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petera:
 :-[I probably should start a new post on this topic but in case we are treated to the joys that are all things ESP8266 this has already been tried as a solution for Alexa control. As you may or may not know it’s always been about fooling Alexa into thinking that you are using a registered Alexa skill. Better known as emulators. Amazon twigged this early on and as as a result regularly update their firmware to eradicate the emulator. As with the HA Bridge if you go this route it needs to be regularly maintained by someone who actually knows what they are doing. This is worth a read just to give you an insight into all things Alexa emulators https://www.toptal.com/arduino/esp8266-arduino-tutorial-alexa-hack

Tuicemen:
Yes a new thread would be better so split it off to here.
Nice artical, especially for those with no experiance with a ESP chip or using the ardiuno software. Another cool point is HG can controll Wemo switches natively.

Tuicemen:
I have been experimenting with a $2 ESP-01 module for a couple of weeks now thinking of ways to utilize this into my X10 HA setup. With the web server it is possible to control x10 Devices in HG. Setting the ESP up as a wemo hub, though limited to the number of controlable Alexa devices, should be interesting. I was sitting on the fence for picking up a couple of Wemos D1 esp8266 boards. This may be a good project for one or two.  >!

bkenobi:
If you have no experience with ESP devices, I personally would not recommend the chip you have.  I would recommend getting a Wemos board as they are much more full featured and allow for real experimentation.  I have a Wemos D1 and a NodeMCU which are both fine, but most people seem to opt for the Wemos mini boards.  If you are going to be following along with other people's projects to start, you would do well to source one of these two options as they will provide you an opportunity to simply repeat exact steps.  The ESP-01 is an ancient board that nobody uses anymore.  Any tutorials are likely to be from close to 10 years ago and no likely repeatable due to Arduino changes etc.

The nice thing about the ESP architecture is that everything is super cheap because no licenses!  It's like the Arduino but with WiFi and more memory.  They are awesome!

Tuicemen:
The only reason I've been playing with the ESP-01 is it was free.
I've not (yet) had a problem implementing any ESP8266 sketches.
Though I've not tried the project petera links to I did try a simular project that allows up to 14 devices to work with Alexa.
https://github.com/kakopappa/arduino-esp8266-alexa-multiple-wemo-switch
Alexa does see the devices I programed in though I've not coded in the actual location of the switches (gpio pin or something else).
The Wemos D1 modules are in my shopping cart but  I've not hit the purchase button rofl
I was hoping to get a few ideas from X10 users in this thread http://forums.x10.com/index.php?topic=31437.0
The internet is full of projects for the ESP8266 modules, the task is sorting through them all.  :-[
Since it is possible to control several things with one board I'm begining to wonder if I realy need the number in my shopping cart. ::) :'

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