Anyone using a Philips Hue?

[JGrana]

I have been hacking (truly hacking, lots of bits and pieces) an addon that will control Philips Hue lights/groups and scenes.

I have a version running reasonably well on an AX88U Pro. It started as a way to make one of my Hue bulbs change colors based on the results of spdmerlin. Green for speeds over 100 Mbit/sec, Yellow for 20-99 and Red for less than 20.
The base code was from Harald van der Laan on github. It was based on bash so I converted it to /bin/sh, added some "addon style" install structure - then did some major changes.

My version supports "scenes", a way to authenticate the Hue Bridge during install, better display of lights and groups and scenes and a way to convert a color to it's xy coordinates.

I am now tweaking it so you can change the actual color of the light by just specifying a color (no xy stuff).

If there is any interest, I will post the install (stolen shamelessly from @Jack Yaz ) and an early version.

Now, the tough part - I am going OOT next Tuesday. Away From Keyboard as they say. ;-)
There are no doubt a few test cases that escaped me. I will address them - in a few weeks...

If there is interest, let me know.

BTW, as an example of usage:

Merlinhue Version 0.1.0

Usage:            merlinhue <command> | <light|group|scene> <number|name> <action> <value> [<value>]
==========================================================================
power usage            :  merlinhue light|group n state <on|off>
saturation             :  merlinhue light|group n sat <0-255>
brightness             :  merlinhue light|group n bri <0-255>
hue                    :  merlinhue light|group n hue <0-65535>
xy gamut               :  merlinhue light|group n xy <0.0-1.0> <0.0-1.0>
ct color temp          :  merlinhue light|group n ct <153-500>
color cycle            :  merlinhue light|group n cycle <0-65535> <0-65535>
scene                  :  merlinhue scene scenename group

show lights/groups     :  merlinhue show
colors - list colors   :  merlinhue colors
convert - color to xy  :  merlinhue convert <color>
help (this screen)     :  merlinhue help
install                :  merlinhue install
uninstall              :  merlinhue install
==========================================================================

I am re-working the power usage to allow an extra argument after "on". You would do

$ merlinhue light 5 state on Red

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Please post it! We will add this to the software catalog! AWESOME!!

 

[Kingp1n]

Interesting indeed.....looking forward to it!

 

[amplatfus]

Thank you. I am interested.

 

[XIII]

How do you find out which number belongs to which bulb?

(I use many Hue bulbs)

 

[MXThaurus]

So interested, i have many hue lights. Can't wait

 

[BreakingDad]

How about a flashing red living room bulb when there is a new Merlin update? The wife will just love that.

I'm all in and all hued up.

 

[JGrana]

How do you find out which number belongs to which bulb?

(I use many Hue bulbs)

There is a command called "show". It can show you all your lights, groups and scenes

 

[JGrana]

How about a flashing red living room bulb when there is a new Merlin update? The wife will just love that.

I'm all in and all hued up.

Flashing a light (and color) should be pretty easy. Something like

while true
do
mhue light 3 state on red
sleep 1
mhue light 3 state off
done

I started this project to notify of a few things going on in my network.
One was to monitor spdmerlin speed test results. Based on the download speed, I have a light that is either green (good speed), yellow (ok, but not great) and red (slooow).
I also have a script that monitors a T-Mobile 5G gateway. I found that when it slows down, rebooting it brings it back to reasonable speed. But the reboot takes minutes.
So, I turn on another light to show its rebooting then turn it off when its back online.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Flashing a light (and color) should be pretty easy. Something like

while true
do
mhue light 3 state on red
sleep 1
mhue light 3 state off
done

Sounds like a great use-csse for the red light district in Amsterdam!

 

[JGrana]

Sounds like a great use-csse for the red light district in Amsterdam!

Ideal. I volunteer to go there personally and set it up.

 

[JGrana]

Its now live.
Have fun!

 

[dave14305]

Its now live.
Have fun!

Thank Hue.

 

[Clark Griswald]

Sounds like a great use-csse for the red light district in Amsterdam!

Casa Griswald is Hue'd on the exterior only (house and garden/walkway).
At my age, I'm more reclined to visit "The Green Light District", strictly for medicinal purposes only I assure you