Control a Philips Hue light based on your city's garbage and recycling days.
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This project only works with cities or counties that use ReCollect for their solid waste communications.
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This script will control a Philips Hue lightbulb using a Philips Hue bridge, so you must have those setup and working before starting this project.
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This script must have network access to your Philips Hue Bridge. You could run it on a raspberry pi or other computer in your house.
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Activate your Philips Hue Color bulb and connect it to your Hue Bridge like normal.
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Find the IP address of your Hue Bridge https://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/hue-bridge-discovery
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Get an access token to the hue bridge. They call it a
username:
curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"devicetype":"awesome#recyclight"}' http://YOUR_BRIDGE_IP/api
This will return some JSON with a username field, which you will put in a config file below.
- Now fetch the list of lights from the bridge:
curl http://YOUR_BRIDGE_IP/api/YOUR_USERNAME/lights | python -m json.tool
This will show you all the lights connected to your bridge. You can pick the one you want to control.
- Create a config file. Copy the
recyclight.example.yamlfile from this project.
Place your file in ~/.recyclight.yaml, /etc/recyclight.yaml or in another location and use the RECYCLIGHT_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.
- Install the necessary Perl dependencies
The cpanfile lists the dependencies. The cpanm tool can make installing dependencies very easy. Check it out.
sudo apt-get install cpanminuscpanm --sudo --installdeps .
- Try it out!
Try running the script. The output is fairly verbose. For testing purposes it can help to use different ical feeds, based on different addresses that may or may not have collection in progress.
You can use any light you want, as long as it's connected to your bridge. It could be in your house, on your garage or in your alley for your neighbours.
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