While searching for other ways to control a set of Philips Hue lights, I found fhem(a GPL’d perl server for house automation). With fhem I can have a huge amount of flexibility on automation rules and combination of devices working together; but for now I’m interested in a quick way to control the lights from outside of my house without using a 3rd party service.
For the Raspberry Pi OS, I went with Raspbian.
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