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An E-Home controller server.
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Philips HUE #5

Open anton-johansson opened 6 years ago

anton-johansson commented 6 years ago

Mess around with Philips HUE. Investigate what is needed and how the protocol works (I assume it's over WiFi, and no controller is needed, but this needs to be checked). What device(s) do I need to try it out?

There seems to be an OK Java SDK available:

anton-johansson commented 6 years ago

After some searching, the above SDK seems to be deprecated.

Here is an updated one. It's a closed source one, but it's better than nothing. The HUE API is public, so if the SDK does not meet the demands, a custom one can always be built.

Getting started guide

anton-johansson commented 6 years ago

Potential start package:

anton-johansson commented 6 years ago

Philips HUE seems to use the Zigbee protocol. If possible, it would be much better to utilize that directly and skip the Philips HUE Bridge. Can hopefully use a product like this and a Java library like one of these:

anton-johansson commented 6 years ago

If we use Zigbee directly, the HUE Bridge above would be replaced with Telegesis USB Zigbee Transciever Module.