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Philips Hue emulator that is able to control multiple types of lights
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Amazon Alexa - Rooms not being reported to Alexa during discovery #76

Closed shbatm closed 6 years ago

shbatm commented 7 years ago

Hello, during my setup and attempting to move from an actual Hue Bridge to your emulated bridge, I noticed that the Hue Scenes and Hue Groups are not being reported to Alexa/Echo during Discover Devices.

Expected behavior: Alexa discovers Rooms as a device and Scenes as scenes in the Alexa app after Disabling/Re-enabling the Hue Skill. This is how the Hue Bridge behaves.

Current behavior: Only individual lights are reported to Alexa as devices.

mariusmotea commented 7 years ago

Hi!

I don't have any Alexa device and for this reason is hard for me to debug this issue. Can you help me with config from your original hue bridge to compare with the one from emulator bridge?

Marius.

shbatm commented 7 years ago

Here's a dump of my /api/ from the Hue bridge. Let me know if you need something else. api_username.txt

mariusmotea commented 7 years ago

Thanks, i will check this today and very likely commit some changes.

Marius.

Lynnaut commented 7 years ago

Yes i think - if i have understood everything correctly - the problem is that you need the skill for the rooms and scenes. But you can only activate the skill if you have a phillips hue account wit h a connected bridge. But we cant connect the fake bridge with the myhue account due to the need of the not public remote api.

Jhne92 commented 6 years ago

so at the moment, it is not possible to use alexa with the emulated hue bridge? I have a real hue bridge with all my connected ZigBee lights.

Now i created a RP2 with the emulated hue bridge. Connect it to my original hue bridge. Then i create a WS2812B (ESP8266) Hue Light Strip. And find it in the emulated hue bridge.

There is no option to find the ESP8266 in the real hue bridge or?

Lynnaut commented 6 years ago

You can use the fake bridge with Alexa. But you have to manually add the rooms as groups. Simple discovery and on/off/dimming of the fake lights is still possible without the skill. With the scenes i am not shure. And to your question: No you cant pair the esp with the original hue bridge because it uses zigbee to communicate with the lights instead of wifi like the fakebridge and the esp.

ghost commented 6 years ago

Due to a lack of support for the remote API this will not work. As a work around, I suggest using a third party hub that can combine many devices and supports Alexa. For example Home Assistant.