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This project was made to have all Philips Hue futures at a much lower price, plus some extra futures like email alarm when one motion sensor is triggered. By default it can work just with wifi lights and sensors based on esp8266 platform, but it can be extended also to Zig-Bee devices using the RaspBee module, or it can control just ZigBee lights with Ikea Tradfri Gateway or the original Philips Hue Bridge. With Raspbee module is possible to control directly all ZigBee lights and to use a number of ZigBee switches and sensors. I put more attention on IKEA Tradfri devices because these have accessible prices and can be found on lot of countries.
To have the Hue Emulator running you will need just the files HueEmulator.py and config.json from BridgeEmulator folder. The file coap-client-linux is compiled for arm devices like raspberry pi and is used for communication with Ikea Tradfri Gateway so you will need it only if you want to control from Hue application(s) the lights paired with your Tradfri Gateway. No startup method is provided, user can choose any method based on the OS that will be used. On Raspberry PI user can choose to use a systemd script like in this tutorial, or it can just add it to rc.local file (first path must be changed to HueEmulator.py location). Because nmap command is used for lights auto-discover on windows lights must be added manually in configuration witch is not so simple.