I am a total newbie with python. i have python27 installed and have tried various ways to talk to the hues with no luck. i would like to try this out. how do i install and run it? great work BTW

Hi,

toggle method did't work fine (on my installation).

I did this change, and now works fine:

158 #if self.state["on"]:
if self.state and self.state.get('state', None) and self.state["state"].get("on", None):
self.off()

( self.state is a dict. There's the key 'state', and there you can find the 'on' value )

In [46]: light.state
Out[46]:
{
u'modelid': u'...',
(...)
u'state': {u'alert': u'none',
u'bri': 220,
u'colormode': u'xy',
u'ct': 500,
u'effect': u'none',
u'hue': 47103,
u'on': False,
u'reachable': True,
u'sat': 254,
u'xy': [0.2693, 0.2419]},
(...)
}

Hey, I got my Hue today and I simply love the clean implementation of this client. It's great, but it's missing group support like phue does. I'm not a python genius and I haven't been able to convert the archaic httplib requests to the new requests lib. Care to help out?

Thanks!
Dennis

Please support Python 3

What needs changing is

-    client_identifier = hashlib.md5("ph-%s" % socket.getfqdn()).hexdigest()
+    client_identifier = hashlib.md5(("ph-%s" % socket.getfqdn()).encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()

and

-        print red, green, blue
+        print('%s %s %s' % (red, green, blue))

Furthermore, I get

INFO:urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): 192.168.1.9
DEBUG:urllib3.connectionpool:"GET /api/0cc11252a92919daa1dc118aeb84d6e9 HTTP/1.1" 200 None
DEBUG:hue:<Response [200]>
DEBUG:hue:b'[{"error":{"type":1,"address":"/","description":"unauthorized user"}}]'

How can I fix that?

Just a suggestion to help complete the python hue interface:

Add methods to set the color temperature, ct, and cct

def ct(self, ct):

set color temp in mired scale

return self.set_state({"ct": ct})

def cct(self, cct):

set color temp in degrees kelvin

return self.ct(1000000 / cct)

I appreciate your work on the python hue interface.

I noticed that your off() method does not work (at least for my gateway).

This updated method fixes the problem:

def off(self):
return self.set_state({"on": False})

Hi Issac,

I work for Philips Hue Developer Support. In case you were not aware, in a few months time we will be changing the way usernames are created on the bridge (for security reasons). Custom whitelist usernames will no longer be allowed and the bridge randomly generated username must be used instead. Please see below link for more information:
http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/important-whitelist-changes

Am not sure if you are still actively maintaining this library but if so it looks like it may affect you also, as you appear to be passing in the username when creating (i.e. POSTing) a new username on the bridge (hue.py line 74). This should be removed and the randomly generated bridge username should be retrieved from the bridge response. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks
Steve