I recently set about trying to get hue emulation to work on my home assistant setup and while the documentation on the official homeassistant page looks pretty straightforward and i think I’ve followed it exactly, I can’t get Alexa to discover my devices. Below is my configuration.yml file.
-Homeassistant OS 11.5 running in a VM in Proxmox
-Homeassistant Core 2024.2.1
-Alexa device is a Fire TV cube 3rd Gen
emulated_hue:
# type: alexa # option is deprecated. It is no longer necessary to define type.
host_ip: 192.168.1.118
listen_port: 80
expose_by_default: false
exposed_domains:
- light
- switch
entities:
light.second_floor_l2:
name: "Living Room"
hidden: false
Output of http://:80/description.xml
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<root xmlns="urn:schemas-upnp-org:device-1-0"><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" id="dark-mode-custom-link"/><link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" id="dark-mode-general-link"/><style lang="en" type="text/css" id="dark-mode-custom-style"/><style lang="en" type="text/css" id="dark-mode-native-style"/><style lang="en" type="text/css" id="dark-mode-native-sheet"/><specVersion><major>1</major><minor>0</minor></specVersion><URLBase>http://192.168.1.118:80/</URLBase><device><deviceType>urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:Basic:1</deviceType><friendlyName>Home Assistant Bridge (192.168.1.118)</friendlyName><manufacturer>Royal Philips Electronics</manufacturer><manufacturerURL>http://www.philips.com</manufacturerURL><modelDescription>Philips hue Personal Wireless Lighting</modelDescription><modelName>Philips hue bridge 2015</modelName><modelNumber>BSB002</modelNumber><modelURL>[http://www.meethue.com](http://www.meethue.com)</modelURL><serialNumber>001788FFFE23BFC2</serialNumber><UDN>uuid:2f402f80-da50-11e1-9b23-001788255acc</UDN></device></root>
Output of http://:80/api/v2/lights
{"1":{"state":{"on":false,"reachable":true,"mode":"homeautomation"},"name":"Living Room","uniqueid":"00:c6:66:08:ba:09:60:c1-8c","manufacturername":"Home Assistant","swversion":"123","type":"On/Off light","productname":"On/Off light","modelid":"HASS321"}}
So based on this its supposed to work but when i try to find the device on the Alexa app nothing appears. I followed the method of add device>light>philips hue v1 bridge(circular shape). Would appreciate any help pointing me in the right direction thank you!