This is a very simple Philips Hue client written in Python. It is not significant that it's written in Python, but to the best of my knowledge the only other maintained command line Hue client is written in Node. So now there's one written in Python.

You should be able to install this using setuptools, assuming that you have setuptools installed.

pip install setuptools

python setup.py install

This will install a script called hue-client somewhere on your path. You can now start using hue-client!

This client supports basic operations right now. Adding more operations is not too difficult, so things will get added as I have time and attention. Pull requests welcome.

Start by finding your Hue bridge IP. If you know it, great. If you don't, hue-client search.

Now, register a new user on the bridge so that the client is authorized to control your lights. Run hue-client register <bridge IP>, and then press the button on your Hue bridge. If all goes well, a configuration file will be written to ~/.hue-client.ini.

The INI file name and location can be customized by calling hue-client with the option --config <path to config>. This is useful for using this client in a batch processing mode; just copy the config to somewhere the batch script can find it, and add --config <path to config> to the commands it runs.

You can peruse the help yourself with hue-client --help and then calling --help on the various sub-commands. Of particular interest is hue-client lights --help.