The EDK not only wraps the Hue bridge discovery and streaming API, but also provides a light effect-rendering engine. Often, replicating effects in a room needs to be independent of the specific home setup, so the EDK takes care of mapping spatial effects onto the user’s specific entertainment layout, which is created in the Hue app. This means the explosion or lightning to your left can be programmed to affect all three lights on that side of the room, or just one light, depending on your setup.
It also offers other primitives for controlling or iterating over specific lights.
From https://developers.meethue.com/entertainment-blog
It also offers other primitives for controlling or iterating over specific lights.
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