Philips Hue sample

Using the Philips Hue sample bundle

The philipshue-lights example bundle in samples/philipshue-lights demonstrates the ability to connect to the Philips Hue bridge and control Philips Hue accessories.

Prerequisites

You will need a working nodecg-io installation. If you have non yet take a look at installation guide. You may need to install this bundle, so take a look at the “Try an included sample”-Guide. It will also tell you how to log in and how to use the GUI.

You also need:

A Philips Hue bridge with some connected accessories

Configure the Philips Hue sample bundle

In NodeCG, create a new Philips Hue service instance.
Enter configuration for hue.

If you want the bridge to be automatically discovered just set discover to true like this:
```
{
    "discover": true
}
```
If you want to provide the IP address manually you can provide them like this:
```
{
    "discover": false,
    "ipAddr": "x.x.x.x"
}
```
After entering it, press the big link button on your bridge and then click save.

Info

After the first time you connect to your bridge it will create a user and an API key which will be saved so that you only need to press the link button when you connect it for the first time.
Set the sample's (philipshue-lights) dependency to be the newly created service instance (of type philipshue).
Check the NodeCG logs:

You should see an error or a success message and the number of lights that the bridge knows of.