Philips Hue system - Questions for those who own these

[scottinpollock (Scott)]

@Tim

Can you point me in the right direction?

I can point you in a couple of directions, but you may find both to be more hoops to jump through than you’re comfortable with.

Both of these directions involve using the sendHubCommand in a SmartApp. In my case, I use HAMBridge to execute scenes from shell scripts on a Mac Mini. HAMBridge also has a feature that creates such a shell script from your current scenes automatically. But if you don’t have a Mac running 24/7, that’s not gonna be for you.

There is also a way to recall scenes from the Hue bridge API. Scenes that have been run from the Hue app are actually cached (up to 200 of them) in the bridge, and can be recalled using the Hue bridge ‘group’ API. I did a lengthy post the other day about this at:

HUE question

The web portal has been around for some time. The scenes stored on the Hue bridge have no relationship to the scenes in the cloud or on the mobile device other than they are cached on the hub when they are executed from either. The Bridge can support 200 scenes in this cache, so if you have less than 200 scenes, all of them will be available from from the Hue API (as long as they have been previously executed). When the bridge’s available scene storing resources have been exhausted, new scenes will overwrite old ones (I am guessing by order of creation but the docs only say they are ‘recycled’). The individual light parameters for each scene cached on the bridge are actually are stored in the lights themselves (that turned out to be the mysterious location I mentioned earlier). While you …

Have a read of that to see what’s involved.

More info on HAMBridge is available at:

http://soletc.com/HAMBridge/index.html