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BradyBrenot / huestacean

Philips Hue control app for desktop with screen syncing. C++ with Qt Quick GUI.
http://huestacean.com
Apache License 2.0
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Is there anyway to get Huestacean to use Non Entertainment areas/groups? #150

Open Etrit1 opened 3 years ago

Etrit1 commented 3 years ago

I ask because I'm putting non Hue Zigbee bulbs on my Hue Bridge and Phillips of course won't any non Hue bulbs work with their Entertainment group. :-(

I've found Lightbeat which works pretty good for just music, but, it doesn't do screen stuff.

There is actually a pretty decent amount of people out there looking for easy ways to get Non Hue Zigbee bulbs to sync with music and Screen.

There ARE some alternatives for Screen Sync for Windows and maybe Mac but.... not Linux. I'm running an old pc laptop as a entertainment center and Windows just runs to slow to even dream of doing both screen and music sync. It can barely handle music alone. But, it's GREAT with Linux of course.... so.....

pls, if it's easy, make it so Huestacean will work with non Hue Zigbee bulbs that are not in entertainment zones.

I believe it probably is pretty easy if you are either using the Hue API or the Hue SDK. But, if you're using the Hue Entertainment API well then ugh, its totally locked to Hue bulbs until Phillips decides to open the api to devs.