Controlling Vera home automation Z-Wave controller with Amazon Echo by running an emulator on a Raspberry Pi

This is all made possible by a nifty little Java app written by armzilla. Here's a quick explanation of the setup:

Here are the basic steps I used:

• The latest Raspbian has Java 8 installed, so I used that. I got the Raspbian image from the Raspberry Pi site and 'burned it' on a SD card- (I use Apple Pi Baker).
• Next, I downloaded the Java app and dumped it in the /home/pi folder. I wrote a small bash script to make running it a little easier- this looks like this:
• I used this method to startup the Java app on boot.
• I created both on and off versions for all of my scenes on my Vera- scenes like room- master bed on [id: 58] and room- master bed off [id: 59] - make note of the IDs of these scenes, you' ll need these later
• The configuration of the Java app is done using by using a RESTful API. I used a OS X based tool called Paw To do this. My commands (in text form), looked like this:The name value is the word(s) your want to use to control the Echo. The on/off IDs are at the end of the on/offUrl values
• repeat for all scenes you want to control via your Echo. Also, you'll probably want to save these commands as I used the Forget button on the Connected Home settings screen a number of times while trying to make this work right.
• Lastly, tell echo to discover your emulated controller. The command to do this is Alexa, discover devices
• Once 'she' finds the devices, you can control them using the command Alexa, turn master bedroom on

This is certainly a hack, but it seems to be working OK for me over the last couple of days. It would be nice if they just played together natively.