Lighting programs for Philips Hue

Since the Hue lights don't retain their scene settings between hardware switches Huwee can run cron jobs to set different scenes according to the hour. This way you can still use the hardware switch without losing the scene settings. It was initially conceived to make the lights follow a gradient over time (white-blue light in the morning, dim red light before sleep) to optimize the sleep related hormone melatonin.

First install the dependencies: 'npm install'. Huwee requires a settings.json to function which contains the different jobs, app-token, etc. To register your app with your Hue bridge and generate a simple settings.json simply run: 'npm start register'. Answer the questions and at the end of the questionaire click on your Hue bridge link button. After this a settings.json will be generated in the root of this project.

A settings.json file can contain multiple job entries which can be enabled/disabled individually by providing the boolean. The transition time in ms can be defined globally and can also be overridden on a per job basis.

The preset job makes sure a preset is enforced every time your Hue light is switched off and on again. In this case it will set the light to the 'NIGHTLIGHT' preset each 10 seconds from midnight up until 6 in the morning. So when switching on your light with your hardware switch at night will at worst give off 10 seconds of 'unbearable' white light (the preset which you can't configure for Hue lights) after which it will transform in one second into a very dim yellow light.

{
    ...
    "bedroom-nightlight": {
      "enabled": true,
      "group": "Bedroom",
      "type": "PRESET",
      "cron": "*/10 * 0-5 * * *",
      "preset": "NIGHTLIGHT",
      "transition-ms": 1000
    }
    ...
}

The following will change the 'Kitchen' light each 30 seconds from 6 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. At 6 it will emit the 'ENERGIZE' preset scene (which is intense white-blue light) and up until 3 in the afernoon it will have changed into a dim red light.

{
    ...
    "kitchen-better-sleep-gradient": {
      "enabled": true,
      "light": "Kitchen",
      "type": "GRADIENT",
      "cron": "*/30 * 6-14 * * *",
      "gradient": {
        "start": {
          "time": {
            "hour": 6,
            "minute": 0,
            "second": 0
          },
          "preset": "ENERGIZE"
        },
        "end": {
          "time": {
            "hour": 14,
            "minute": 59,
            "second": 59
          },
          "preset": "RELAX"
        }
      },
      "transition-ms": 1000
    }
    ...
}

Be adviced that you can define a cron wider (or narrower) than the gradient start and end times. A warning will be logged when you can optimize your gradient start and end times.

The following will turn the 'Dancehall' lights group into a party. It will run a colorloop every minute.

{
    ...
    "dancehall-color-loop": {
      "enabled": true,
      "group": "Dancehall",
      "type": "COLORLOOP",
      "cron": "00 */1 * * * *",
      "count": 1
    }
    ...
}

Simply turn on/off the lights at a given time. In the example below it will turn on the 'Kitchen' light at 6 in the morning every weekday and turn it off at 23:00 in weekends.

{
    ...
    "kitchen-on": {
      "enabled": true,
      "light": "Kitchen",
      "type": "ON",
      "cron": "00 00 6 * * 1-5",
      "transition-ms": 10000
    },
    "kitchen-off": {
      "enabled": true,
      "light": "Kitchen",
      "type": "OFF",
      "cron": "00 00 23 * * 0,6",
      "transition-ms": 10000
    }
    ...
}

{
    ...
    "kids-room-pulse": {
      "enabled": true,
      "group": "Kids",
      "type": "PULSE",
      "cron": "00 30 7 * * 1-5",
      "pulse": {
        "pulse-duration-ms": 1000,
        "count": 20,
        "from": "RED",
        "to": "GREEN"
      }
    }
    ...
}

This wakes up the kids at 7:30 with 20 pulses with a frequency of 1 second from red to green.

Another way to wake up the kids. This time it will dim the light at a certain frequency for a long or short period of time on a certain preset.

{
    "kids-room-alert": {
      "enabled": true,
      "group": "Kids",
      "type": "ALERT",
      "cron": "00 30 7 * * 1-5",
      "alert": {
        "type": "LONG",
        "preset": "RED"
      }
    }
}

STANDARD, ENERGIZE, CONCENTRATE, READ, RELAX, NIGHTLIGHT

RED, GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW, ORANGE, PINK, PURPLE, TURQUOISE