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Vera home automation

I see all kinds of home automation integrations, but all of these integrations are with very low end, limited capability controllers. Are you going to integrate with the very popular Vera? formerly known as micasaverde vera. I would buy an echo for each room if this integration was ever done. Thanks!
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I have the latest Vera released and would not call it high end. However, there is a hacked integration that works great, same as the HUE and SmartThings but you will need a local computer running a JVM. https://github.com/armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge
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I've seen that hack, thank you. I was hoping for something integrated at some point. You have the very buggy vera edge I take it? If you get the vera3 or vera lite with UI6, i'm sure you will have a much better experience. In my opinion, the only thing more capable currently out there is the home seer. The company sucks, the customer service sucks, and the hardware is very expensive and hard to come by. This is my only point on vera vs the other options out there. Its a pretty good product all things considered. Thanks!
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