HE853 and the Home automation bridge for Amazon Alexa

What is it?

The HA-Bridge emulates a Philips Hue Light which can be directly controlled by Amazon Alexa. The HA-Bridge itself has a growing number of systems and possibilities to control. Additional home automation software is not required but integrations exist.

HE853 command and HA-Bridge usage

Since one of the capabilities of the HA-Bridge is execution of a local command, it's easy to control a device with the HE853 command.

Just add a new device like Kitchen Light, select with On items Execute Command/Script/Program as Type and enter for example he853 2000 1 to switch the ID 2000 on. Same applies for off sending a 0 instead. Now let Alexa discover devices and have fun.

HE853 command and HA-Bridge from remote

If the bridge and the cli are not on the same system you may still use it. For example you could setup ssh with keys to access the he853 command or as described in the README create some http wrapper(PHP/CGI) to execute it this way.

I haven't paired devices?

The procdure to pair the HE853 device is just to get the device to be paired in pairing mode and send a ON signal.