Power cycled every Echo device and your router? If you’ve done all that, I’m out of ideas.
Power cycling all echo devices, hass and my routers seems to have fixed the issue? but now it wont discover anything 
gonna try again i guess
thanks
I had the same issue! The culprit seems to be an older Echo Dot I have, because if I unplug it, it doesn’t happen.
with the latest version it’s probably
sudo setcap ‘cap_net_bind_service=+ep’ /usr/bin/python3.7
but how did you issue that command? via regular SSH to port 22 it does not work…
I am on the latest hass.io
EDIT: I was able to login to port 22222 but still this command does not work. I could not find the exact sequence of commands to execute after I connect.
None of my alexa units work with emulated hue. These come up on the alexa app as device malfunction or device unresponsive and haven’t worked since the change to version HassIO 0.99. I am now running version 0.99.2. I have two dots, a v1 and v2, and and two echo’s. Not sure what to do next…It seems from reading this thread its been broken for a while. Is nothing beeing addressed so that we switch to Nabu Casa
You can’t issue the command on hassio running hassOS. You may be able to run the command if you are running hassio in a docker container on ubuntu. I do not know how to do this even though I have a nuc. I bit the bullet like others in this thread and moved to Amazon Alexa Smart Home Skill - Home Assistant. Your other option is ‘hasska’.
Yes, this issue is affecting everyone. Contained in this thread is many solutions and explanations as to why it no longer works.
It cannot be addressed. Amazon changed core behavior and home assistant cannot account for it. The free solution, which has been posted umpteen times is to move to Alexa Smart Home Skill or haaska. Both of these solutions are time consuming to set up. The main difference between the 2 are authentication. Alexa Smart Home Skill uses home assistant to authenticate, haaska uses amazon to authenticate. Both have identical functionality to NabuCasa.
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To keep calls local, another solution is the node red Amazon-Echo package.
https://github.com/datech/node-red-contrib-amazon-echo
The node has already been updated to use port 80. Its plug and play if the HASSIO node red Add-On is installed. (Provided port 80 is available.) Its a bit more powerful too, since you can have an alexa command hooked up to far more than just lights and switches. “Alexa, turn on my wife” …music starts, curtains draw, lights dim…
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What do they use to communicate with alexa? Still a hue emulation, just through node red?
Yep, I believe so. The big difference being that it assumes everything is a colored light. You take the command and feed it to whatever you want, ignoring or utilizing the color, brightness, etc as needed.
Yeah, that sounds like the emulated_hue integration for home assistant.
Except this is working right now, and the node red element makes it quite flexible.
Hi guys, I had the same problem, emulated hue entities stopped working with alexa.
I personally switched to this solution: https://alexa-node-red.bm.hardill.me.uk/
and it works very nice for me.
I use node-red for 98% of my home assistant automations, so I thought I would give this a quick test.
Only caveat I see is that in order for it to listen on port 80 in node-red, you have to run node-red as root (which I do not) or do the all iptables trick mentioned for home-assistant hosts earlier in this thread
I believe the difference with this one is that its using skills and not local.
If you are using the Hassio Node Red Add-on it doesn’t require that. (I dont know why).
Gotcha. I don’t use hassio, (I run HA in a docker container currently) so that explains it.
Bummer. It begs the question how the add-on, essentially a docker container too, is doing the magic.
I setup Haaska when my Hue Emulation broke. I couldn’t be happier. Devices show up to Alexa properly now (everything looked like lights using Hue Emulation), now I get switches, locks, thermostat, lights, etc and previously my color lights didn’t work properly with Alexa, now they do. Sure Haaska does non local calls, but anytime you ask Alexa anything, its not local anyway 
Thanks Petro…looks quite complicated…What do you think is the easiest for Hassio and a programming novice…Do you think that’s it for emulated hue now…It won’t be fixed by amazon or homeassistant