links button on the Hue bridge you want to connect to.", and a progress line counts down, it then just returns to the search screen again.(Stuck in a loop).
The goal is to control my lights via Home Assistant by using Alexa (DIY: https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app) The Alexa part works just fine, and I have added the Philips Hue component to my Alexa Skills, but I need the Emulated Hue to be added to the meethue.com or phone app to work with Alexa and HA.
I am not sure if Philips realized this workaround their device and implemented the step where you have to physically click a button?.
I know that when I set up emulated hue for use with my google home you have to set the type to google home in the configuration and apparently that bypasses the āpressing the buttonā setup. Sorry I donāt have the echo to test if thatās the case as well. Also in order for it to work with google home it needs to be changed to port 80. Hereās my config, in case it helps at all;
I will try to change the port to port 80 tonight and see if that helps, but I doubt it, because on the HA Component description it states āThis can be any free port on your system.ā.
I have used the HASSbian image for my Home Assistant.
Should I run the following commands?:
sudo setcap ācap_net_bind_service=+epā
/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/bin/python3
I am still struggling with this issue when trying to connect to the Philips Hue (Emulated Hue Device).
When I open the Philips Hue app on my phone and click search it finds my Home Assistant (Emulated Hue Device and lists it, but when I click the Set up button to add the Emulated Hue Device the screen reads āPress the push-links button on the Hue bridge you want to connect to.ā, but I obviously can not do that.
Iām a little confused about what you are trying to do. Are you trying to control your emulated hue devices with Alexa? What are you trying to do with the Hue app? I have a dot, Echo, and Google Home and they all find my emulated devices fine. Google Home I had to run it on port 80. Alexa I just told her ādiscover devicesā and she found them after giving me a line about pressing the button.
From everything Iāve read here the seems to be an ongoing confusion between those that can get it to work and those that canāt. It actually looks to be a simple case that for those that have a physical Home or Amazon box it works fine, those that are trying to do it on the cheap with just Assistant or one of the software Alexaās canāt.
Google have caused a lot of this by calling an app and a piece of hardware the same thing.
The emulated hue component emulates a Hue well enough to satisfy Echo and the Google Home, but itās not compatible with the actual Hue app. Just use the Home Assistant app instead.
I am having a similar issue. I am trying to implement this tool: http://skyue.io/
Skyue is a Skype of Business monitoring tool that can use a Hue bulb as a status light. I want this to notify my family when I am working at home that I am on the phone and to not come in the office.
It integrates with the Hue Hub, but I have the same problem with linking it with the Emulated Hue hub. The app wants me to āpush the buttonā on the Hue Hub. Is there anyway to simulate this? Iām not sure what exactly is happening when the physical button is pressed.
Oh I got it to connect. It required port 80. Itās not working, but at this point I think that the application is out of date and not working with the latest Skype4Bā¦ I donāt think itās the Emulated Hue.