A Kodi add-on that controls Philips Hue lights. In "Theater mode" the add-on dims the the Philips Hue lights as soon as a movie starts playing, and turns the lights back on once the movie is done. "Ambilight mode" turns your Philips Hue lights in a room-sized ambilight.
Check out the pre-release version in the Releases section. Lots of big improvements, and should behave better than 0.7 and older versions. It might be a good idea to clear your settings before starting to use the 0.8 releases.
This is a side project for me, and as such I'll update it when and if I have time . I'll happily respond to issues and feature requests (provided that they are detailed enough to realistically debug your problem (LOGS)). Since this is based on @cees-elzinga's original work, I've only modified some of the functions to enhance the features. I don't personally use the ambilight feature, and therefore havent done much testing with it... Again, happy to try and help out, but don't expect super-quick responses!
Please fork and enhance! Pull requests welcome!
Please turn on Debug Logging through the addon (Configure -> Advanced Settings -> Debug Logging) and follow the procedure at http://kodi.wiki/view/Log_file/Easy to upload a log file. Provide a link to your logfile in the issue.
The add-on depends on the Kodi add-on "requests" for the ambilight mode.
Kodi add-on script.module.requests
- Download the add-on as a ZIP file from https://github.com/beenje/script.module.requests
- (Right click on the "ZIP" icon and select "Download Linked File").
- Open Kodi
- Go to
System -> Settings -> Add-ons -> Install from zip file - Select the zip file.
Kodi add-on script.kodi.hue.ambilight
- Download the add-on as a ZIP file from the top of this page
- (Right click on the "ZIP" icon and select "Download Linked File")
- Open Kodi
- Go to
System -> Settings -> Add-ons -> Install from zip file - Restart Kodi and configure the add-on:
System -> Settings -> Add-ons -> Enabled add-ons -> Services -> Kodi Philips Hue- Run
Start auto discovery of bridge IP and User.
Note for Raspberry Pi users:
- Save the add-on configuration by exiting Kodi before shutting down the Pi completely
- Ambilight mode doesn't work on a Raspberry Pi due to the way it renders video
- 2015-11-02 v 0.7.2 Minor update, attempting to resolve autodiscover issues
- 2015-07-26 v 0.7.1 Updated Icon, code refactor, bugfixes, better group performance, handling of "pause during screen refresh rate change" setting
- 2015-01-15 v 0.7.0 Fixed Kodi references, added paused brightness override (changes beginning here by @michaelrcarroll)
- 2014-01-12 v 0.6.2 Minor improvements
- 2013-07-13 v 0.6.0 General improvements all around (by robwalch)
- 2013-05-25 v 0.5.0 Debug logging, livingwhite lights
- 2013-05-04 v 0.4.0 Advanced settings
- 2013-04-25 v 0.3.6 Custom dimmed brightness in theatre mode
- 2013-04-02 v 0.3.4 Ambilight is more responsive
- 2013-04-01 v 0.3.3 Rename to script.xbmc.hue.ambilight
- 2013-02-25 v 0.3.1 Improved handling for grouped lights
- 2013-01-27 v 0.1.0 Initial release
- Add: saturation override so that full light parameters can be overridden
- Fix: lights may turn on if they are already off, need better state checking
- Add: setting to customize what is considered a "short" video
- Add: experimental auto undim when movie reaches credits (does not always work, may ruin your movie-watching experience)
- Refactor: clean up a lot of the old code that's still in the addon, but not necessary
- Add: OpenHAB support for a grouped switch endpoint (to turn off a set of lights that are controlled by something other than Philips Hue... i.e. Z-Wave)
- Publish: get addon onto the official Kodi addon repository