Feature Request: Smart lighting support.

[byalvaroft]

So first of all I have to thank you and all the contributors of this project, If it was for the companies, we would never see unified lighting across different brands, this allows us to have more freedom when choosing our devices.

So the past weekend I thought, how cool would it be to sync my Yeelight RGB light bulb to the games lighting effects, so I started researching and found a couple of interesting things. First I found that Razer and Philips made a deal not too long ago and that Razer Synapse now supported Hue Lighting integration.

This is great news because it allows the lighting effects to go beyond our peripherals and we can now use LED strips bulbs and lamps to light up our rooms or even houses. So here is the kicker, Razer´s smart lighting integration has the same annoying limitation that Aurora fixes.
Freedom of choice. Only hue is supported and hue lights and bridge are VERY expensive compared to other brands and even more if compared to cheap LED controllers and strips.

So I started looking for a way to use my Yeelight RGB bulb and found a couple of interesting projects like yours:

diyHue
https://github.com/mariusmotea/diyHue

Emulates Philips Hue Bridge using a Raspberry Pi and adds support for A LOT of devices including cheap bulbs, controllers and home assistants. Even Razer hue integration is supported (I am not sure if it works properly in current version)
This is amazing but of course it requires a Raspberry Pi, a bit of knowledge and tinkering and its limited to razer peripherals.

Yeelight Toolbox

Then I found Yeelight toolbox, a lot of these light-bubs can be controlled remotely by using the companies server and original apps or through LAN using their SDK and third party tools. I talked to the dev about this idea and he thinks is great and will take a look into it.

I am not a dev, I have little knowledge on how much work this takes but a lot of the wrappers and support for different brands and lighting ecosystem seems to have been done already so I think that adding support for smart lighting solutions could be a reachable goal and a great feature for Aurora.

Again, thanks for the great work, I will keep recommending Aurora to my friends and I hope unified lighting will become a standard some day. Also, sorry for my choppy English and the spelling mistakes, it´s not my native language.

[gobba]

Checkout home assistant, I have all my lights and stuff in HA and would be cool to pick my gaming room lights to sync with the game

[Gurjot95]

Hue should be working now and try #1396 for Yeelight