Domoticz

How do I implement the Amazon Echo Dot into Domoticz?

Currently I have domoticz running on a Raspberry PI2. I followed the wiki page https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridgeto install the HA-bridge and it's activated. But then I am stuck....whats the next step to get it working?

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl start habridge.service
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ tail -f /var/log/syslog
Jan 20 10:39:01 raspberrypi CRON[2364]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
Jan 20 11:09:01 raspberrypi CRON[2407]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
Jan 20 11:17:01 raspberrypi CRON[2444]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jan 20 11:39:01 raspberrypi CRON[2463]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
Jan 20 12:09:01 raspberrypi CRON[2506]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
Jan 20 12:17:01 raspberrypi CRON[2542]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Jan 20 12:36:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Session c2 of user pi.
Jan 20 12:36:56 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Session c2 of user pi.
Jan 20 12:39:01 raspberrypi CRON[2608]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean)
Jan 20 12:40:51 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started HA Bridge.

Log into the ha Bridge, it should be pretty port 8080.

Once in the bridge go to the manual add device and create a device with the url's for your on and off actions in domoticz.

Lastly once the bridge device is created ask alexa to "find devices"

Port 80 sorry. Domoticz is normally 8080

Yes it's working port 80

Now I have the next challange to get this configured.

I can follow this guide https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Alexa or https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge or are there better manuals?

How can I find the idx of a specific switch? What are the most important fields to configure?

The domoticz alexa wiki seems pretty good.

Just go to the settings icon at the top right on domoticz and select devices.

This brings a list of all devices with their idx

Got it configured with the right IDX (witch I found in the devices field in domoticz) and my 2 switches are discovered. It are Kaku devices, does it work anyway with the echo dot?

If I say for instance "turn on the tv lamp" Alexa say's:

Lamp is not responding, check connection and power supply.

What can be wrong?

Have you checked with the on and off test buttons in HA-Bridge web page?
You should get a response pop-up and the switches should turn on and off accordingly.
If not you will see an error, which probably means a command error.

Just a thought

Yep I've tried that. I got no error that's right. What do you mean with command error, can you be more specific?

When I look into the log file i see an warning:

Error on calling url to change device state: http://192.168.2.17:8080/json.htm?
type=command&param=switchlight&idx=53&switchcmd=On

Component: com.bwssystems.HABridge.hue.HueMulator

Did you tell alexa to find devices?

Yes, and she discovered them.

I call mine with http://192.168.1.10:8080/json.htm?type= ... itchcmd=On

I can't see it much different.

Do you have a space between htm and ?

Hi Chris,

No space between it.

I rebooted my PI and let Alexa discover my devices again. She found it but can't turn it on or off.

When i look into the log file it has a warning:

WARN The upnp config address, 192.168.2.17, does not match any known IP's on this host.

Do I miss a part of the configuration?

This is the whole log:

01-20-2017 20:18:05.290 INFO HA Bridge (v3.5.1) starting.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.HABridge
01-20-2017 20:18:05.334 INFO reading from config file: /home/pi/habridge/data/habridge.config com.bwssystems.HABridge.BridgeSettings
01-20-2017 20:18:05.752 WARN The upnp config address, 192.168.2.17, does not match any known IP's on this host. com.bwssystems.HABridge.BridgeSettings
01-20-2017 20:18:05.754 INFO HA Bridge initializing.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.HABridge
01-20-2017 20:18:05.830 INFO System control service started.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.SystemControl
01-20-2017 20:18:06.485 INFO HABridge device management service started.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.devicemanagmeent.DeviceResource
01-20-2017 20:18:06.574 INFO Hue description service started.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.upnp.UpnpSettingsResource
01-20-2017 20:18:06.588 INFO Initializing UDP response Seocket... com.bwssystems.util.UDPDatagramSender
01-20-2017 20:18:06.615 INFO UDP response Seocket initialized to: 50000 com.bwssystems.util.UDPDatagramSender
01-20-2017 20:18:06.885 INFO == Spark has ignited ... spark.webserver.JettySparkServer
01-20-2017 20:18:06.896 INFO >> Listening on 0.0.0.0:80 spark.webserver.JettySparkServer
01-20-2017 20:18:08.207 INFO Hue emulator service started.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.hue.HueMulator
01-20-2017 20:18:08.295 INFO UPNP Discovery Listener starting.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.upnp.UpnpListener
01-20-2017 20:18:08.300 INFO UPNP Discovery Listener running and ready.... com.bwssystems.HABridge.upnp.UpnpListener
01-20-2017 20:20:27.821 WARN Error on calling url to change device state: http://192.168.2.17:8080/json.htm?type= ... itchcmd=On com.bwssystems.HABridge.hue.HueMulator
01-20-2017 20:20:30.647 WARN Error on calling url to change device state: http://192.168.2.17:8080/json.htm?type= ... itchcmd=On com.bwssystems.HABridge.hue.HueMulator
Logging Configuration

If both are running on the same pi maybe try the loop back address of 127.0.0.1

Did you get anywhere with it?

If they are on the same machine you could try using local host.
I also use a username and password in with the Json command :

http://user:password@localhost:8080/jso ... itchcmd=On


On ha bridge, I just fill in name,
Type: custom.
And then the on and off actions. I don't change anything else.

Finally I got it working.

I made a complete rebuild, because I couldn't find where the problem was.

I still got a warning in the log:

Error reading the file: /home/pi/habridge/data/habridge.config - Does not exist or is not readable. continuing... com.bwssystems.HABridge.BridgeSettings

WARN Issue getting directory listing for backups in directory: /home/pi/habridge/data com.bwssystems.util.BackupHandler

Can anybody help me with that?

I also get the cannot read config file error. But I just added the switches manually and that worked fine. Looking at the config file I had it looked like valid JSON to me but HA-Bridge didn't like it for some reason.

By the way, version 4.0.0 was just released today and is a major update so you may want to try that.

Thanks Phil,

I installed it (v 4.0.1) https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge/ ... -4.0.1.jarhopefully it's a better version.

Hiya,
I've just installed v4.0.3 and the adding of devices (other than naming) is nothing like in the wiki which was written for 2.x.x.
I've used HA-Bridge in the past and it worked ok-ish with my Echo, which I returned due to (at the time) no IFTTT or UK specific features. I'm now trying again, but with a Dot (tired of waiting for Google Home), but having no joy with the new, updated HA-Bridge. Are you supposed to split the command into chunks and drop them into the different boxes?

Any pointers?

Sean