HueEmulation and Google Home support

I think its now impossible to use the Hue Emulation with Google Home. I removed it on mine after months of perfect working, and when i tried to set it up again i also got redirected to the meethue.com site. I tried old versions of the GHome app which worked for some others, but not for me.

So if its working for anyone - dont remove it!

@hypernative - Your only option is to wait for the official Openhab integration discussed here:

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Can confirm. We are no longer being redirected to http://hue-adapter.appspot.com

I installed Fiddler, a network traffic manipulation tool, to my PC and proxied all traffic from my phone through the PC.

Iā€™ve managed to redirect the Google Home Philips Hue pairing URL to http://hue-adapter.appspot.com/ successfully.

Unfortunately, the page just says the same thing as when opening it here in the browser: Please open this site from the Google Home app or similar.

There must be something set in the User-Agent or a Header but I donā€™t know which. If anyone has the old Google Home app available, please sniff the http request to the hue-adapter page.

FFS I just deleted my devices from Google Home so I could relink them as it had duplicates in there and am getting redirected to the dreaded Philips website, and now I come in here and read that itā€™s toastā€¦ Great. Well done Google, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory again. Iā€™ll see if I can get an older version of Home from apkmirror.

So far Iā€™ve been back to versions of the Home app from early October 2017 but all redirect to the Philips website. I suspect it might be a server-side redirection.