I have the same issue with Echo Dot V3. Somebody believes there is a chance that this will be fixed in the future?
I’m 85% sure you need a v2 echo or lower on your network to interface with emulated hue.
That is correct. I also have a V1 Echo Dot. If the emulated hue devices are controlled through the V1 device then everything works. But it should be possible to use a single V2 or V3 echo dot to control emulated hue devices without receiving those “light does not appear to be working” responses.
Thx, Rob
The limitation is on amazon side, not home assistant side. Which is why a v2 or v1 is required. I.e. you can’t have all v3’s because they only talk to gen 2 hue bridges. v2 or v1’s only talk with gen 1 hue bridges.
Hmm, confused. I have a V2 bridge and a V3 and a V1 dot. V1 dot with V2 bridge works fine. V3 dot and V2 bridge also works, except receiving “light does not appear to be working” messages. Using both, V1 & V3 dot with V2 bridge works without issues when emulated hue devices are controlled through the V1 dot.
My understanding from all that is that emulated hue does not support the V3 (or V2) echo devices protocol.
Thx, Rob
You have it reversed. Emulated hue emulates the hue bridge gen 1. V2 and V1 echos support gen 1 hue and gen 2. V3 echos do not support gen 1 hue.
Just a side note for anyone interested - as an alternative to control your smart devices using Alexa, you can integrate Alexa directly to Home Assistant by creating a smart home skill - no Home Assistant cloud subscription required.
I’ve been monitoring this thread since the “x does not appear to be working” issue came up for me, and recently I’ve started to look for alternatives, because to be honest, a smart home isn’t very smart if it has issues like this for a prolonged period (almost half a year now?).
That’s how I’ve found this on the Home Assistant instruction, which actually lists the Emulated Hue solution as an alternative to creating a smart home skill:
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa.smart_home/
I’ve done this setup and successfully replaced the Emulated Hue bridge with all it’s issues, although a fair warning - this setup is somewhat lengthy and “takes considerable effort to configure” - as the site mentions.
Thanks petro, now everything makes sense. For me an emulated hue V2 would be the perfect solution but it seems that this is not going to be developed.
Thanks also to Justin_Case. I didn’t know about that. What I don’t like so much about this solution is that it requires home assistant to be accessible from the internet.
I also tried the nabu casa cloud once, but I was not happy either with they way I had to phrase my Alexa commands to control the devices so I went back to emulated hue.
I’ll probably just connect my V1 echo back to the network to fix this.
Could you give an example? What was the difference?
Sorry, I did this sometime last year and I can’t really remember the details but I think it was just much easier to get what I wanted using emulated hue and save the $5/month considering that I did not use any other cloud features anyway.
From what I’ve read, it’s not possible to emulate the V2 bridge. Otherwise it would have been done.
I also tried it once and I also remember that I wasn’t very happy with it too. I don’t know for sure but I think you had (or have) to say something like “Alexa, tell home assistant to turn on …”.
@petro do you know if that’s true, because I also remember that I read somewhere that haaska and nabucasa do the same and with haaska I don’t have to tell Alexa that my questions is about a home assistant entity (like in my example above).
BTW haaska is another (very similiar) option that was discussed in this thread before.
Edit: Looks like I remembered this. That option needs an invocation name (home assistant) and I didn’t like that.
A quick addendum - if you integrate Alexa manually by following the link I gave you, you will be able to control your devices like you would with the Emulated Hue Bridge, so for instance, saying “Alexa, turn off the bedroom light”.
It’s worth checking out the supported platforms part of the instruction:
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/alexa.smart_home/#supported-platforms
I followed the guide and had no issues, but for some reason Alexa does not find any of my scripts. Also made a new post of my issue: Alexa integration does not find devices?
Any update? Alexa back to work with Emulated Hue?
Or only cloud?
Yeah. [0.110.3] is out with Fix emulated_hue compatibility with older devices, but… still no discovery luck here. What about you? Are you having any luck?
Do you have the minimum requirements? Emulated hue requires an gen 1 or gen 2 echo on your network. Without it, it will not work.
Also, emulated hue is very finicky. It has a device limit (subject for debate but the general consensus is that it’s between 50 and 70 devices).
Hi, is there anny actual information about ECHO Dots? echo dot V2 does still work or is this one to new?
It did wok in the past but with the mess in autum it stopped and will also not work using port 80 (but different smart home tool) Just asking because here is the best information overview I could find…
Thanks
Boardy
Have anyone got a clue why the “appears to be malfunctioning” comes up 50% of the time when I use it with my zwave devices. I think it must be a timing issue that Alexa verify the outcome before HA has had time to actually show that it has turned on/off it. If it is a timing issue it seems it could be solved quite easy by just make Alexa wait a little longer before giving it the status. Any good codes that can check? 
OK, found a workaround for the “appears to be malfunctioning” message for devices responding a little slower, I created a input_boolean from Configuration -> Helpers and called it fake_switch. So after that I exposed the input_boolean.fake_switch in emulated_hue and named it “Fake Switch”. Next I renamed all my Zwave devices in emulated_hue . Ex. Old name “Bathroom Sink”, new name “Zware Bathroom Sink”. Now I removed all devices from Alexa and rediscovered them. Finally I created a group called “Bathroom Sink” and in that group I placed “Zware Bathroom Sink” and “Fake Switch” in that group. Done!
Now the fake switch respond right away making Alexa think all is good even if my zwave switch is lagging a second or two. And yeah, you have to create one group in Alexa for each slow device, sorta a pain but it works