I am using port 8300. Having deleted all devices turned off all alexa devices…I switched on one alexa echo to collect device information, then switched on the other echos that I have. If you do it with all alexa’s on it gets confused, naming devices twice, one Royal Philips the other Dimming. So far so good…It’s been on for 30 hours now and no real problem…I will eventually go back to Haaska as I like the extra functionality…
How many V2 echos do you have on your network. You likely have an echo with the old firmware which is now driving everything. When that echo updates it’s firmware, emulated hue will no longer work.
I have two v2 dots with latest firmware, one v1. Also echo v1 and echo v2. I have queried all of them and they are all latest firmware
Could you please list the device and the firmware version?
thanks! I’ll give that a shot. I had tried going to 80 but got nothing discovered. Went back to 8300 and everything got discovered but nothing worked. just kept saying the device was not responding, check its network connection and power supply.
1 x Amazon Echo (1st Generation) 641571120
1 x Amazon Echo (2nd Generation) 645583520
1x Echo Dot (1st Generation) 645584020
2 x Echo Dot (2nd Generation) 2785574276
The software when probing seems to give the wrong firmware versions per device, when you compare them to what is listed on
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201602210
This could be alexa holding on to old info, but it’s also promising. As you said port 80 discovered nothing.
Maybe alexa fixed the port 8300 issue.
at this point, i just want it to work to make the wife happy. 
I’ll play around with the other options later
That’s the old firmware. When that updates to the latest:645583520, your emulated hue will start failing.
EDIT: That link information is not up to date.
Unfortunately, I think this is a false alarm on @brinzlee’s end because he still has old firmware running.
Ok…I did have all the problems as mentioned through this thread…I guess the uk hasn’t been updated with the latest version then yet.When queried they all say up to date…All I can say is it didn’t work, device unresponsive etc, and now it does…good luck all in your quest
What’s happening is that they are rolling out the firmware. When the firmware hits a device, that firmware will break the coms between home assistant and alexa. A simple restart of home assistant and a rediscover will fix the issue because the other non-update alexa will start the communication. This cycle will repeat until all echo’s are updated.
For me, my first echo got hit a month ago, I restarted everything was fine. My second (and last) echo updated 2 weeks ago forcing me to switch to port 80. So I had a 2 week window where 1 echo was updated and the other was on the old firmware. You are current in that limbo period.
What a nightmare…I guess I’ll have to wait for D-Day…I will attempt hasska then…Shame Amazon code writers couldn’t leave their medling alone !!
Haha, that’s what I did.
Couldn’t be said any better
Yes I removed all devices and rediscovered them on port 80 for functioning emulated hue. I am using home assistant 0.91.2 and never updated because everything was working prior to this issue.
Have you thought about getting a router that supports port forwarding? $100 for a new router or $5/mo for cloud.
I currently am using an asus dsl-ac68u (which supports port forwarding) and a 4g Huawei wireless router (which also supports port forwarding). Unfortunately my isp was bought out a few years ago and since then they have removed public ip and port forwarding.
Port forwarding is not available on nearly all Optus (My current isp) 4g services as you are not provided a public IP address - only shared NAT IP address.
I will change isp once my house get wired up again (no more 4g internet) but that is at least 1 year away… so it looks like cloud is the only option…
Can I ask one more question… can I instead use node red locally as an alternative?
Then I can stick with emulated hue/Alexa app for remote access?
This seems to work for the various input_boolean “switches” I’m using to control some of my scenes, also. Thanks!
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Sad to say that these devices eventually revert to being dimmers in the Alexa app. I guess Alexa is re-scanning devices over time and changing them back to dimmers. Let me know if it works better for you.
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