Hue Emulation: Update from openHAB 2.5.x to 3 - Alexa didn't find items

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Hi openHAB-Community,

Hue Emulation 3.0.0 with openHAB 3 didn’t find any items from Amazon Alexa in my installation.

I have a fresh openHAB 3 installation und integrated all ITEMS und THINGS files from my openHAB 2.5.x installation. I have read the documentation here: openHAB Hue Emulation - System Integrations | openHAB (I’m not sure about the right steps).

Hue Emulation with Amazon Alexa did not work on my openHAB 3 installation. In the Alexa-App no items were discovered from openHAB 3.

Is there a best practice how to switch from openHAB 2 to openHAB 3 with Hue Emulation and Amazon Alexa?

I have also tested with this SNAPSHOT 23.01.2021 - Getting Hue emulation working with Alexa again - #13 by MikeJMajor (I’ll get the same error).

In the debug-mode from Hue Emulation I did not found any problems.

I’ll have installed openHAB 3 under port 8080 (the same port on openHAB 2.5.x)

If I call http://IP/api/status, I’ll get this:

Self test
To access any links you need be in pairing mode!

Pairing mode: Off (V2) Enable | Enable with bridge V1 emulation

58 published lights (see http://IP:8080/api/testuser/lights)
209 published sensors (see http://IP:8080/api/testuser/sensors)
UPnP discovery test
service not registered

serial no name
…
16:EE:27:85: openHAB Hue Emulation (IP)
…

Reachability test
URL Responds? Ours?
http://IP:8080/description.xml yes yes
http://IP/description.xml no no
http://IPV6:8080/description.xml yes yes
http://IPV6/description.xml no no
Users

16:EE:27:85: ist not the whole ID from the bridge! - I’m not sure if this is a problem …
On openHAB 3 I’ll get “service not registered” on openHAB 2 “registered”.

When I switch back to openHAB 2.5.x it works fine and new items wer discovered.

I have not installed NGINX. Is it needed for openHAB 3?

Should I do my next tests with Hue Emulation 3.0.0 or Snapshot 3.1.0?

Is there a “Tutorial” what steps I can do?

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Reinhard

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For OH 3.0 you need to install nginx as mentioned in the documentation to be able to pair with Alexa

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Hi Mike,

thank you very much. I have don the nginx and now the items were found.

At the Moment I have a problem mit the german umlauts:

  • Licht Gästezimmer (Hue Emulation 3, openHAB 3)
  • Licht Gästezimmer (openHAB 2.5.x)

Do you have any idea for the umlauts?

Thanks,
Reinhard

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Hi,

I have tested with 3.1.0 SNAPSHOT from 23.01.2021 then all german umlauts are ok.

Thanks,
Reinhard

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