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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External interface to enable/disable the sync #40

Closed joostwestra closed 5 years ago

joostwestra commented 6 years ago

Maybe a nice enhancement: To have an externally accessible interface to enable or disable the sync from external sources. Think of use cases such as Kodi/XBMC to only run the sync when a movie starts. Or to allow the toggle from a domotica system. (OpenHab, domoticz etc.)

Possible interfaces: MQTT Http call

If you want help with this, let me know.

gjniewenhuijse commented 6 years ago

+1 or migrate with the kodi plugin: https://github.com/mpolednik/script.kodi.hue.ambilight

BradyBrenot commented 6 years ago

Yeah if you can figure out how to / and implement this, it'd be a good help. I haven't really been thinking about CLI or server control yet, and the design's pretty straightforwardly attached to the QtQuick GUI...

BradyBrenot commented 6 years ago

I'd probably just go straight HTTP / JSON. It's going to mostly be doing this over the LAN and latency, throughput, CPU use shouldn't be too concerning.

joostwestra commented 6 years ago

Indeed latency and performance are not any issue at all I expect. HTTP / JSON would be fine I guess. Not to difficult to integrate with third parties.

flatlined commented 6 years ago

Really hoping control via command line parameters is an option in the future. From there pretty much any program that allows passing stuff through a terminal should be viable for basic control.

BradyBrenot commented 6 years ago

Relates to #69 ; if that's accomplished, adding additional frontends should be feasible. A CLI frontend is probably the only one I'd do myself though.

BradyBrenot commented 5 years ago

128 - CLI

127 - HTTP

80 split Huestacean up to make it easier to have different main functions / start it without a GUI.

122 uses QtRO to link the "Backend" from the "Frontend", letting me control Huestacean remotely and also opening the possibility of controlling local or remote instances from a CLI executable with ease.