Echo Dot + HA Bridge what's the next step?

[StanHD]

I have had a really good solid experience with V3.5.0, so thought I would upgrade to V4.0.3.

Big mistake, although all my existing devices still worked I just couldn't work out the new add device interface.

Editing existing devices just showed the entire JSON command in the first http box. I tried to add a new device from scratch, but no luck. So I have reverted to V3.5.0.

All is working great again now.

[blackdog65]

Many thanks Stan,
I'll revert to 3.5.0

Without a Domoticz interface, Alexa becomes a joke telling doorstop

Sean

[michaldobrotka]

Thanks Guys,
I was just looking around whats new in 4.0 and thinking to upgrade, but, I´m rather staying at 3.5.

[StanHD]

Many thanks Stan,
I'll revert to 3.5.0

Without a Domoticz interface, Alexa becomes a joke telling doorstop

Sean

Yep, totally agree; However, I must say that for me with the HA-Bridge it really enhances my installation.
I'm running HA-Bridge on a "spare" RPi, (my Domoticz installation runs on a NUC under Windows), in the period I took it off line to upgrade and revert, we were pathetically going about the house asking Alexa to override lighting, turn on the TV, turn off the extract etc. none of which worked of course. We actually had to use switches ...... unbelievable

Anyway all working again now. ........... "Alexa, tell me a joke" .......

[blackdog65]

Similar here except I use a cubietruck instead of a NUC.

In 3.5.0 there is

Requester Address (comma separated list)

which I assume allows only "The Kitchen Dot" to turn on the "Kitchen Lights" etc. I can't see why that's useful. What would be MUCH better would be if "The Kitchen Dot" recieved a "Turn on the lights" it turned on "Kitchen Lights" and similar for other dots in other rooms. Maybe one day

[MikeF]

Does anyone know what the limit is in Echo for the number of Philips Hue devices you can control - which obviously will also be the limit for HA-Bridge?

I'm currently using this approach: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=15710, which emulates WeMo devices and uses a single python program. There's a limit in Echo of 14 (virtual) WeMo devices, and I've already hit this limit (on / off switches).

If the HA-Bridge limit is higher, I'll switch to that.

[StanHD]

Does anyone know what the limit is in Echo for the number of Philips Hue devices you can control - which obviously will also be the limit for HA-Bridge?

I'm currently using this approach: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=15710, which emulates WeMo devices and uses a single python program. There's a limit in Echo of 14 (virtual) WeMo devices, and I've already hit this limit (on / off switches).

If the HA-Bridge limit is higher, I'll switch to that.

I currently have 30 entries / devices in my HA-Bridge

[MikeF]

Got this working well!

I have a LightwaveRF dimmer, which has 32 steps. I discovered that I needed to use the following URL to dim it across its full range:

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http://<DOMOTICZ URL:PORT>/json.htm?type=command&param=switchlight&idx=<IDX>&switchcmd=Set%20Level&level=${intensity.math(X*32/255)}

When you use intensity.math, X takes values from 0 to 255.

Similar approach would apply for dimmers with 16 & 100 steps - just replace '32' accordingly.