lights from zigbee2mqtt not discovered by Amazon Echo

[joeashcraft]

Description

With hass-emulated-hue I have 2 lights from zigbee2mqtt ("z2m") which aren't discovered by my Amazon Echo Plus (1st Gen, 2017), while my 2 lights from esphome are.

I suspect this is my Echo being weird, but I wanted to see if anyone has run in to this.

• all 4 lights work from within home-assistant
  • the 2 z2m lights can be controller from the z2m web-ui or from Home-Assistant itself.
• the /description.xml looks OK to me
• the /api/$key$/lights does contain all the lights (2 from zigbee2mqtt + 2 from esphome)
• in Hue Essentials (Android), the hass-emulated-hue bride lets me controll all 4 lights
• I've hard-reset my Echo. It quickly finds the 2 esphome lights again, but never the 2 z2m lights

my devices:

• ❌ 1 IKEA Tradfri light connected to z2m via home-assistant addon.
  Device Pantry Light; entity light.pantry_light; hass-emulated-hue "uniqueid": "zigbee2mqtt_0xe8e07efffe1ba1f5".
  json response from .../lights

  ...
          "2": {
              "state": {
                  "on": false,
                  "reachable": true,
                  "mode": "homeautomation",
                  "bri": 4,
                  "alert": "select",
                  "ct": 454
              },
              "name": "Pantry Light",
              "uniqueid": "zigbee2mqtt_0xe8e07efffe1ba1f5",
              "swupdate": {
                  "state": "noupdates",
                  "lastinstall": "2024-10-19T17:39:45"
              },
              "config": {
                  "config": {
                      "archetype": "sultanbulb",
                      "direction": "omnidirectional",
                      "function": "mixed",
                      "startup": {
                          "configured": true,
                          "mode": "safety"
                      }
                  }
              },
              "capabilities": {
                  "certified": true,
                  "control": {
                      "mindimlevel": 1000,
                      "maxlumen": 800
                  },
                  "streaming": {
                      "renderer": false,
                      "proxy": false
                  }
              },
              "type": "Color temperature light",
              "manufacturername": "IKEA",
              "productname": "Pantry Light",
              "modelid": "TRADFRI bulb E26/27, white spectrum, globe, opal, 1055/1100/1160 lm (LED2003G10)",
              "swversion": "1.0.012"
          }

• ❌ 1 sonoff plug connected to z2m via home-assistant addon; plugged in here is a night light.
  Device Switch2; entity light.switch2 (actually a plug); hass-emulated-hue "uniqueid": "zigbee2mqtt_0x00124b002456de8b"
  json response from .../lights

  ...
                  "1": {
                      "state": {
                          "on": false,
                          "reachable": true,
                          "mode": "homeautomation"
                      },
                      "name": "My night light",
                      "uniqueid": "zigbee2mqtt_0x00124b002456de8b",
                      "swupdate": {
                          "state": "noupdates",
                          "lastinstall": "2024-10-19T17:39:45"
                      },
                      "config": {
                          "config": {
                              "archetype": "sultanbulb",
                              "direction": "omnidirectional",
                              "function": "mixed",
                              "startup": {
                                  "configured": true,
                                  "mode": "safety"
                              }
                          }
                      },
                      "capabilities": {},
                      "type": "On/off light",
                      "manufacturername": "SONOFF",
                      "productname": "Switch2",
                      "modelid": "Zigbee smart plug (US version) (S31ZB)",
                      "swversion": "1.0.7"
                  },
              

• ✅ 2 custom lights from esphome which are actually a floor lamp with 433mhz rf remote.
  • Light A. Device Bridge433 (sonoff rf bridge), Entity light.my_floor_lamp_2, hass-emulated-hue "uniqueid": "00:cc:d8:c1:19:d1:f8:e0-c5"
  • Light B. Device Bridge433, Entity light.my_reading_lamp_2, hass-emulated-hue "uniqueid": "00:d7:50:fd:3e:47:4d:fa-99"
  json response from .../lights

