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bradyaturner / lights

A Ruby library & CLI for interacting with Philips Hue
MIT License
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Changes to Whitelist username creation #71

Closed SteveyO closed 8 years ago

SteveyO commented 9 years ago

Hi Brady, 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

Looking at your readme and your code (e.g. lights.rb register_username method), it looks like this change will affect you. After February 2016, the setting of the username will not work so it should be removed, and the randomly generated username should be taken from the bridge success response (as shown in above link). Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Thanks Steve

bradyaturner commented 9 years ago

Thank you @SteveyO! I will fix it right up. This is a good change, client generated usernames were unnecessary in my opinion.

SteveyO commented 9 years ago

Thanks great news. Yes I agree, it is a good change, of course a little bit of an inconvenience for guys who have written Hue SDKs and Libraries but thanks for the understanding. Steve

bradyaturner commented 8 years ago

Addressed in PR #73