Philips Hue Control Script

[christiand]

Sounds interesting. Will the plugin also be compatible withe homeseer 3?

[bartbakels]

Christian,

This week I started again working on this application. communication with the HUes is setup, however this information needs to be send to homeseer and viceversa. For this i will use the homeseer dll interface. I have done this before for use in a labview application that connects several homemade DAQs to homeseer and this works quite reliable.

So it will take some time before I can release a prebeta for testing. first version will not be more than an control and readout of hue statusses. I dont think i will migrate to homeseer 3. Not sure yet.

regards

Bart

[vanisher]

Hi Bart,

Any updates on the HS3 adventure yet?

[bartbakels]

hi,

Not sure yet, im needing several plugins that are not yet ported, such as plugwise, fritz eand visonic.

regarding the hue app, 1 month ago i did some succesfull testing with subroutines but no further development at the moment. to busy at work and at home (puppy time )

At this moment i still use the scripts that I made to controll my hues. They can be found on this domoticaforum

Regards

Bart Bakels

[christiand]

The jon00 philips hue script is ported to Homeseer 3 and I have it working under de latestest homeseer 3 betas.

[bartbakels]

hi,

Im also experimenting with HS3, but cannot get Jon00`s application to work, probably a NET issue. if time permits me i will continue my Labview implementation probably for HS3.

regards

bart

[vanisher]

What's your problem with jon00 solution? I had a few myself but now it's working.

[Willem4ever]

What kind of control are we after, simple on/off brightness 0-255 / Simple predefined colours - or do we want all the advanced features of the iPhone/iPad app. I think the first should be easy to implement the latter would be difficult.

[christiand]

Jon00 scripts still works. To switch on/off lights you have to use the script with commands in scenes. The script does create a device for each light bulb, but its a status only device. It would be nice if the script created on/off devices at least.

[Willem4ever]

I have at the moment a very basic HS3 plugin which can switch hue's on/off and dim and set hue/saturation/brightness or colour temperature / brightness for the selected hue.

No fancy GUI to set colours but just simple sliders. It was hacked together in a couple of hours, so there is still a lot do !

[Willem4ever]

Here are some screenshots for the upcoming HUE HS3 plugin ….

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1) It will automatically detect the lights and add then to homeseer
2) Support for multiple bridges (in my case there is a Philips HUE bridge and a Dresden Electronics) - each bridge can have their own api-key
3) Virtually unlimited custom presets (you can build a colour with your iPhone/iPad app and 'copy' to Homeseer
4) Pre-defined presets - 5 at the moment but easy to expand.

Todo

1) configurable bridges and username (api-key)
2) Event support with selectable preset.

Requires .NET 4.5 and JSON.NET

[raymonvdm]

Plugin looks very nice, I hope Santa is sweet and gives me one

[Willem4ever]

Yeah, following the Homeseer tradition with plenty of bugs hahaha - as soon as the configuration part is ready an alpha version will be released.

[bartbakels]

Hi willem,

look great.

I stalled my development due to API compatibility of HS3 with labview (NET issue) and i use jon00 app. But I have some issues (speed) with jon00 app. I still want to control the device directly from the device and no scripting or events needed. So kep up the great work willem.

thanks

[Willem4ever]

I added some more functionality, you can now set a device using a preset ...

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