What is the esay way to use alexa with home asistant?

Configuration
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in order to make all home asistant

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The easy way is to use the Emulated Hue Bridge:

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treno Thanks! :slight_smile:

i just need to add the line ?
how alexa know how to get the info from home assistant?

emulated_hue:
  type: alexa
  listen_port: 80
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any idea? i do not find any info about it.

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HA will position itself as a Hue hub which could be discovered by Alexa if they’re on the same network.

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I have mine setup with listen_port 8300, which I believe is the default.
Say ‘Alexa Discover’ or use the Alexa app to do discovery.
Works great!

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vkorn jfox Thanks!!

So alexa automatic Discover all my home assistant device ?! without to create any skill??

i must tray.

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Nice!!! with 8300 work fine,

now how can i know what i need to tell alexa in order to get info?

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I don’t think you can with emulated_hue except by triggering an external speaker with TTS. If you setup a home assistant skill which take much more work and SSL, amazon account etc, then you can ask,

Alexa, tell me the status of the bedroom light

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yes that only on/ off device :slight_smile: but that fine for me.

just try to find how to make the Xiaomi wireless button to work with HA :slight_smile:

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RobDYI.

Do you know how can i hide some device from alexa?

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Try these in emulated_hue. I just go the Alexa app and erase what I don’t want and rename (by adding into a group in Alexa app) the ones I want. (if you have a iphone you can try the homebridge for homekit with siri)

expose_by_default (Optional):
exposed_domains :

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I dont want to use homebridge :slight_smile:
the main issue every Discover all item is back.

but Thanks!

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I would stick set the expose_by_default to false and put all the entities I wanted Alexa to see in a group, then customize that group to emulated_hue true. You have to remember to add new devices to this group before discovery if you want Alexa to see them. I can see myself spending hours wondering why a new device is not showing up.

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can you show me the code about it?

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homeassistant:
  customize:
    group.alexa:
      emulated_hue: true
emulated_hue:
  expose_by_default: false
group:
  alexa:
    - light.entitiy_you_want_controlled1
    - light.entitiy_you_want_controlled2
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I;ve been trying to set up emulated hue for a couple days, and can’t get alexa to discover anything from HA. Is there something I am missing? The 2 pages listed in the troubleshooting section of the emulated hue documentation return what they should be, so I know it is running. But no amount or restarting HA and tapping discover in the alexa app have worked. I have searched the forum, and see that a lot of other people have experienced the same over the past 6 months or so, but haven’t been able to find a solution. Here is my config. Any ideas?

emulated_hue:
  type: alexa
  host_ip: 10.0.1.9
  listen_port: 8300
  expose_by_default: true
  exposed_domains:
    - switch
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Try commenting out the optional parameters to see if works.

	emulated_hue:
      type: alexa
  #    host_ip: 10.0.1.9
  #    listen_port: 8300
  #    expose_by_default: true
  #    exposed_domains:
   #     - switch

also, try the troubleshooting

TROUBLESHOOTING

You can verify that the emulated_hue component has been loaded and is responding by pointing a local browser to the following URL:

http://:8300/description.xml - This URL should return a descriptor file in the form of an XML file.
http://:8300/api/pi/lights - This will return a list of devices, lights, scenes, groups, etc… that emulated_hue is exposing to Alexa.

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Still no luck unfortunately. Both of the troubleshooting pages return the expected output, but still no discovery of devices by alexa. I think I will hold on this for now, as most of my devices can be supported by installing a few skills. But I may consider HAASKA later on.

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The only other thing is make sure Alexa and HA are on the same network. I use HAASKA and home assistant skills and not emulated hue now that I took the time to set them up.