An Arduino Library for controlling the Philips Hue. This is a work in progress, but the basic functionality is present.
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This library does not currently support this. If you are interested in taking over ownership of this repo, feel free to do so.
Eventually, there will be multiple flavors of the library which will connec to the network in different manners. The first version, which is available now, communicates with a computer over Serial and uses a Python script to post the data to the internet.
Make sure you have the following at the top of your sketch.
import <ArduinoHue.h>
import <SerialHue.h>
To create the SerialHue object,
SerialHue hue("192.168.1.10", &Serial);
void setup(){
}
void loop(){
Serial.begin(9600);
hue.connect("YOUR_DEVICE_ID", "YOUR_USERNAME");
//Everything else.
}
Then, you can change colors and turn lights on or off using the following commands:
hue.turnOn(1);//1 is the Light ID.
hue.turnOff(2); //2 is the Light ID.
//1 is the light, 45000 is the hue, and 255 is the saturation;
//Hue is on the scale of 0 - 65,000 and saturation is on the scale of 0-255
hue.setHueSat(1,45000,255);
For the Arduino to communicate with the Hue Lights, you will need to run the SerialBridge.py python script on your computer. In that file, you will need to update the device id on line 5 to the device id of your Arduino (for instance COM5 on Windows or /dev/tty.usbmodemfd131 on a Mac).
To use this script you will need the pySerial module (http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/) and the Requests module (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/install.html#install).