  ...
              "6": {
                  "state": {
                      "on": true,
                      "reachable": true,
                      "mode": "homeautomation"
                  },
                  "name": "My floor lamp",
                  "uniqueid": "00:cc:d8:c1:19:d1:f8:e0-c5",
                  "swupdate": {
                      "state": "noupdates",
                      "lastinstall": "2024-10-19T17:39:45"
                  },
                  "config": {
                      "config": {
                          "archetype": "sultanbulb",
                          "direction": "omnidirectional",
                          "function": "mixed",
                          "startup": {
                              "configured": true,
                              "mode": "safety"
                          }
                      }
                  },
                  "capabilities": {},
                  "type": "On/off light",
                  "manufacturername": "espressif",
                  "productname": "Bridge433",
                  "modelid": "esp8285",
                  "swversion": "2022.9.1 (Sep 10 2024, 23:31:53)"
              },
              "7": {
                  "state": {
                      "on": false,
                      "reachable": true,
                      "mode": "homeautomation"
                  },
                  "name": "My reading lamp",
                  "uniqueid": "00:d7:50:fd:3e:47:4d:fa-99",
                  "swupdate": {
                      "state": "noupdates",
                      "lastinstall": "2024-10-19T17:39:45"
                  },
                  "config": {
                      "config": {
                          "archetype": "sultanbulb",
                          "direction": "omnidirectional",
                          "function": "mixed",
                          "startup": {
                              "configured": true,
                              "mode": "safety"
                          }
                      }
                  },
                  "capabilities": {},
                  "type": "On/off light",
                  "manufacturername": "espressif",
                  "productname": "Bridge433",
                  "modelid": "esp8285",
                  "swversion": "2022.9.1 (Sep 10 2024, 23:31:53)"
              },
          

my suspicions:

• the 2 lights from z2m are devices themselves (with entities to power on/off) while the 2 from esphome are entities of my esphome device.
• hass-emulated-hue generates a hue unique_id differently from the builtin/core emulated_hue. I don't know if Hue API requires a certain format.
• the hass-emulated-hue unique_id is different in /homeassistant/hass-emulated-hue/emulated_hue.json than in the Hue bridge response. The JSON file stores a hash (e.g. 00:f6:9a:bd:ba:46:b1:46-bf), but API response is like zigbee2mqtt_0x00124b002456de8b.

Expected behavior

Alexa discovers all light exposed by hass-emulated-hue

Reproduction steps

1. with zigbee2mqtt, link a zigbee light
2. confirm the light does show up in emulated hue with something like Hue Essentials (android)
3. try to add the light to Amazon Echo
   • in the Alexa app: Devices > Add > Philips Hue Light > Discover Devices

result: the light is not discovered

Relevant log output

# logs of my Echo discovering emulated-hue
2024-10-21 14:31:13,510 DEBUG emulated_hue.apiv1 -- [192.168.1.244] GET /description.xml
2024-10-21 14:31:13,526 DEBUG emulated_hue.apiv1 -- [192.168.1.244] GET /api/redacted/lights
2024-10-21 14:31:13,680 DEBUG emulated_hue.apiv1 -- [192.168.1.244] GET /api/redacted/lights/6
2024-10-21 14:31:13,699 DEBUG emulated_hue.apiv1 -- [192.168.1.244] GET /api/redacted/lights/7
2024-10-21 14:31:13,708 DEBUG emulated_hue.apiv1 -- [192.168.1.244] GET /api/redacted/lights
2024-10-21 14:39:14,089 DEBUG emulated_hue.apiv1 -- [192.168.1.244] GET /api/redacted/lights/6
2024-10-21 14:40:04,770 DEBUG emulated_hue.apiv1 -- [192.168.1.244] GET /api/redacted/lights/7

Operating system

HassOS

Install method

HassOS Addon

Version

0.3.0

Dev Version

No response

Any other information that may be helpful

Hardware

• rpi3-64
• slae.sh CC2652RB stick

Home-Assistant

• Core 2024.10.2
• Supervisor 2024.10.2
• Operating System 10.3
• Frontend 20241002.3
• hass-emulated-hue (add-on) 0.3.0
• zigbee2mqtt (add-on) 1.40.2-1
• Mosquitto broker (add-on) 6.4.1

[Smarthome-Creator]

@joeashcraft , i have a question. Were you able to establish the connection between the add-on and HASS without a problem?

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[joeashcraft]

@joeashcraft , i have a question. Were you able to establish the connection between the add-on and HASS without a problem?

I can use the a HASS Dashboard button to control the lights, so I'd say yes, I was able to establish the connection between the add-on and HASS. (if you had a specific test in mind other than a button on a dashboard, lmk)