Thanks for the shout. Theyâve said existing bulbs will work, not existing bridges. But that there would be some kind of upgrade option for the bridge. Itâs all (officially) murky yet.
Details will be officially released in September.
As for what would and wouldnât break, that would come down to the details. No way to know yet.
Theyâve said existing bulbs will work, not existing bridges. But that there would be some kind of upgrade option for the bridge.
This to me might be the best solution so long as that upgrade is optional. People that want HomeKit can upgrade code or buy a new bridge, while people that have zero interest in putting Apple in the middle of their world could use their existing hardware as-is. Iâm done buying smart lights in favor of smart switches these days, so if I can use what I have the way I have it Iâll be happy enough.
With that out of the way - has anyone tried adding the emulator to Logitech Harmony? Version 0.2.0 added enough emulation code to allow Harmony Hub remotes to pick up the emulator and add the defined devices as Hue lamps. Iâve kicked the tires on it and itâs fast. I donât seem to be able to get it to pick up status (on/off or dim level) but I donât think the Echo could do that either. Sending on/off/dim commands from the Harmony is as fast and reliable as anything else. This really doesnât impact ST users much because we already have Harmony integration. Still, itâs neat to see work on this software being pushed forward.
My integration using zpriddyâs solution is set where my term is âAlexa tell my house to turn off kitchen lightsâ and âAlexa tell my house to switch mode to nightâ it is starting to flow well and become more natural. It is nice that zpriddy did the leg work and I can just work on the utterances.
FWIW, weâve used the âHey, Siri, tell House hashtag TV onâ for months for the text to IFTTT method Will Poirier worked out. The âhashtagâ is the only clunky part, the other feels pretty natural, probably because we use Siri for other things as well.
I suspect that conceptually if you think of House and Alexa as two different entities, the language will feel more natural.
Instead of using the Pi we need an OVA we can light up in our VMware labs
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Thatâs definitely workable; though I wonder about the payoff.
If you have a large enough home server to run another virtual machine instance, then sure, itâs quicker and cheaper than adding a Pi or Beagle Bone or other single-purpose Linux metal.
But the amount of time to spin up a Hue Emulator in either type of environment, starting from a current base Linux installation is about the same, right?
Just takes current Java, git-clone the emulator, set a few parameters, make sure your network is properly configured, and ⊠go. ⊠No?
Youâre absolutely correct. Itâs just a matter of simplicity and options. This could also be deployed on a desktop running the free Virtualbox or paid VMware Workstation hypervisor.
Donât get me wrong, I love the Raspberry Pi. Inexpensive, lower power draw etc. but options are good.
Does anyone here use a Mac? I canât find a data directory in with the .jar file and Iâve got duplicates in the list and not sure how to delete them.
I do but have not had a chance to play around with this one. My hope is that Iâll be able to find my Pi and play with this in the next couple days. Not real sure where I left that bad boy⊠probably in some com closet or data center far far away
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Lookâs like there is a Docker package. Surely there is a Docker VM image somewhere?
@captain_eo had mentioned he had seen youtube videos using Echo to change Hue colors and asked how that was done since Echo itself canât.
Iâve seen two different methods.
1.IFTTT as a âman in the middle.â Simple, clunky, but works. Use any of Echoâs IFTTT triggers to set a specific Philips event. Not super useful, but OK if there are only one or two color results you want.
Ignore everything Echo can do except voice recognition. Then use Chrome to hijack Echoâs âsearch historyâ stream and feed it to something else to do device control. Note that this works best if you DONâT use Echoâs connected home feature at all. You want Echo to successfully parse the command, but then not know what to do with it.
Zach Feldmanâs blog was the first place I saw this. Note that his method was released back in December 2014, several months before Echo had any device control of its own. Itâs weird but powerful.
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One idea would be to use or three dimmer commands back to back (each is a value from 0 to 100, so could manage Hue Saturation Brightness).
Thereâs lots of ways to hack the Hue Emulation⊠I just added Hello Home Phrase and Mode Support yesterday afternoon (in Alpha testing⊠Iâll publish soon). Did it entirely with mods to the SmartApp Endpoint; no changes required to the emulator server at all.
If we add a Virtual Color Phrase, it could store a color name to assign to the next light turned on. Voila!
Thanks, @Ron. It works - except no dimming support right? I think there has been progress in the trunk branch on this (v1.3?) and it seems like you integrated some of that, but still dimming is not supported in the raspberry branch, is it? Would be great to have dimming!
@tgauchat If you make changes by forking send me a pull request and I will bring back into my project so others can get the change from my repo if they are already using it.
just a clarification on the statement below - this would still require us to go to your repo and get/update the code in IDE - it wouldnât be automagically updated like SmartTiles, correct?