How to integrate Tasmota flash device HUE emulation with OpenHab2

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  • Platform information:
    • Hardware: raspberry pi 4
    • OS: openhabian
    • Java Runtime Environment: Zulu Embedded OpenJDK Java 8
    • openHAB version: 2
  • Issue of the topic: Cannot integrate HUE lights over a tasmota flashed plug that emulates a HUE bridge. The two available philips hue e27 color plugs are not discovered. Please provide some guidance.
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Do you have hue binding installed?

Do you see the tasmota bridge?

Lastly, why not use mqtt?

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Hi,

Binding is installed. The bridge is visible in the Paper UI.
I would love to use MQTT. However, when using mqtt.fx, no topics for the HUE lamps are detected in the topics.

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You wouldn’t see Hue lamps publishing to MQTT. Hue doesn’t speak MQTT. But that’s not a problem because the whole point of openHAB is to provide a bridge between different technologies. So openHAB connects to Hue. Tasmota devices connect through MQTT. And openHAB acts as a bridge between the two technologies, interpreting events from one and possible sending messages to the other.

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Thanks a lot for your response.
I already have some tasmota flashed sockets in place and I have already integrated them into OpenHAB which works a like charm. I really like it :slight_smile:

However, I do not understand properly with regards to the remaining HUE lamps I have in my flat.
So speaking with Tasmota via MQTT is no problem, this I understand. But how can OpenHAB work as bridge when I do not have a HUE bridge (I got always asked for a username when use the Hue Bridge binding).
Maybe simply I not understand what you actually intent to tell me xD

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Do you have the mqtt broker configured in tasmota? Once that is done you can look at tasmota console for a hint on topic names. Chances are you have the wrong topic name in mqtt.fx

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I’m not sure what you mean by this statement. Is it:

  1. You have two smart plugs that have been flashed with Tasmota and have Hue Bridge emulation turned on.
  2. You’ve flashed a a smart plug with Tasmota and are trying to use it as a Hue bridge to control two other Philips Hue devices.

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I assume you mean (1), because (2) is not possible. However, I thought it best to ask in case there’s some confusion as to how Hue emulation works in Tasmota.

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@Olgoetz like @rpwong says this is not possible.

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Ok, then I mixed some things up.
Is it yet possible to integrate Hue lamps into OpenHAB without a Philips bridge?

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Yes with a usb zigbee dongle. Zigbee binding or deconz support these. Read docs on what hardware supported.

I use deconz and Conbee II

Also some other zigbee gateways like tradfri May work if you already had one.

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For future reference, the Hue emulation makes it so that a Philips Hue bridge will detect a Tasmota device as a Hue device. It would be clearer if it was labelled “Philips Hue multi device” in the Tasmota firmware, so your misinterpretation is understandable.

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I did some research.
What I need to do is the following:

  1. Buy a conbee 2
  2. Install deconz on the Raspberry PI
  3. Use this binding https://www.openhab.org/addons/bindings/deconz/

Is this correct?

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That is indeed misleading. Thanks for the clarification.