Amazon Echo Bridge allows you to quickly emulate a Phillips Hue bridge, bringing the ability to seamlessly integrate an Amazon Echo into various home automation systems.
Also, with an easy to use POST/PUT REST API, it's never been easier before to get your devices up and running with the Amazon Echo with your own embedded applications!
v0.4.0 change log:
- require --upnp.config.address= to be specified during startup
- support more than 25 emulated devices currently set to 75, can be increased at 25 device increments by specifying --emulator.portcount= default is 3 thus 3*25 = 75 total devices. Works by taking emulator.baseport and opening n number of ports sequentially from baseport to baseport+portcount
- relaxed http response codes to anything in the 200 to less than 300 http response codes to support misbehaving resources
other notes: Ive seen some folks able to run this but not able to discover devices. I would recommend checking for devices with duplicate names as i have seen this to cause the echo to reject all devices. The lazy way would be to delete the /data directory and start over.
There are currently three different ways to run the pre-built jar file:
Java - java -jar amazon-echo-bridge-*.jar
Maven - mvn spring-boot:run
Docker - docker build -t amazon-echo-ha-bridge . docker run -ti --rm --net=host amazon-echo-ha-bridge
Additionally, it's also recommended you pass the command line arguments --upnp.config.address
and --server.port
to override the hardcoded values currently implemented.
Examples:
--upnp.config.address=192.168.1.240 --server.port=8081
After the application is started and running, you can access the configurator by accessing http://YOURIP:PORT/configurator.html.
Input your devices using the form at the bottom of the page, add command URLs to parse (useful if you use a system like OpenHAB), and save.
Instruct your Amazon Echo to learn about your devices by saying "Alexa, discover my devices" and your all set!
You can now control devices with your Amazon Echo by saying "Alexa, Turn on the office light" or other names you have given your configured devices.
To view or remove devices that Alexa knows about, you can use the mobile app Menu / Settings / Connected Home, This is needed if you remove a device from the Amazon Echo Bridge.
In case you would like to internally configure your own build of the Amazon Echo Bridge, a few requisites are required.
Ubuntu/Linux - sudo apt-get install maven
OS X - Install Homebrew and run brew install maven
For instance, the server defaults to running on port 8080. If you're already running a server (like openHAB) on 8080, you could edit server.port
in src/main/resources/application.properties
to your desired port before building the jar.
Alternatively you could also pass in a command line argument to override server.port
.
To build the jar file yourself, make your changes and simply run Maven like this:
mvn install
Then locate the jar and start the server using the instructions above. By default maven will put the jar file in the target directory. java -jar target/amazon-echo-bridge-*.jar
Along with registering devices via the Configurator page, you can also push device information via REST to the Amazon Echo Bridge like so:
POST http://host:port/api/devices
{
"name" : "bedroom light",
"deviceType" : "switch",
"onUrl" : "http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=1&DeviceNum=41",
"offUrl" : "http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=41"
}
Dimming is also supported by using the expression ${intensity.percent}
with a value of 0-100 or ${intensity.byte}
with a value 0-255, respectively.
Example:
{
"name": "entry light",
"deviceType": "switch",
"offUrl": "http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=31",
"onUrl": "http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&DeviceNum=31&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:Dimming1&action=SetLoadLevelTarget&newLoadlevelTarget=${intensity.percent}"
}
You can also push additional optional fields, such as:
-
contentType, which currently isn't validated
-
httpVerb, Only POST/PUT/GET supported
-
contentBody: Your POST/PUT body
Like so:
{
"name": "test device",
"deviceType": "switch",
"offUrl": "http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=31",
"onUrl": "http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&DeviceNum=31&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:Dimming1&action=SetLoadLevelTarget&newLoadlevelTarget=${intensity.percent}",
"contentType" : "application/json",
"httpVerb":"POST",
"contentBody" : "{\"fooBar\":\"baz\"}"
}