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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Can any one tell API to add bulb Phillips Hue Bridges?

I have worked on Phillips iOS SDK, now i want to use phillips APIs , Is there any API to add bulb to hue bridge? Thanks
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How to get around CORS with Philips Hue Hub

I have the newly released Philips Hue bridge and I'm trying to control it from my browser by sending JSON requests to it. I am using a third party 'helper' api just to make things a little easier - but it's irrelevant which one because underneath it…
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Where do I put .js files in Max/MSP?

Where do I put .js files in Max? I am currently using help from this thread on the Cycling forum to link Philips Hue lighting with Max 7. https://cycling74.com/forums/topic/controlling-philips-hue-using-jython-and-phue/ and currently trying to…
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Controlling light using midi inputs

I currently am using Max/MSP to create an interactive system between lights and sound. I am using Philips hue lighting which I have hooked up to Max/MSP and now I am wanting to trigger an increase in brightness/saturation on the input of a note from…
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Samsung Smart TV App to use HUE as Ambilight

I am trying to accomplish this task: Running an app on a Samsung Smart TV (in background, kind of) This app should check the screen content in an interval and calculate the main color of screen content or the main colors of each border (lets say…
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Phillips HUE SDK in Swift

I am very new to Swift! I do have some experience with Objective-C (although it has been around two years since i've really written anything in it). I am trying to use the Phillips HUE SDK with Swift, and am having some trouble! I am trying to…
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Blinking my philips hue lights

Just started writing my hue apps and so far the basics look good, except that lack of javadocs for some APIs makes life a little harder. So my question is how can I make the light have a blinking effect? I tried doing something like this //pseudo…
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Philips Hue API: Turn on lights at fix time

I'm programming on HUE API.I want to schedule for a light turn on at one time and automatically turn off at another time. As this link is for reference (you must login before see this page). HUE API Schedules API As I research, maybe noway for me to…
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Phillips hue Local network

I want to send signals to a Phillips Hue Bulb from an Arduino Ethernet, but using only a local network. This means I plan to have a router with an Ethernet connection to both the Arduino and the Hue's bridge, but the router has no connection to the…
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How do I send json to Philips-Hue from Mac Terminal

Although the iOS SDK for Philips Hue is perfectly simple to use, the world of json is new to me. Can I (and how do I) send json to the Hue bridge directly from a mac Terminal?
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Changing color's tone using python

I'm looking for a way to change a color's tone, knowing it's RGB composition, then replace all instances of the old RGB with the obtained RGB. For example, I'd like red to become purple, light red, light purple, etc... It can be done in photoshop by…
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Trust anchor for certification path not found Hue Certificate

I would like to ask you something related with Philips Hue Smart Lamps integration with Kotlin. I am working with Hue API v2 and after follow all the steps I was able to connect my mobile with Hue bridge and send orders to lights without problems,…
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How to fix Philips Hue API v2 404 Not Found Error

Today, I wanted to try out the Philips Hue v2 CLIP API. I managed to fetch the credentials, but am stuck when I try to fetch the devices, as I'm getting a 404 Error. Here is a Screenshot of the CLIP API Debugger: And here is one of my browser:
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Simplest way to light up using Homekit with watchOS

I'm japanese student and I'm newbie of programing swift. Now, I'm trying to light up the Hue lightbulb using Homekit. As a test, I tried to check whether the system detects the home and accessories. Though, results are only zero and nil. To solve…
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How to convert rgb to hue color format?

im working with the phue library and want to change the color with b.set_group(group, "hue", color) I have read, that color is a number between 0 and 65535. I want to input a rgb number, so i will need to convert it first. May someone got a idea…