Hue Lights - Free Philips Hue Plugin

[ckeyes888]

Not really, just thinking it might be cool to have the lights do the color dance to
whatever audio was playing in iTunes/announcements etc.

I wrote the app author about having it use audio files instead of the mic input
and it seems their working on having it work with AirPlay.

Thanks,

Carl

[keifer1]

I've been a beta from the start and it great fun (Hue Disco). Been letting him get his plugin together but wanted same stuff in indigo. One thing i noticed but never reported in your plugin was when having multiple lights in hue disco running, like 7 to 9 your plugin stops recording light changes I'm guessing the zigby hub overloaded. Hue Disco probably is one of the reasons I have found some bugs in your plugin, Hue Disco sure puts the system to the test.

Thank you for all your support and work.

[nsheldon]

One thing i noticed but never reported in your plugin was when having multiple lights in hue disco running, like 7 to 9 your plugin stops recording light changes I'm guessing the zigby hub overloaded. Hue Disco probably is one of the reasons I have found some bugs in your plugin, Hue Disco sure puts the system to the test.

Yes, that doesn't surprise me. The Hue hub has a tiered rate limiting system for all controlling devices (including all connected iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Indigo). Starting around 38 requests per second, the hub begins limiting the speed at which requests are handled (I got my information from this source). So that would probably explain the behavior you're seeing. There doesn't seem to be much that I can do with the plugin to work around that limitation at this point, other than suggest listening to slower music when using Hue Disco.

[ckeyes888]

Might there be a way to assign the hub a static IP?

Thanks,

Carl

[nsheldon]

Yes. You can either set your router to always assign the same IP (that's what I did) or you can configure the Hie hub to use a static IP using the Hue app (touch the center tab at the bottom of the app interface then the gear icon at the top left then your bridge name).

[ckeyes888]

Doh...thanks. For some reason the hub wasn't listed in my router and I didn't realize it could be set to manual in the app.

Carl

[dillwishlist]

Not sure if I'm posting this in the right place (I have a really good excuse if I'm not though) but Philips finally released an official API for the HUE bulbs!

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/03/11/phi ... ng-system/

Alexander

[jay (support)]

@dillwishlist: moved the post to Nathan's plugin thread since it's most likely he'd be the one that cares the most...

[nsheldon]

Cool! Thanks for the heads-up! I quickly looked over their published API and it (somewhat shockingly) appears that the Hue Lights plugin already conforms to Philips' communication specifications, so it doesn't look like any updates will be needed (unless bugs are discovered, of course). The plugin doesn't support the Hue hub's group or schedule API features, but it's better that those are handled through Indigo mechanisms anyway to avoid conflicting schedules and device groups. I don't think it's often that software, like the Hue Lights plugin, developed around reverse-engineered protocols, is validated after-the-fact by the protocol creators. +10 to Philips!

[ckeyes888]

...and a big +10 to you Nathan for an already excellent plugin.

Carl

[nsheldon]

Version 0.10.0 Posted

See the first post in this thread for download link.

Changes since version 0.9.11
0.10.0

• Added a Hue Bulb Attribute Controller virtual dimmer device which can be created to control a specific attribute (hue, saturation, RGB levels, or color temperature) of an existing Hue Bulb device.
• Added an "Effect" action which allows you to specify an effect to be turned on for a Hue bulb (requires latest firmware on the Hue hub. Currently, only the Color Loop effect is supported by the Hue hub and bulbs).
• Changed light control methods so that if the current light brightness is below 6% and the requested action is to turn off the bulb, set the ramp rate to 0 regardless of the default or specified ramp rate (transition time) because going from a brightness of 6% or lower to an off state with a dimming rate isn't noticeable.

[nsheldon]

Version 0.10.1 Posted

See the first post in this thread for download link.

Changes since version 0.10.0
0.10.1

• Updated code to recognize the "LWB003" LivingWhites model ID.
• Fixed debugging code so it won't throw ASCII encoding errors when the plugin is installed on versions of Indigo prior to 5.1.7 (and prior to 6.0 beta 2).

[nsheldon]

Version 0.10.2 Posted

See the first post in this thread for download link.

Changes since version 0.10.1
0.10.2

• Added more code to work better with LivingWhites devices.

[nsheldon]

Hue Lights is now out of beta. Final release version 1.0 is now available for download (see original post for link).

[nsheldon]

Version 1.0.1 Posted

• Added: optional automatic version checking (enabled by default) and email notification (configurable in the plugin configuration window).