What should be done after adding a switch to sync with Alexa?

ohadbenita · February 22, 2018, 2:43pm

Following an addition of a switch in HA I want to be able to control it through Alexa.
The cloud status seems connected in HA, discovery has been tried as well but no luck finding the newly-added switch. Any idea on what should be done ?

Thanks in advance

Yanir22 · February 22, 2018, 3:02pm

Restart the HA via SSH.

ohadbenita · February 22, 2018, 3:35pm

Already done…

Yanir22 · February 22, 2018, 3:58pm

So all your switch are sync and one did not show?
or you add how to add all switch to sync with Alexa?

did you add alexa you your config?

emulated_hue:
  type: alexa
  listen_port: 8300

ohadbenita · February 22, 2018, 4:32pm

New ones doesn’t sync, I haven’t added the emulated hue type.
Other switches do show

Yanir22 · February 22, 2018, 4:33pm

try to add the hub

ohadbenita · February 22, 2018, 9:22pm

Didn’t work… any other suggestions ?

Sunonline · February 23, 2018, 8:08am

Alexa App. You have to add home assistant skill from alexa app. register, login.
HA. put cloud: and config: in your configuration.yaml file. Restart your ha. Go to configuration panel in HA frontend, sign in to cloud then you can see ‘connected’
Back to alexa app go Smart Home >devices>click add device

ohadbenita · February 23, 2018, 11:44am

Thanks for your reply @Sunonline but I have already gone through all these steps and still the switch in question won’t show in Alexa, this was my initial issue