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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Motion sensor has attributes that seem to be invalid

I am trying to figure out a problem with my Philips Hue Motion sensors. I have a ZigBee coordinator up and running, I have successfully joined the Motion Sensor to it and I have all Clusters and Attributes discovered. However, all the sensor values…
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Recurring lights Auto-off after 'x' minutes

I've been looking for a feature that will automatically turn the lights off after 'x' minutes if they have been on. Basically if someone forgets to turn the light off, I want it to turn off after some time interval. Does something like this exist…
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Deserializing JSON in .net with incremental integer

I have an some JSON from my Philips hue bulbs. It looks like this. { "1": { "state": { "on": false, "bri": 75, "hue": 60309, "sat": 192, "effect": "none", "xy": [ 0.5002, 0.2691 ], …
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Anyone experiencing Error code -46 on Java SDK 1.20

Latest Java SDK (1.20) seems to throw NoSuchMethodError when trying to autheticate with the accesspoint using onAuthenticationRequired() ; Once the exception is thrown then all subsequent attempt to connect to the bridge will result in " Error -…
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WebClient does not contain the definition for SendCommandAsync()

I'm trying to change the light color according to the temperature. I can obtain the temperature value, but I can't change the color basing on its value. I am using this code. private async void button6_Click_1(object sender, EventArgs e) { …
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cURL connection refused

I'm trying to simply read the Philips Hue lights information from my home with the following code: $fp = fopen(dirname(__FILE__).'/errorlog.txt', 'a'); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt_array($ch, array( CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1, …
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Add variable to URL in python for Hue lights

I know you can shorten down the length of this python api call to hue using a variable but I cant figure out the format or the proper term to find the answer in stackoverflow. I would like to learn how to hide the auth token to practice better…
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Use Amazon Alexa to switch on Hue Light and switch off Wemo plug simultaneously

I have a Philips Hue light dimmable bulb for a night light and a regular floor lamp connected to a Belkin Mini WeMo smart plug. I have added both as devices in the Alexa app and can control them individually, or together as part of a group. But I…
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Phillips Hue Connection Refused

I have had a working program to control my Hue lights for a while, and have recently transferred to a new PC. I went to get it setup, and I received a few errors that I can't work out the reason why they are happening, as the code worked perfectly…
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Should a REST endpoint for PUT be GETable?

I am starting to learn REST (for my own project), and at the same time experimenting with Philips Hue API. I have discovered a strange IMO effect: to switch a light on, I need to PUT {"on": true} to /api//lights/6/state. The light status can be…
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Configuring the Hue SDK in Xcode

I'm trying to use the Hue SDK for iOS (iOS deployment target: 9.3) in swift. I've downloaded the source from github and followed the instructions.. Created a new iOS application in Xcode (Version 7.3.1) Dragged the framework (HueSDK_iOS.framework)…
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Cross Domain AJAX (Philips Hue Lights)

I am building a web application that uses voice recognition & text-to-speech that performs actions/displays a wide variety of data through an HTML page (built with JS (jQuery for AJAX)/HTML/CSS.) This web application is being hosted on HTTPS server…
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Setting owner for light scene in Hue-API

I have a question for all the developers who are working with the Philips Hue-API. So, I want to create some scenes for two Android-Devices I use with my Philips-Hue lights. The problem is: if I do create them with the Rest-API I cannot find a way…
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Combine Philips Hue, HomeKit and Music (iTunes or Spotify)

First time using HomeKit here. I have Philips Hue and using Siri (HomeKit) I activate different scenes/ambients with my voice, which is really cool. I'd like to go one step further... In WWDC I see that regarding HomeKit we can use termostats, fans,…
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HUE API JavaScript HTTP PUT Request returning "net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE"

GET requests work fine. PUT requests from the API Debug tool work fine. PUT and POST, no matter the data or API url that is used, return the following error: example: OPTIONS…