I'd like to be able to control the lights with my Amazon Echo - HA bridge (https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge) could possibly get it working but I'm not sure of the HTTP commands to send it to my light. I'm sure there is a workaround somewhere but I'm yet to find it with my endless google searching. If some how you can add this or point me in the right direction on how to do this that would be great
You need to use the json interface that Hyperion-remote uses. https://github.com/penfold42/hyperion-lirc Is a perl script I wrote to control a Hyperion instance for an IR remote control. Too funny you should post this - my brother offered me one tonight and this was my first use case !
if you just want to turn it on and off and have homeassistant there's a component for hyperion, then activate the hue_bridge and this lets you say, alexa turn off hyperion.
Yep, works for me and I use emulated_hue as there's virtually nothing to do to set it up. Alexa and Harmony then automatically pick it up so I can shout at it, press a button as well as have it as part of an automation.
Yeah Biggles i meant emulated hue, it was late when i posted. But yeah very easy to setup for a noob, good starting point just to control things with alexa. @penfold42 wish i had a geek brother who gave me things lol
Assumed that was what you meant it was aimed at the OP as an easier starting point than HA-Bridge if you were going to do Home Assistant anyway.
I'm not finding a place where I could turn it on and off really in home assistant- the best I've been able to do is have it turn "on" in home assistant and set the default color to (0, 0, 0). Is there a better way to do this that you could help me with? Thanks so much!
Hey guys, Sorry to ask here but is there a simple actual guide to share here how I can setup Alexa to turn on and off Hyperion (like we do via Hypercon)?
That support site in the previous post is a scam. USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. If you do some self investigation of the site it mentions you well find some shady posting practices.
