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+# amazon-echo-ha-bridge-compact
+emulates philips hue api to other home automation gateways.  The Amazon echo now supports wemo and philip hue... great news if you own any of those devices!
+My house is pretty heavily invested in the z-wave using the Vera as the gateway and thought it would be nice bridge the Amazon Echo to it.
+
+Build
+-----
+The server defaults to running on port 8080. If you're already running a server (like openHAB) on 8080, edit ```server.port``` in ```src/main/resources/application.properties``` to your desired port before building the jar. Alternately you can pass in a command line argument to override ```server.port```.
+
+To customize and build it yourself, build a new jar with maven:
+```
+mvn install
+```
+Then locate the jar and start the server with:
+```
+java -jar -Dupnp.config.address=192.168.1.Z target/amazon-echo-bridge-compact0.X.Y.jar
+```
+replace the --upnp.config.address value with the server ipv4 address.
+
+Then configure by going to the /configurator.html url 
+```
+http://192.168.1.240:8080
+```
+or Register a device, via REST by binding some sort of on/off (vera style) url
+```
+POST http://host:8080/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"
+}
+```
+
+After this Tell Alexa: "Alexa, discover my devices"
+
+Then you can say "Alexa, Turn on the office light" or whatever name 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