search

ZiiS / HueWidgets

Android App providing fast control of Philips Hue Lighting.
GNU General Public License v3.0
6 stars 0 forks source link

Feature request: manual setup of bridge / IP #1

Open flipsa opened 5 years ago

flipsa commented 5 years ago

Hey there,

Just found your app on Fdroid and it sounds promising. However, I was not able to set it up / find my hue bridge. Pressing the button on the hue bridge did not change anything, the app just keeps searching endlessly.

I suspect that's because my bridge runs on a different IP network than my WiFi, for security reasons. The original Hue app has the same problem, but there you can enter the IP address of the bridge manually in case the search does not find it.

Maybe you could add a manual IP / bridge setup mode?

Just a suggestion...

flipsa commented 4 years ago

I tried the new version but still can't get it to work. I'm using a hue bridge v1 which exposes http port 80, while logcat shows me that your app only tries to connect to https port 443. I assume v2 bridges might use https/443 nowadays?

If that is the case, maybe you could allow the user to specify the port in the manual setup or gracefully fall back to port 80 if 443 is not responding?

BarnabyShearer commented 4 years ago

Thank you, I hadn't realized that the v1 bridges had not switched to HTTPS. This will require quite a few changes.