Harmony Hub cannot find emulated Hue bridge

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I’ve been trying to follow the Emulated Hue guide as well as various threads here for the past two days, but my Harmony Hub just will not find, never mind pair, with my emulated hue running on hassio/home assistant (v0.110.2).

My configuration.yaml currently has the following entries:

emulated_hue:
  host_ip: 192.168.1.nn
  listen_port: 80
  advertise_ip: 192.168.1.nn
  upnp_bind_multicast: true
  exposed_domains:
    - light
    - switch
  expose_by_default: true

and I can see the description.xml if I browse the URL from any device on my network so I deduce that the service is running correctly. Similarly, the /api/pi/lights endpoint gives me a list of all my entities.

My Harmony Hub can only find the ‘real’ (non-emulated) Hue Bridge, however, no matter how many times I’ve asked it to re-scan for devices.

So far, I’ve tried:

  • Both specifying the host_ip of my home assistant Pi and leaving it to self-determine (it’s the same IP anyway)
  • Both specifying the listen_port as 80 and leaving it as the default 8300 (I can view description.xml on whichever port has been configured, so I know this setting is doing something)
  • Both with and without advertise_ip specified
  • Both with and without advertise_port specified
  • Both with upnp_bind_multicast explicitly set to true and leaving it as default (which I can see is also true)
  • Restarting my Harmony Hub
  • Unplugging my actual Hue Bridge
  • Checking that UPNP is enabled in my router (the only reference to UPNP on my Asus RT-AC186U is in the WAN section so I’m not convinced this is relevant)
  • Pulling out hair
  • Clutching at straws

Has support for Emulated Hue stopped recently?

2

I use emulated hue with both my Harmony hubs without any problems. All I have in my config is the ip address and expose_by_default: false. I then list the entities I want to control. I’m using HA Supervised.

3

Ok, weird. I haven’t looked at this again since the other day, but now the emulated hue instance decides to show up when I hit rescan on my Harmony app.
Actually, I think I updated v0.110.4 but there’s nothing in the release notes to suggest that anything hue-related was even touched.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

4

The fix for emulated hue was in 0.110.3

5

Doh! How did I miss that?! Ok, I didn’t realise that my Harmony Hub is now considered an ‘older device’.

For future reference, release notes for this change are here:

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