Readme: lampe

lampe (-cli): bash-script to control your Philips Hue lights in interactive, oneshot or blind mode.

lampe-gtk: Control your Philips Hue lights from the Gnome-Desktop

Requirements

Following cli-tools need to be installed on your system in order to use lampe (-bash):

• curl
• ping
• ip
• sed
• cut
• grep
• jq (since v1.1.11)
• JSON.sh v0.2.1 forked, tested and branched from dominictarr/JSON.sh, later versions may work as well (will be depricated in future versions)
• redshift
• bc
• feinstaub from feinstaubwolke (for particulate matter sequence)

lampe-gtk has the following dependencies:

• libsoup
• gtk3
• json-glib
• vala

Installation

If you want to use "lampe" system-wide, you can install it this way:

make
make install # as root or use sudo

• If your version of redshift is compiled without geoclue-support than you have to add redshift_options="-l xx.xx:yy.yy" to your "~/.config/lampe/light-defaults" in order to have color temperature based on your location; a few examples:

# redshift_options="-l 65.6:-36.6" # ammassalik, grönland
# redshift_options="-l 31:121" # shanghai
# redshift_options="-l 41:-87" # chicago
redshift_options="-l 52.52:13.40" # berlin
redshift_options="${redshift_options} -t 9500:1700"

on Arch Linux: Thx to FSMaxB there is an Arch package availabe in the AUR:

yaourt lampe

on Gentoo Linux: Add my overlay "koo" (instructions there) with layman and than simply:

emerge -av lampe

Configuration

lampe will ask you for automatic discovery on first start. If the discovery fails, it will ask for the IP of the bridge. After that it will try to register itself at your Hue-bridge and ask you to press the Link-button. This should work with the new Hue-bridge api version which does not allow explicit user names anymore.

Reset

If the IP of the bridge has changed you can edit it in ~/.lamperc. If that does not help you can reset the initial configuration by removing ~/.lamperc and restart lampe.

rm ~/.lamperc

Usage: lampe (-bash)

interactive mode

Use "lampe" like a computer-game without gamepad or arrow-keys - use WASD. (: See following list for more options:

1..99 - select light
    w - increase brightness
    a - lower saturation
    s - lower brightness
    d - increase saturation
 q, e - change hue-color
 y, Y - switch (all) lights on
 n, N - switch (all) lights off
 i, I - info: receive current or all light state(s)
 S, l - save and load user configuration
    F - find new lights (NOT implemented)
    r - start or stop random color sequence
    b - start or stop blinking sequence
    A - alert
    m - start or stop time based sequence
    t - start or stop redshift sequence
    o - start or stop noise sequence
    p - start or stop particulate matter sequence
    x - toggle brightness based on time for sequences
    Q - quit

oneshot mode

If you prefere that "lampe" just exists after changing a light setting, you can use the oneshot mode. All options can be used. The parameter LIGHT (number) is mandatory for all non-global options.

lampe -s [LIGHT] OPTION

blind mode

If you have a very slow terminal, you can use the blind mode as follows; it won't show up the current light state unless you type "i" or "I". All other function are still accessible:

lampe -b