Problems with emulated hue

Third party integrations
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Hello I have been trying to make emulated hue work for 4 days with out success could someone please look at this and tell me where I am going wrong
I have copied the config file into this message .
Thanks for reading Chris.
I have done it this way as I dont know how to upload the yaml file

Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove.

default_config:

Load frontend themes from the themes folder

frontend:
themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes

automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml

Amazon Echo example configuration.yaml entry

emulated_hue:
listen_port: 80
expose_by_default: true
exposed_domains:
- light
entities:
light.bed_4:
name: “Bed 4”

Amazon Echo/Alexa stopped working on different ports. Search for “Philips Hue Bridge V1 (round)” in the Alexa App to discover devices.

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FWIW, I switched from Hue emulation to Matter Hub and it’s a more capable solution. It lets you expose a wider variety of entities (light, switch, lock, climate, fan, sensor, etc).

Think of it as “Matter emulation”.

As long as your Amazon Echo is at least 4th generation, it will discover the emulated Matter entities.

3

Do all my amazon devices need to be 4th generation or can just just one be generation.

4

Hi,

Your Amazon Alexa configuration format is incorrect, should be

emulated_hue:
  listen_port: 80
  expose_by_default: false
  entities:
    light.bed_4:
      name: “Bed 4”
      hidden: false

If you can’t find the entity in the mobile alexa app then try to delete app cache and data on your mobile phone. Re-login the Alexa mobile app and search for “other” devices again.

5

Hello thanks for that but it still does not work although the home assistant bridge is visible on my home network

6

A minimum of one is needed to detect and register the Matter-enabled devices.

7

Emulated hue does not work anymore. Not sure why documentation has not been updated. Amazon now requires unencrypted and encrypted connection. I read you can get it to work with a bunch of SSL/reverse proxy trickery, but it is complicated.

The matter bridge addon posted above works great, although a little annoying to go into the addon UI and set labels of your home assistant devices you want to expose. I am running the OG version, not the new fork which is not under development anymore. Once that is done, go to amazon app to search for new devices

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Riddix’s fork of t0bst4r’s abandoned project is now over 700 commits ahead. In other words, it contains hundreds of bug fixes and enhancements. If assigning labels is not to your liking, it offers other selection methods.

FWIW, I switched to Riddix’s fork a few days after t0bst4r released the final version. All 45 devices were transfered without any problems.

EDIT

Anyone wishing to use the Emulated Hue integration in order to Alexa-enable their lights should first give Matter Hub serious consideration.

9

Hello and thank you I have now set up the matter bridge and it works well.

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Thanks. I just switched too. Just need to move data between addon_config directories. Super easy.

11

Glad to hear it’s working well for you.

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Because it works :wink: