4ch1m / huelectron

An open-source and cross-platform app for the Hue lighting system from Philips - built on Electron.

huElectron

An open-source and cross-platform app for the Hue Lighting System from Philips - built on Electron.

Table of Contents

• Screenshots
• Motivation
• Features
• ToDo
• Binaries
• Build It Yourself
• Resources
• License

Screenshots

Motivation

While there are many mobile-apps available for the lighting system from Philips, only few "traditional" desktop-apps can be found.

Since most of these desktop-apps are closed-source and only available for Windows / Mac, I've decided to create an open-source app which will run on all popular systems; including Linux.

Also, this is my first Electron-app; so it served as some kind of playground for me. 😉

Features

The current feature-set includes:

• easy management of ...
  • bridges
  • users
  • lights
  • groups
  • (scenes)
  • (sensors)
  • (schedules)
  • (rules)
• quick-actions (set state/color/brightness with one mouse-click)
• show detailed information about each light, group, etc.

ToDo

huElectron is still at an early development stage; the following features will be implemented in future releases:

• manage portal services
• implement discovery of new lights/sensors
• enhance management of bridges, sensors, scenes, schedules, and rules

Oh, and although I've tried to make the app look somewhat decent by extensively using Bootstrap, of course there's always room for improvement/beautification. So any help/contribution from web-design-wizards is highly welcome. 😃

Binaries

Prebuilt binaries for all target platforms can be found in the releases-section of this repository.

Build It Yourself

• Clone the repository:

  git clone https://github.com/4ch1m/huElectron.git
  

• Change directory:

  cd huElectron
  

• Install dependencies:

  npm install
  

• Now either ...

  • build and package the app for Linux, Mac, and Windows with ...

    npm run package
    

    (The freshly compiled binaries can then be found in the dist-folder.)
  • or just start it right away with ...

    npm start
    

Resources

hue product icons (mostly) taken from (or based on) the official Icon Pack:

• https://developers.meethue.com/develop/application-design-guidance/icon-pack (login needed)

Unfortunately this resource doesn't get updated by Philips anymore (the latest release is from 2019). 😟

Additional icons pulled from:

• hass-hue-icons

License

Please read the license file.

huelectron's Issues

Any chance for an Android version in the future?

This is really cool, I've been looking for a proper open-source/free software way to do this. As this is an Electron app, is there any chance there might be an Android port sometime? :)

Does this require a bridge?

Hi there,

I was wondering if it would be possible to control a single light with bluetooth or if a bridge is required? I can't seem to do anything without adding a bridge (which I don't have).