Emulated_hue and Google Home - not able to use port 80

Configuration
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Just opened a new topic so it is a bit cleaner.

I can’t configure port 80 for the emulated_hue on a PI as that is a privileged port. So I can’t get it to work.

There is a PR https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues/4737 for this topic. but no solution yet.

I was just wondering if somebody here has run into the same issue and if you were able to work around it.

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Looks like some guys on Reddit got it figured out.

Above my head though.

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not that difficult though but it depends how you installed HASS … the post refers to a virtuealenv but as I’m not using that I needed

sudo setcap ‘cap_net_bind_service=+ep’ /usr/bin/python3.4

than configure with port 80 and… now it works !!!

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Does someone know if you can change color of your lights with this? I tried to tell it to change the color of my lifx lights but I get “i can’t do that yet.”

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Is is normal that I can no longer reach the emulated hue hub via:
http://:8300/description.xml
http://:8300/api/pi/lights

once I’ve added to the config yaml?
emulated_hue:
type: google_home
listen_port: 80

I can’t seem to get the Home to find anything from the emulated hue hub.

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You changed the port to 80 so you should try http://:80/description.xml

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Thanks to Discourse for showing me the list of threads and this thread matches what I was about to start, I got Home Assistant working with port 80 exposed.

Although not applicable to Alexa, shouldn’t the note be added for Google Home in Emulated Hue Bridge component?