HA Bridge with Home Assistant

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Hello all, I’m new to Home Assistant and the community, hope I’m posting to correct category. I’ve been using a VeraEdge for several years along with HA Bridge running on a Raspberry to enable voice commands for Alexa. My Vera seems to be on its last legs so I’m experimenting with Home Assistant as a replacement. BTW, I keep seeing people refer to HASS and also HA, do both of those refer to Home Assistant? Anyway, I loaded Home Assistant (HA) in the OS mode on a separate Raspberry.

Most of my devices are z-wave. I purchased a z-wave stick, plugged it into the pi and it configured fine and I’ve added a couple of z-wave switches that work fine. I loaded the latest version of HA Bridge in order to link to my HA to test voice. When I used HA Bridge with my Vera, I simply had to scroll down on the bridge control tab and enter the IP for my Vera in the appropriate section then the menu bar would add links for Vera Devices and Vera Scenes. I could then just choose a device or scene, click on build item and all the appropriate info would be added for me in order to create a bridge device.

I did the same on my new HA Bridge setup, entering my IP and password for Home Assistant in the appropriate spot. After clicking save, a menu item was added for HomeAssistant Devices but no devices are displayed and I get the error “Get Hass Devices Error: undefined with status: Server Error - 500”. In the Home Assistant Logs I get the following error/warning: “Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from 192.168.1.159 (192.168.1.159). Requested URL: ‘/api/states’. (Apache-HttpClient/4.5.13 (Java/1.8.0_401))”

I’ve verified I entered the correct password and I also tried it both with the Legacy Password box checked and unchecked, to no avail. Can anyone offer any hints? Thanks!

Dave

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Hass is an older acronym in the early days of Home Assistant, HA is the modern form, and you may see haos which is the OS that runs on bare metal that you are running on your pi.

I can’t answer your specific question, don’t have much experience with HA-bridge. However I am not sure it’s needed. There are direct integrations for everything you have, the Hue integration for your lights, Alexa integration can be found in HACS and is pretty robust once set up. I would connect all of your Zwave devices directly to HA via a dongle connected directly to it.

There may be a reason you need to hang on to it, but for most implementations you can simply your setup by having HA connect directly. However there are quite a few that use it and should help you with your setup question.

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Thanks, I finally figured it out. The password doesn’t work, I had to create a token in HA and use that in HA Bridge rather than password.

Dave

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