Questions tagged [philips-hue]

Philips Hue is a personal wireless lighting system using lightbulbs with multi-colored LEDs.

The Philips hue lightbulbs can be controlled directly via ZigBee Light Link or via the SmartBridge provided with the hue Starter Kit, which supplies a RESTful web-interface.

Philips has launched an official Hue website:

The documentation:

Various APIs are available:

There is an official hue Developers forum:

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Phillips Hue REST API transition time for schedule POST not working

I am communicating with the my Phillips Hue REST API. I am trying to post a schedule with a transition time. This is ultimately what the JSON looks like before it's sent to the…
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Ip address changing to an integer

I am making a script that will ping an ip address using the subprocess module. But when I try to run it, it says: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\YUZi5\OneDrive\Desktop\huetest.py", line 99, in subprocess.run("ping",…
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How to set scenes in the new Philips HUE API node-hue-api v.3

can anyone give a description on how to set a specific scene to a specific lamp in the new node-hue-api v.3? For example the Scene ID would be id="shshshshsh" and the Group ID group="8" Thanks
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PhilipsHue XY Bri to RGB (without Philips Hue SDK)

I have managed to find code to convert RGB to XY. Can't make it work the other way around. I have looked through Philips Hue SDK https://github.com/johnciech/PhilipsHueSDK/blob/master/ApplicationDesignNotes/RGB%20to%20xy%20Color%20conversion.md I…
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Does the Philips Hue Entertainment streaming API support remote access?

I haven't found any mention of remote access yet in the Entertainment streaming API docs. The 'normal' (older) RESTful Hue API does have a remote API. Does the Entertainment streaming API support remote connections too?
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Error getting token from philips hue remote API

I'm following the remote api docs (https://developers.meethue.com/develop/hue-api/remote-authentication/), but i'm getting a server error when requesting the token via digest authentication. I'm building the request in python (also tried php and…
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Packet Manager on Hue bridge

I have successfully jailbreaked my Hue Bridge 2.1 and now have Root Access over SSH to it. But I don't know how I can Install a Packet Manager (like opkg) on it. It looks like wget is installed, but nothing else really. Also SCP works. I have tried…
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How to send Philips Hue activity data to a Google Sheet

Is there an easy way to have my Philips Hue export all its activity as a log to a Google Sheet? I looked on ifttt but all I could see were triggers for activating Hue lights based on certain criteria. Is there any easy way to get bulb on/off times…
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Is it possible to make a raspberry pi look like a hue bulb to a hue hub

As the title says I'm looking to have my phillips hue hub recognize my raspberry pi as a hue light bulb. From there I want to read the input to change some led light strips I have attached to it.
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Is there a remote API Authentication wrapper library for Philips Hue (in JavaScript/Node.js)?

I'd like to control a light-bulb from outside my home network (ideally from an AWS Lambda function). I understand that doing this is possible, as per this page (authentication required). I have defined my app and I have my app's ID, ClientID,…
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Hue SDK Groups ios App Integration - Swift 4 Xcode 9

So I am developing an app integrating Philips Hue smart lights. I am using Hue SDK in swift 4. I want to show available groups in a Table View just like the bridge, and then allow the selection of a group to apply light state changes to. I cant find…
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How to get array in json using java?

Please help me how to get the value of xy i have tried the code below but its not working. Is my code below wrong? Please help me. Thanks in advance Json example below {"name":"room…
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can't send PUT to Philips Hue (same origin policy)

I'm trying to send a PUT-request to a Philips Hue bridge, so I can change the current state in which the lamp is. I do this from a webserver on my PC. With CORS I already managed to send GET and POST- request, but if I send a PUT I get an error that…
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jQuery - sending POST to localhost network app (Hue Emulator)

I am trying to send a HTTP POST with JSON via jQuery to a local network app (Hue Emulator: http://steveyo.github.io/Hue-Emulator/) with this code: $.post("http://localhost/api/newdeveloper/lights/6/state", "{\"on\": false}", function (data,…
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Get specific JSON feature based on a variable string comparsion

I work with two Bluetooth beacons and two Philips Hue lights. I have a JSON file which contains the beacon UUID for each region and the light IDs: { "features": [ { "iot_identifier" : "1", "iot_beacon_uuid" :…
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