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I've been using node-red to trigger communication to a philips hue gateway. I have succeeded in triggering it the way I want. The issue is that I need the action to take place more immediately than my current implementation. The only reason there is a delay is because it needs to establish a connection. I've tried looking online but it doesn't seem that there is a simple way to send this sort of connection descriptor across python scripts. I want to share the descriptor because I could have one script that connects to the gateway and runs an empty while loop. The second script could then just take the connection anytime I run it and do its actions. Apologies if this was answered before but I'm not well versed in python and a lot of the solutions were not making sense. For example, it doesn't seem that redis would be able to solve my issue.

Thanks

glibdud
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As per @hardillb's comment the easiest to control the Phillips Hue is to use one of the existing Node-Red Hue nodes:

If you have special requirements that require use of the Hue Python SDK ... It is possible to use the node-red-contrib-pythonshell node to run a python script that stays alive (using the node's "Continuous" option) and have Node-Red send messages to the script (using the Stdin option). There's some simple examples in the node's test directory: https://github.com/namgk/node-red-contrib-pythonshell/tree/master/test.

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