Amazon Echo+GE Link Bulbs+Smart Things?

[joshua_lyon (Josh, SharpTools.io Dashboard)]

The Echo → SmartThings → Bulb functionality isn’t natively available, but SmartThings has mentioned that they are working on official integration and several community members have it working through alternative means (eg. custom hue bridge emulators).

Here’s some instructions showing how to do this with a custom Hue Bridge Emulator if you are a tinkerer:

Playing around with Amazon Echo (technical interface discussion)

I guess Google and Oracle (Sun Microsystems) are still in court or appealing, to determine whether or not “copying an API” (i.e., the API to various Java libraries) is a copyright violation. If you don’t use the documentation to build an emulator, then you’ve not agreed to any license… technically. But that would be a difficult task.

I’m personally using the node.js version by @schettj along with forever.js to keep the server running:

GitHub - schettj/echostadapter: Echo to Smartthings via Wemo upnp

Here’s where Ben indicated SmartThings is working on official integration:

SmartThings Hub Version 2.0

I think it is worth waiting. New customers won’t have the pain points of migration. Plus we’re working on the Echo integration internally (as well as in the community).