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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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How do I create a test bulb?

I am trying to test an app I am working on and I want to see how it works with multiple and different bulbs, but I don't have as many lights as I would like. Is there any way to create a "fake" bulb that acts like a normal hue bulb and works with…
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setBridgeToUseWith() error

i have the following problem. Iam trying to set the bridge to use with like this: self.hue.setBridgeToUseWithId(mac, ipAddress: ip) But every time i try this i get this error: username could not be read for bridge id: 001788FFFE709507, so try to…
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Wireless remote control

I found nice code for nodeMCu for controlling my Hue bulb. http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4389 I changed it a bit and added two buttons ON and OFF. If I open serial monitor in sketch everything works ok. But if I try it without serial…
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Change color of the light each second

I'm trying to change color of the light each second, and I am using the following code. private async void button5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { var command = new LightCommand(); command.TurnOn().SetColor("BC8F8F"); …
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Hue Bridge has a light with ID 0 but cannot to affect it via the API

I have a hue bridge 2.0. Out of the box it has 2 lights registered with ids: 0 1 When I attempt to send an API call to light ID 0, I get the following error: The light id '0' is not valid for this Hue Bridge. I am using the node-hue-api to…
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ZigBee Light Link product with custom gateway

Background information The company where I do my internship is developing a smart home cloud solution with it's focus on B2B. We have already connected several LoRa and EnOcean products to our cloud that are working fine. Now our PR department would…
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PHHueSDK lists disconnected bridge when searching for the available bridges for Android

I am working with two Philips Hue bridges with my app. It's all good when both the bridges are UP and running but when I remove one of the bridge by removing the power source, my app still lists both the bridges on doing the bridge search again. I…
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Find Phillips Hue Bridge in Production Web App on Other Network

I am using the node-hue-api package on an Node.js/Express server to work with the Hue API. I've built an admin section of a website that only I can access that I'd like to use to control my Hue lights. This works fine in my dev environment as my…
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Using Philips Hue SDK for swift, getting error "Linker command failed with exit code 1" and others

I'm trying to build a simple application with Swift that can turn on and off my Philips Hue Lights, but after following the official SDK steps, I'm getting some weird errors. The errors I'm getting are: Does anyone that has any experience with the…
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Hue light nomenclature of versioning change (how to interpret versioning numbers from SW Version)

I am trying to understand the way the bridge is displaying the swversion field. With my Lux lamps it used to show "66012040", but after I upgraded the bridge it now shows "5.17.1.12040". I also bought and added an older Hue light that shows version…
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How to get an http json response from the philips hue bridge after a put

I'm trying to get a json response back from the Philips hue after I complete a PUT request. The Philips hue has a build in web server command line, when I send a basic json message like "{"on":True}" using the hue web interface I get a json response…
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Using c++ stack with two threads

I have searched the web, but cannot find a good example of what I am trying to accomplish. Using c++, I am working with a visualization for Kodi (an open source mediacenter application). This visualization sends data as an http client to a Philips…
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using RESTful API (POST,PUT,GET) on NFC tags, or how to run curl on mobile universally

I am looking to place NFC tags around my house in order to switch on lights and other applicances which have RESTful APIs (phillips hue lights). I can achieve this through tasker etc, but they don't work for people who do not have these apps. I…
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running Hue lights without Bridge?

Is possible to run the Phillips Hue lights without the bridge device? I've been trying to search and see if the phillips hue bulbs can work without the hue bridge and just talk to it with a raspberry pi and a . Has anyone tried this yet?
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Arduino adalight exit function after time-out

Im working on a project with the arduino and ledstrip. Im making a combination of Philips Ambilight and Philips hue on the same ledstrip. Im using buttons to switch between Hue and Ambilight, for this im using the adalight code. I can switch from…
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