Emulated Hue on HE possible?

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I have a Harmony Hub with Companion remote and have used various methods over time to link the Home Control buttons on it to Hubitat devices. I have used a modded version of Dan's @ogiewon community Harmony driver and am currently running an emulated Hue on Home Assistant on a Pi. But to then link that back to Hubitat devices I have to use the MQTT alpha so it is a bit convoluted. It does work fine, but it would be a lot simpler if there was some way to run a Hue Emulator app directly on Hubitat.

So, I know the Harmony Hub will find and work on an emulated Hue system as it finds the one from Home Assistant, and I know Hubitat can create some sort of emulated Hue as it used to for the Amazon Echo app, so it feels like it should be possible to get a proper emulated Hue on Hubitat.

Anyone with better coding skills than me (that's 99% of you!) fancy a challenge?

I'm very willing to test and provide any info needed from the HA Hue Emulator etc.

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Just a guess - but I imagine the Amazon Echo App (not the Skill) functions by acting as a Hue emulator.

Wouldn't hurt to try it ....

Edit - nope didn't work. Sorry.

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When searching on this I read that the Echo app Hue emulation isn't discoverable apparently.

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Yeah - found that out by trying to discover it from another Hubitat.

Wonder how Alexa finds it?

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Interestingly, Hubitat itself can't discover the emulated Hue running on my HA system, even though Harmony can.

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Interesting. A while back I was running HAbridge, and I know I got Hubitat to discover devices exported as Hue bulbs by HAbridge.

That's how I got "eject" and "mute" switches into HE at the time.