Help with Alexa Media Player and attached devices

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Hello and thank you in advance for any and all help you might be able to provide.

I mostly use esp8266’s flashed with tasmota. They are set up to work as HUE, so Alexa is able to find all my lights, switches, etc., without the use of HomeAssistant (HA).

HA finds the tasmota via mqtt server. Both Alexa and HA are getting the device name/id directly from the tasmota device, which means both Alexa and HA use the same info.

Recently I got 4 evolux light bulbs, and only way to set them up is via Alexa, and only way to access those bulbs from HA is via the Alexa Media Player inegration by clicking on the “Include devices connected via Echo”.

By including those devices I do get access to the evolux bulbs, but it also imports all the other tasmota devices that I already set up in HA. So basically I end up with duplicates of stuff with same ID and my automations are not working properly.

I am contemplating restoring to a couple days ago before I imported the echo attached devices, since now if I uncheck the include echo connected devices, most of my lights become unusable via HA.

Does anyone know how I could only import the evolux lights but not the rest via alexa media player integration?

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So I figured it out! It was a combination of what seems to be a glitch, and me playing with settings I shouldn’t have been playing with.

What threw me off is that my lights/relays entities showed “tasmota” on the integration field, and after I added the Alexa conneted devices the same entities now showed alexa as its integration, but that didn’t cause any of my issues.

The main issue is that I kept trying to mess with the light temperature, but my bulb doesn’t support that. So the automation would crash and it wouldn’t turn on any of the lights.

The glitch that I found is that once I added the rgb bulb with the wrong settings, even if I deleted the rgb entity from the actions part of the automation, the other light wouldn’t turn on.

Once I tried with the wrong rgb setting, the only way I could get the relay light to turn on was by deleting the whole “action”, then creating a new action with the same info. Guessing some bad yaml doesn’t get clear after I deleted the rgb entity from the action, but if I delete the whole action the new action starts with a clean slate.