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studioimaginaire / phue

A Python library for the Philips Hue system
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allow the user to select the username #97

Closed Sispheor closed 7 years ago

Sispheor commented 7 years ago

During the first connection, the username is registered into the bridge. It's seems that this username is like a token. You need to specify into your REST requests. So, it could be a good point to enhance the security and let the user select this username instead of give a default one.

The first connection would be sometnig like this:

b.connect(username="my_private_and_secret_username")
demosdemon commented 7 years ago

The bridge generates a random username.

Sispheor commented 7 years ago

And then you store it into the .python_hue file, right? Ok, should be good enough so.

Ok, I let you decide to close the PR or keep the idea for later.

Thanks for the lib anyway!

demosdemon commented 7 years ago

The old api used to allow you to create your own username, but Philips changed that. You can no longer input a custom username. You have to use the username the bridge gives you.

Sispheor commented 7 years ago

OK, thank you for your time and your answer. I close the issue then.