AtmoHue - BETA - Philips Hue support for AtmoLight & AtmoWin (2 Viewers)

[aidbish]

Any chance we could get this working with Lifx Bulbs

 

[Lightning303]

Any chance we could get this working with Lifx Bulbs

In theory no problem, but we dont have any lifx bulbs to develop and test with .

 

[killer8]

Awesome!

Those changes will be in the next stable AtmoLight release as well which should be out in the next few weeks, in this AtmoLight test version there's also the option to turn off the lights while the Mediaportal blank-screen screensaver is active (disabled by default in config atm).

It's working correct most of the time but sometimes its still not turning off. Most of the time when this happens both lights keep on but yesterday night for example only 1 light turned off. Seems it needs a little tweaking or something to make it work perfect again

 

[Rick164]

That might be because the machine is turning off too fast, could you check with the following options:

- Disable the power management from within AtmoLight -> Hue tab
- Enabled the power on/off options withing AtmoHue

This way we know if its related to AtmoLight or AtmoHue not being able to reach the brige fast enough

 

[killer8]

It has not happend anymore for the last few days so I will keep an eye on this and try your suggestion incase it happens again.

One other thing I noticed. I've setupped atmoLight to only turn on lights between 1800 and 0600 but when it's day time(for example now 1300) and I close mediaportal the lights turn on instead of staying off. Is this normal behaviour or a bug? I expect them to stay off since it's not between 1800 and 0600.

When I start mediaportal again the lights will go off again.

 

[Rick164]

That's definitely a bug, most likely caused by AtmoHue as it sends an power command no matter what the leds schedule is.
However it shouldn't be turning on so that's definitely a weird bug as it sends and TurnOff command to the bridge which can't be translated in any other way, so not 100% sure what is causing that but could you check the following:

Test #1
- Make sure you're in the disabled time slot like in example 13:00
- Set lights via Philips Hue remote app to color green and brightness
- Let PC go into standby and post results, most likely it will restore green with brightness

Test #2
- Make sure you're in the disabled time slot like in example 13:00
- Set lights via Philips Hue remote app to color green and brightness
- Play movie and let Mediaportal turn off lights OR turn off lights via AtmoLight context menu
- Let PC go into standby and post results, most likely it will restore the previous color it knows.

 

[killer8]

Test 1: lights go off when putting the pc in standby.
Test 2: color doesn't change when playing video but lights goes off when I put pc in standby

Not sure if it was very clear from my last comment, but the issue is with closing mediaportal and show the windows desktop etc, this will turn the lights on.

 

[Rick164]

Ah right now I see, misread that

Think we might need to add some sort of state reader from the Bridge to figure out what is going on, normally when closing Mediaportal with the default AtmoLight config will tell the handlers to turn off the lights.
Will digg around and see what I can come up with

 

[Rick164]

For those looking for a Hue alternative which is more responsive and easy to build there's a new DIY topic (with videos) here:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...particle-photon-with-neopixel-ws2812b.131901/

Still a work in progress but the build is done and functional already.

 

[zekaja]

Hello @Rick164 for those of us that do use philips hue, could you think about doing a setting to turn down hue lamps when a movie starts... It's a very nice feature in kodi.. I think they call it theater mode...