Control led lights on hub plus

[strunker]

Very minor but it would be kind of cool to be able to toggle the light states on\off via the API on the hub plus.

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[donavanbecker]

+1

[RosemaryOrchard]

Seconding this! That would be really nice.

[ganlbarone]

+1 from me.

[mrlt8]

Would like this too!

[strunker]

I wouldnt hold your breath lol. I dont think they have made any updates to the API since release back in Dec. Not any that have made it into the docs they havent been updated in 4 months. I had saw in another post somewhere the dev team stated they arent really focused on the enhancements that they were focusing on some app nonsense. I thought the app, least on iOS worked well enough not sure what else they are doing there, but they definitely don't seem to be paying much mind to the API.

[mrlt8]

Is there any unofficial way to control the LEDs on the hub or has anyone sniffed the packets on the official app?

[strunker]

I did originally. But literally like the same week they publicly released the API and I just turned more towards developing around that rather than hacking apart the app with fiddler. I have to do this quite often with my Blink cameras, because there is no official API. It becomes rather annoying to maintain when the vendor makes changes.

Perhaps here, since the changes to this product seem rather infrequent, it would be a different experience but I definitely wouldn't opt for this over official support. They should just put it in the API officially supported, they could probably implement this in like an hour since it already exists in the app.

[mrlt8]

Any luck?
I had a quick look, but 1) it seems like we can't control the LEDs over bluetooth and 2) remote "cloud" control seems to control the LEDs via mqtt on AWS IoT.

I wonder if this is the main reason why the LED controls have not been exposed to the API? From what I could tell, all the other commands seem to be standard http requests.

[strunker]

I'll give it a look and post back when i have some free time.

This is the type of stuff that pisses me off though. Like, in 2021 when you buy a "smart" product, it should be built from ground up around an extensible API that ANYONE can get access to. That's like half the reason to buy into these types of products.

[strunker]

I spent a little time on this today. I turned off BT on my phone so that it would be forced to make wifi calls as opposed to BT. I saw no web requests fly through fiddler when controlling the light on the hub. Assuming this means that traffic is proxies, or uses some other protocol, udp maybe, or other method like a web socket, something that would not show up in fiddler. It was odd because some of the things for the hub, like when you pull its firmware information under the "more" section, does make an api call to some endpoint hosted in AWS. The actual LED control sadly does not.