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Philips Hue Service & Ambilight - Snapcase - 2019-06-24 Hello, I created this addon for my own use to adjust my lights based on Kodi. It can adjust lights based on playback options, and includes experimental support for Ambilight. Requirements
Installation - Stable version
Installation - Development version
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RE: Philips Hue Service - Bone9 - 2019-06-26 (2019-06-24, 01:04)Snapcase Wrote: Hello, It connects to my bridge and says saving settings but when I got into the add on to set up the scenes etc the bridge settings aren't there. Retried many times and it doesn't save the settings. Edit. To fix this I exited the add on straight after connecting the bridge. This saved it and the settings were intact when started again which then enabled me to configure the settings. Thanks! RE: Philips Hue Service - Snapcase - 2019-06-27 (2019-06-26, 23:16)Bone9 Wrote: It connects to my bridge and says saving settings but when I got into the add on to set up the scenes etc the bridge settings aren't there. Retried many times and it doesn't save the settings. Thanks for letting me know. I've had some bugs with the settings not saving when that window is open before. I'll check it out. RE: Philips Hue Service - Cinephile - 2019-06-27 Excellent, thanks for your efforts. Do you know if this works with external players? Currently I am using mpc for 4K HDR playback on Windows (native Kodi player for standard Blu-ray) and previous apps didn't account for that. RE: Philips Hue Service - Snapcase - 2019-06-27 (2019-06-27, 05:08)HomeTheatreGuru Wrote: Excellent, thanks for your efforts. I haven't tested it and never used external players, so I don't know for sure. The script only triggers if Kodi informs it that there was a play or stop event, so it all depends on if Kodi knows what the external player is doing. If it's not already supported at the Kodi level, it's not something I can add on my own. I'm mainly on a LibreElec setup so I don't think it's something I can try out easily on my end - you'd have to try it out to know for sure. I've just released some fixes that should make it more reliable and fix some bugs with some of the settings not working properly. RE: Philips Hue Service - Cinephile - 2019-06-27 Thanks for the quick reply, I shall test for myself and report back! RE: Philips Hue Service - Snapcase - 2019-06-27 (2019-06-26, 23:16)Bone9 Wrote: It connects to my bridge and says saving settings but when I got into the add on to set up the scenes etc the bridge settings aren't there. Retried many times and it doesn't save the settings. Hi @Bone9 I ran into a problem like you described last night but I'm not 100% sure of the cause. I changed some things around and it stopped happening on my system but I don't know for certain I fixed it. If you get a chance to update the plugin and try again, let me know what happens. Also, I was having the problem on Libreelec but not my windows install. What OS are you running Kodi on? RE: Philips Hue Service - macardi - 2019-06-29 Hi! Thanks for a great addon! Would it be possible to add a setting that allows the light adjustment to activate just between specific hours? RE: Philips Hue Service - Snapcase - 2019-06-30 (2019-06-29, 23:33)macardi Wrote: Hi!That's a good idea and shouldn't be too complicated if Kodi has an easy way to input a time. I want to make it much as work as possible with a remote control so I never have to get up from my couch! I'll look into it. RE: Philips Hue Service - macardi - 2019-06-30 Great, the sunset settings doesn’t really work for me during summer since I live in Sweden and the sun not really set. So setting an hour interval would be great. Thanks RE: Philips Hue Service - Snapcase - 2019-07-01 @macardi In that case I'm going to stop complaining about dark canadian winter days... I'm curious, how do the Sunrise and Sunset routines in the Hue app work in your case? My add-on uses the same times which as far as I know should work worldwide based on location & time of year. In any event, I've released a new version, v0.4.0, that supports setting a time window in which the add-on is active. Note that "disable during daytime" takes precedence. The setting needs to be entered in 24h format, and if the end time is beyond midnight it won't work properly. Eg, setting a time window from 16:00 to 01:30 won't behave correctly. I'll see if I can improve this in the future. I've also added support for UPNP/ SSDP discovery for those that need it. UPNP isn't very fast so I only fall back if the NPNP discovery doesn't work. Also, if it gets disconnected, it should retry every 2 minutes up to a maximum of 5 times. This should be useful for those that have dynamic IP addresses for their Hue bridge, as the retry will attempt to look for an updated IP. Hopefully these improvements make it work better for a broader range of network setups. RE: Philips Hue Service - macardi - 2019-07-01 Thank you, will test tonight! It’s not that the sunset routine doesn’t work, but since the sun set so late I’m in bed before it happens. RE: Philips Hue Service - eddyg - 2019-07-02 Posting my thanks to Snapcase - Just installed your Hue Service (via your repo) - and it worked the first time. The UX works for me, the creation of the scenes via your phone etc and then taking a copy of that within your service within kodi. I can easily set the service to dim the main cinema lights to off whilst simultaneously fading up some ambiance lights. To be honest, what you are doing now, out of the box, is all I wanted from a kodi hue extension, so hooray to you, and many thanks. Cheers, Ed. RE: Philips Hue Service - Snapcase - 2019-07-02 That's good to hear, I'm glad it's useful to others than me RE: Philips Hue Service - Snapcase - 2019-07-15 Hi, I released a new version v0.5.0 with experimental ambilight support. It worked out much better than I expected! I'll update the main post with more information. There are many parameters that need tuning which I haven't settled on, and I'll be exposing more settings in a future version. I'm especially curious for anyone to try this on a low powered device like a Raspberry Pi. Calculating the colours is a pretty costly. |