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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Philips Hue API CURL PUT request returning bizarre error

So I'm writing a nice little web app that lets me control my various lighting systems from anywhere and it's going great. Just hit a bit of a snag with the Philips Hue API. I can make a PUT request fine, and I am getting plenty of data back, but am…
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Are multiple (PUTs) need for Turning on/off multiple lights using lights API?

I am using the following script: https://github.com/callil/SparkHue/blob/master/sparkhue.ino This is working great besides the fact that it only lets me control that one light with id 3. What is I have multiple light ID's I want to turn on / off…
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Find the bridge IP address for Philips Hue

I used the example from the following link Nuget for HueApi static void Main(string[] args) { IBridgeLocator locator = new SSDPBridgeLocator(); //For Windows 8 and .NET45 projects you can use the SSDPBridgeLocator which actually scans your…
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Philips Hue Bridge cannot connect to server desktop application

I am trying to connect my Desktop to the PHILIPS Hue light server using java. When the code runs, it will flow into the Controller.java. When that happens, the FindBridges method in Controller.java runs. This is where the error occurs. In debugging,…
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Changing Philips Hue Brightness with a UISlider Objective C

I am building an app that controls three philips hue RGB LED bulbs. I want to be able to change the brightness using the UISlider. Currently I have a UISlider that calls a method upon each change, however, this method far exceeds the philips hue…
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How to connect to hue with Swift?

I'm trying philips hue with Swift. I want to turn on the light using HTTP request. I'm using Net for HTTPRequest https://github.com/nghialv/Net let net = Net() let params = ["on":true] let puturl = "http://[IP…
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Trying to use HUE api but getting php syntax error

I am currently trying to use the https://github.com/muesli/huephp to control my lights through PHP but I am running into a syntax problem. Here is the line in huecli.php that I am getting a syntax error on where [... Here is the actual error: "Parse…
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upnp discovery of Philips hue from openWRT router

I am getting response from hue when I send the following packet from my PC. sprintf(wrbuf,"%s","M-SEARCH* HTTP/1.0\r\n HOST: 239.255.255.250:1900\r\n MAN: \"ssdp:discover\"\r\n MX: 4\r\n ST:…
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Philips Hue: how to create group for user

I try to use Philips Hue API to create groups for each user. The document here: Philips Hue API As in this document states: 2.2. Create group This method is not supported in the 1.0 version of the API. It is scheduled for release in the next…
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How conenct Philips Hue, CC2531 Zigbee USB Dongle and Java

I have USB Zigbee dongle and Philips Hue bulbs. I want use my USB dongle like coordinator or use like Living Color Remote. What I need to do? I google my problem several hours, but I don't have a lot of information about it. Also I want to control…
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Arduino + phillips hue

I have been struggling with this for hours. Was able to get the hue to change light color and turn off using curl (curl -v -X PUT -d '{"on":true, "bri":254}' http://192.168.x.x/api/newdeveloper/lights/3/state) and the browser interface, but when I…
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AngularJS Philips Hue Project

I started working on a little AngularJS - Philips Hue project and I'm kinda stuck... I'm fairly new to AngularJS... but here goes. What I want to do is to list the lamps I have, the status of the lamps and a toggler to switch them. I decided to…
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Philips Hue command limitation

First of all I'm developing my own C# library for controlling Philips Hue, which means I'm not using the official SDK. (I'm guessing that the SDK will make sure you won't have any problems) I'm a little confused about the limitation in the Core…
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Hue API and php turn on/off lights

I am not an expert in php but I can do the basics so I put together a php script, which should turn on or off my hue light in the kitchen, when I run a certain URL i.e. when I enter and when I leave the kitchen: $bulb = $_GET['bulb']; $status =…
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Having problems with parsing post data in node

This is really bugging me. I have a node server that receives post data, parses it, and then sends it back out as part of a json string. But for some reason it's not working. The incoming post data is formatted: rgb=rgb(xxx%2Cxxx%2Cxxx) I parse it…
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