Haven’t noticed anyone else asking about this. Is it possible to run both active at the same time? The only reason I wanted to know this is because the HA-Bridge allows you to turn on and off scenes whereas I think with the Alexa Beta (even the latest revision) you need to have seperate scenes for on and one for off.
So I was wondering if I could use the native Alexa Skill for all my devices and uncheck all the scenes, but have the HA-Bridge running and only use it for the Scenes?
I am doing both without any problems. I use ha bridge to run some http requests to my android tablet and camera. You just need to have different device names for ha bridge and Vera alexa plugin.
Funny, came here 4 years later asking the very same question. Except now, Amazon has broken the Alexa Discovery process to the point that HA-Bridge requires recoding (underway now).
Good thing I never made the leap from Vera’s Alexa bridge! (yet)
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