Summary: What are the consequences of changing the IoX HTTP port to something other than 8080?

Background: I have a renewed interest in trying to get a brilliant smart switch connected to the EISY via the Hue Emulator. I recall that the brilliant switch looks for a hue hub on port 8080, which creates some sort of conflict if the emulator port is the same as IoX. If I change IoX port to 808X and the hue emulator to 8080, what are the unintended consequences? Will the finder not be able to connect? Will the EISY-UI not work? Will I brick my system?

Unless the device is at the same IP address, the port address being the same, shouldn't matter.

5 minutes ago, larryllix said:

Unless the device is at the same IP address, the port address being the same, shouldn't matter.

Well it sounds like he wants to run a Hue emulator on the eisy (there is a plugin called Hue Emulator). So access to the eisy and the Hue emulator would both be at the same IP address.

If the IoX port could be changed to something else than 8080 then this could be a solution, but the ports number isn't currently editable in Configuration. So that's a good question.

Yes, hue emulator has same IP adress as EISY. It just seems likely in my mind that changing the port number will break something. I fear that my experimenting with 20 different node servers and separate hubs for hue, casetta, yolink, harmony, and others, and integration with alexa and google nest, I have this sytem that breaks any time I make a change.