HA-Bridge 5.3 is missing HomeGenie helper

Started by dkbialik, October 30, 2020, 09:24:55 PM

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dkbialik

I had to replace my PI X-10 hub.  I loaded buster it works.  Home Genie is working (I was able to restore from backup).  HA-Bridge is 5.3.0 it is missing the HomeGenie tab and will not load the backup.  How do I get HA-Bridge to have the HomeGenie helper? 

Tuicemen

In HA-Bridge go to configuration and scroll done to the HG setup you may have to enter the HG info again since a restore isn't  working.
Remember there are two restores  1 for the server configuration and one for devices.
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dkbialik

Now HomeGenie appears and I can turn the devices on and off by the web page for Home Genie and HA-Bridge but Alexa will not control them.  They do get discovered but will not let the on/ off button be shown on Alexa app and will not respond to voice control.  I assume I configured HA-Bridge wrong.  Any Thoughts?

dkbialik

attached is a device screen pdf and the control screen pdf

Tuicemen

Try forgeting each device in the alexa app one at a time forget all doesn't  work. Once all devices have been forgotten do a discovery again. Be sure you can turn devices on and off from HA-Bridge and Alexa still fails I'd open a issue on the HA-Bridge github.
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dkbialik

I have forgotten them and still nothing.  Would I be better treating them as Hue devices instead of Homegenie?

Tuicemen

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Only if they are hue devices. If Ha Bridge will turn on the device but Alexa won't  the issue is the Alexa interface.try stopping HA-Bridge then in the Alexa app forget the devices then rediscover with the bridge not running. If Alexa still discovers them they're not getting removed for what ever reason.
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dkbialik

The amazon app just blinks the on/off switches and the devices are unresponsive.

Tuicemen

I never had much luck using the Alexa app for toggling any device.
Amazon is constantly adding and changing things with it.
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dkbialik

So, after doing nothing for a week, everything started working.  No, I made no changes!  Bewildering!