Gun-Huesync

Real-time updates with hue and gunDB

Inspired by gun-hue from @PsychoLlama, but rewritten from scratch.

What it is

'gun-huesync' will fetch the fullstate from your Philips Hue bridge and puts it in Gun. Then you can control your bridge/lights/schedules/groups etc with the Gun API.

By using gun, you get some immediate benefits:

• simpler API interface
• easy real-time UI updates
• real-time updates on other client's apps
• offline editing

Don't have a HUE bridge but want to develop for it anyway ?

I have a fork of hue-simulator here https://github.com/Stefdv/hueSimulator ( the original installs global )

 npm install Stefdv/hue-simulator

How to use ii

npm install gun-huesync

require('gun-huesync');

This will add

gun.hue() takes an object with the IP of the bridge and your private key. To find the bridge and get an API key, read this great guide.

gun.hue({
  domain: '192.168.1.337',
  key: 'HfBwAl0gNPUQnmqCaxZCcNfd',
})

Once you've done that, it'll fetch the hue state and plug it in your gun instance.

##NOTE:

Due to the changed Gun API, map() does not work as before ( like with Gun 0.3 ;p)

I recommend to use the each() snippet and also to import path.js from 'gun/libs/path.js'

var HUE = gun.get('HUE');
var lights = HUE.get('lights');
var groups = HUE.get('groups');
// Print out your available lights
 lights.each(nr => {
    lights.path('nr.state').val(state=>{
        console.log(state)
    })
 })

// Turn on all the lights
 lights.each(nr => {
    lights.path('nr.state.on').put(true)
 })

// Print out all the groups
groups.each(nr => {
    groups.path('nr').val( group => {
        console.log(group)
    })
})

// Listen for changes to a lights' brightness


// Change the brightness
lights.get(5).get('state').get('bri').put(42)

But i probably will include methods for this later on

TODO

Provide examples

Warning

If you change the state of the lights through something other than gun after it's already connected, the state won't sync. This is because this library doesn't poll the rest service.

Support

Have questions? Either post an issue or tag me on Gitter (I usually hang out there as @Stefdv).