Can Emulated Hue Bridge make an existing Hue switch control non-Hue devices

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My use-case is that I have several TPLink smart plugs that I use to control garden lighting, and whilst the existing Alexa skills make voice control work just fine, plus we have the Kasa app onm all our phones, we all like physical switches - ie a switch by the back door that turns on the garden lights, that you can just hit on the way out of the door!

Given that Hue Wifi Switches are excellent, is it possible somehow using the emulated hue bridge to have a Hue switch control TPLink smart plugs, which HA controls directly with no problem.

Failing that, can anyone suggest another method of using a battery driven Wifi switch to control TPLink Smart Plugs?

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Not with emulated_hue, but you can certainly use homeassistant to take the button press from one device and use that to activate another.

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Even if that device is a hue Switch? - ie it communicates its button press to the Hue Hub via Zigbee (I think) - are you saying that button press gets surfaced somehow on Home Assistant too?

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never mind - just found this post https://www.hackster.io/robin-cole/hijack-a-hue-remote-to-control-anything-with-home-assistant-5239a4

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Emulated_hue has nothing to do with hue.

What emulated_hue does is make an Alexa device think that your homeassistant devices are hue lights, so that it can control them.