Basic Philips Hue control via Alfred

[NogbadTheBad]

Just created a couple of workflows to control my Philips Hue lights.

 

The IP address in the Alfred scripts needs changing to your bridge IP address.

 

Hue Add Alfred Support

 

This adds a user called alfredcontrol on your Hue bridge, this only needs to be run once and can be disabled in the workflow window once run, you'll need to press the button on the bridge too.

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2013925/Alfred/Hue%20Add%20Alfred%20Support.alfredworkflow

 

Hue

 

This turns the lights on or off, I have 3 lights ( the 1 to 3 in the script ), if you have more modify the script to suit.

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2013925/Alfred/Hue.alfredworkflow

 

See http://developers.meethue.com/index.html if you want to get a bit creative.

Edited March 17, 2013 by NogbadTheBad

[dhoulb]

Nothing is cooler than typing on the keyboard and changing something else in the house.

[NogbadTheBad]

Updated, includes colour cycling the light bulbs and adding Alfred control in a single workflow.

 

 

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2013925/Alfred/Hue.alfredworkflow

[Ralphman5000]

Thanks for the work on this one!  Once I sorted out my IP, it worked great.

[benknight]

Hey guys, I just published my own Hue workflow here: http://www.alfredforum.com/topic/2723-philips-hue-controller-workflow/

[Ralphman5000]

Problem: After selecting All Lights Color Cycle, the lights will continue to cycle even when switching to other scenes.

 

Solution: add the following line to the Run Script in all the scenes except for "cycle)"

 

curl --request PUT --data "{\"effect\":\"none\"}" http://<YOUR IP ADDRESS>/api/alfredcontrol/groups/0/action

 

That CURL assumes that you want to remove the loop effect from all the lights in your setup, hence the groups/0 address.