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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Controlling Philips Hue using OpenHAB in Raspberry Pi

I want to control the Philips Hue Lux color lamps with OpenHAB. So I wonder what are the steps I should do and if I am missing something. In pi@raspberrypi:/opt/openhab/configurations/rules $ sudo vi demo.rules rule "Select scene" when …
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How to determine if I am connected to a Philips hue bridge

I am trying to enable schedule feature in my android app. I want to make sure if I am in home network or outside network as schedule feature only works in home network (ie the network where hue bridges are connected). What is the best way to check…
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How to gradually increase the philips hue light using android apis

From my code I try to schedule an alarm on philips hue and want the light brightness to gradually turn on from 0 to max value. I use following code: PHBridge selectedBridge = PHHueSDK.getInstance().getSelectedBridge(); PHSchedule schedule =…
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Cannot Execute PHP Shell Script from Web Page

I have this file on my server to control my Philips Hue lights. From the shell I run php huecli.php -i IP -k KEY ... it will output the proper result but when I run the following as a PHP Script, it fails (times out) $output = shell_exec('php…
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Using Philips-Hue Obj-C in Swift Project

I am a complete beginner when it comes to coding (except for web) but wanted to start with it. So I bought a philips hue set which I wanted to control via Swift2. I started a online Swift2 course which helped me to get started (still beginner) and…
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Setting up Philips Hue on Windows

I am trying to set Philips Hue on Windows 8.1 (64bit). However, I am not sure why when I browse to the following website it doesn't show anything: https://www.meethue.com/api/nupnp I have even tried the following (as some of their pages resides on…
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Philips Hue External Access API

I have recently purchased a couple of Philips Hue Lights Bulbs. I am looking into developing an app for them and I have it working apart from one thing. I can only find out how to control the bulbs from the local network my phone and bulbs are on,…
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Converting Access VBA to Visual Basic in VisualStudio 2015

I have a fully functional "app" I created in Microsoft Access that I use control my Philips Hue lights. They operate via a RESTful interface using JSON commands and it was pretty simple to create the code in VBA. I wanted to make a standalone…
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nodejs api for philips hue power consumption

Is there a way we can compute the energy/power consumption of the Philips hue? Any nodejs api which I can use to showcase the same. I searched in the internet, I did not find any resource which has information about computing the energy/power…
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Using iOS SDK framework (Philips Hue) in tvOS application - linking issue

I've already developed an iOS App in Swift using the PhilipsHue SDK for iOS. https://github.com/PhilipsHue/PhilipsHueSDK-iOS-OSX Now I started developing a Philips Hue application for the new AppleTV (tvOS). I also used the PhilipsHue SDK for iOS…
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Philips Hue API: Identify the actual scene created by official iOS App

i´m using the node-hue-api to control my hue system. Depending on brightness i automatically call different scenes. This all works fine. But when i change a scene at the iOS app from Philips (because e.g. i added a philips go to my scenes) i have a…
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Philips Hue API: Remove application/username from bridge in order to start over

I'm using the HueSDK_iOS and everything seems to work fine. I have one simple question for which I cannot seem to find a simple answer. I want to test my app's functionality whenever a new user installs it. I cannot find a proper way to…
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Hue Tap API compatibility

I'm considering buying some Philips Hue bulbs along with the Hue Tap to control them. I know there is an Android API from Philips but I would like to know if this API is also able to control the tap and is not only intended to be used with the Hue…
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Hue API can't turning light on over browser command line

I tried to put my Hue Lamp on with the Clip API debug tool (as here explained: http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started ) and all works fine. Now i want to do the same thing over the browser command line and i dont know how…
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How to use Retrofit to parse JSON response that uses the unique id as key?

I am writing an app to control Philips Hue smartlights using their REST API and Square's Retrofit library. The problem is, when I make a call to /lights the response comes back using each light's id property as the key in the json response (rather…
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