IzzyHue - Control your Philips Hue bulbs with Isadora

Juriaan

Hi there all !

The last few days I worked on a way to control Philips Hue lights using Isadora for an upcoming performance. I got the base functionality working, and I thought let's share the code and perhaps you guys and girls can give me some advice / feedback on the actor :)

How does it work ?

Get some Philips Hue Color bulbs (I never tested it with strips / or White bulbs etc.. So let me know or it works !)
Get the IP of your Hue Bridge (2.0, Apple Homekit version) and write it down
Go to <ip>/debug/clip.html
Follow the instructions at https://www.developers.meethue...
Write down your username key, we need that !
Open Isadora if you haven't already. In this file we find 4 actors. A Master that controls the communication of the Hue, a Brightness actor, a simple switch on/off actor and a Color actor.
Fill in the IP and the username.
Find out wich lights are active. What is the Unique ID ? (int) (<ip>/debug/clip.html. Command : /api/<username>/lights, GET)
Try to turn the lights on/off. To send the information to the bridge trigger the input 'trigger' on one of the actors.

Got ya's

I'm still working on the feedback from the bridge. It is quite difficult to get a grasp on it .. Because of this I can't close the connection of the Client. This is causing some delay. Currently this is set to 3 seconds.
The plugin is currently broadcasting the data so that you don't have to connect them. This is something that I normally do. Don't want this behavoir ? Just turn the broadcasting input to off and you will never hear from it again ;)
The Color correction is not 100% yet. You will see a slight difference in the color in Izzy / the color that the bulb gives.

Bugs / issues / feature request / etc let me know !

Download here : https://github.com/JuriaanGreg...

bonemap

@juriaan said:

control Philips Hue lights using Isadora for an upcoming performance

Great! Thanks for sharing. How will you use this in a performance is it to change color of domestic lights in a theatrical set or have you hacked a more technical solution?

best wishes

bonemap

Juriaan

Hi there Bonemap,

I'm currently working on a installation where we are translating music for deaf people to other senses. So think about vibration, light, smell, etc. But I can see this working for theatre sets as well ! Saturday we have our first playsession, will collect photo's / etc and create a new thread with more detail :)

pmcwaterrock

@juriaan This set of actors stills seems to work - and it's great. I'm having a problem with the Master resetting the IP address when I change scenes. Do you have any advice. I know the actor set is old though and it might be an Isadora version issue. Thanks - Paul

Woland

@juriaan

We'd love it if you'd upload this to the Add-Ons page if you haven't already :)

Juriaan

@pmcwaterrock

Hi there Paul!
Good to hear that it still works. You can use a so-called Background scene for that and use a workflow using Broadcasters and Listeners.

See our help article for more information about the subject;

https://support.troikatronix.c...

Let me know how it goes :)

- Juriaan

Fred

@juriaan I have a quick question, I am thinking about use Hue bulbs for a large light installation, - in your experience how sync are they - I know there is a soft limit of 40 bulbs per gateway for good operation, but inside this limit do you think I can run animations across bulbs and have them react within 40ms together?

Woland

@fred said:

do you think I can run animations across bulbs and have them react within 40ms together?

Did you ever end up doing this? The mental image of it seems beautiful.