Can't connect to Firestore Emulator

[matthew-hackett]

I have the firestore emulator running on Port 8080, but I cannot connect to it using any method I try with FireO. No errors are being thrown, but the emulator is not updating either.

import os

# I've tried variations on this
# I have also tried using environment variables at startup (using PyCharm IDE run configuration) rather than runtime
os.environ["FIRESTORE_EMULATOR_HOST"] = "localhost:8080"
os.environ["GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT"] = "demo-project"
os.environ["FIRESTORE_PROJECT_ID"] = "demo-project"

import fireo
from google.cloud import firestore

# I have also tried this with just fireo.connection() but it gives me a terminal error looking core json credentials.
client = firestore.Client()
fireo.connection(client=client)

# Import models
# Create models
# Save models

I can't find any documentation on connecting to the emulator, but from some discussions it seems like people have done it before.