perrinennen / 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.

Branch	Status	Dependencies
master
development		n/a

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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)
• quick-actions (set state/color/brightness with one mouse-click)
• show detailed information about each light/group

TODO

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

• manage schedules
• manage rules
• manage portal services
• implement discovery of new lights
• implement discovery of new new sensors
• enhance bridge-management (zigbeeChannel, proxyPort, timeZone, etc.)
• enhance sensor-management (type, virtual sensor creation, etc.)
• enhance scene-management

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 the app for Linux, Mac, and Windows:

    npm run build
    

    (The freshly compiled binaries can then be found in the dist-folder.)

  • or just start it right away:

    npm start
    

Author

📧 Achim Seufert

License

Please read the license file.

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