Hoppla [Philips Hue Operation Plasmoid]

Hoppla [Philips Hue Operation Plasmoid] Original

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/Fuchs/hoppla-sa

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Description:

Philips Hue light control plasmoid for KDE Plasma 5 (Stand alone version)

This plasmoid enables you to control Philips Hue (http://www.meethue.com) light bulbs.
The idea of the stand alone version is that it requires no compiled backend and thus can be
deployed as is, e.g. via Get Hot New Stuff.

It allows you to

* Turn lights and groups on / off
* Set the brightness of lights and groups
* Set the colour or white temperature
* Control single lights belonging to a group
* Create and use global actions, such as turning all lights on or off
* Set an alternative connection, including http basic auth
* Control your lights from outside your home network if you have a proxy at home
* Create, update and delete lights, schedules and groups

Requirements

* Plasma 5 & Qt 5.4+
* Qt5 Graphical Effects
* Extra CMake Modules (only for building)

For more information, check out the README at https://github.com/Fuchs/hoppla-sa/blob/master/README.md
For old releases check out GitHub releases at https://github.com/Fuchs/hoppla-sa/releases

Last changelog:

Spacing fixes 1 year ago

Fixes various spacing issues, especially with scaling and/or odd font/icon sizes

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odd-k
2 months ago

10 Must have to get the best value out of Hue lights!

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internet
1 year ago

i really like the widget but one of the actions i created causes plasma to restart for some reason. it's a simple routine of set 9 groups to "off", set one group to "on". the action completes before plasma restarts too, which makes it even stranger.

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Fuchs
1 year ago

Please create an issue on GitHub and attach as much debugging information as possible, at very least the payload of the action, and preferably the messages (or a backtrace) of plasma crashing. You can start plasma from a terminal to get the messages.

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internet
1 year ago

Hey Fuchs, I deleted the action but I'll recreate the action and look for the issue to recur when I get back to KDE in a few days. If you'd like, feel free to ping me if you don't hear back.

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nohspam
1 year ago

9 9 excellent - On the basis of the developer's swift response to my review score of 6 and redirection of my specific problem with the plasmoid (erratic scheduling) to github issues, I've updated my rating to 9. For a feature where I can choose on/off times relative to an approximate (TZ) sunrise or sunset event, I'd give it a 10

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S2 A 10

jpagac
1 year ago

10 10 the best

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itsbehindyou
1 year ago

10 brings Phlips hue support to Linux in form of a nice plasmoid

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itsbehindyou
1 year ago

hi Fuchs, i found now information on a nice site ("Running Philips Hue Lights Locally") about setting date/time via API and opened an issue in github (https://github.com/Fuchs/hoppla-sa/issues/10) with the link - it's my first time and hope i did it correctly. i see it would be also possible to set the bridge network settings in the same place too (dhcp/ip/netmask/etc). that would be a nice addition too since i had to get a smartphone just to disable dhcp and set a static IP one one bridge (and the other one is still set to dhcp and i have to start up a dhcp server on a linux box every time the bridge reboots)

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Fuchs
1 year ago

Hi,

yes, that looks good on GitHub, yeah, I replied there.

tl;dr here is: I'd like to add the possibility to configure more bridge stuff, but it's going to take some time because it will need a couple of reconsiderations and also a lot of rewriting, plus some advanced things you wanted might not be possible with pure-qml limitations.

As this will take quite some time I did also mention a workaround there for you, which can be done from any web browser or, if you prefer command line or need to automate stuff, you could even do it via curl. I hope that helps in the meantime, since this is hopefully not something you need to change often.

Kind regards,

Fuchs

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Cqoicebordel
2 years ago

9 +

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itsbehindyou
2 years ago

i can't rate it so i'm writing a comment in here: thank you very much for the great plasmoid/widget! :-)

i'm not a programmer but if i can make a feature request, now that Philips Hue Play has been released, it would be to control the colours of lights depending on the colours shown on the PC screen on the kde desktop, like Philips Ambilight does on TV's or the addon "script.kodi.hue.ambilight" does on Kodi, like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOO6BBXTcYM
https://github.com/mpolednik/script.kodi.hue.ambilight

maybe part of the code can be even reused?

and it would be also nice to be able to see and change the date and time set on the bridge in case you can't or don't want to connect it to the internet and it doesn't reach a NTP server

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Fuchs
2 years ago

Hi,

thank you very much for the praise and suggestions.
Could you please submit suggestions through GitHub, though? Here they get a bit lost, there they can be tracked. And as all the code is open source, other people can tackle them as well.

What I can already say is that I think access to screen content might be limited in QML, and I try to keep my plasmoid pure QML. So I'm not sure whether I can create something able to change colours based on screen content. A media player (like Kodi) is the correct piece of software to handle this.

Bridge: if this is exposed via the API: I can, otherwise I can't. I'd have to figure out where to put it in the config, but I can likely do that, assuming you can set it through the API.

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davvore33
2 years ago

There is any way to use this with the IKEA Tradfri?

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Fuchs
2 years ago

Hi,

I don't have any to test, but if you use them via a Hue bridge I assume it might work. If you don't: only if Ikea uses the same REST API.

However, the source code is all on GitHub, feel free to adapt it.

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themysi
2 years ago

9 +

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DanielRios549
2 years ago

Is that a replacement for redshift-control? I would like to use an interface like that for redshift, with presets and tabs, it would be better than use mouse clicks on tray icon...

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Fuchs
2 years ago

Hi, no, this is completely unrelated to redshift. It is meant to control philips hue lightbulbs, not your screen.

Note that it is open source (see link on top), as is the redshift one, so you should be able to create a plasmoid for redshift that has tabs :)

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DanielRios549
2 years ago

Oh, I though it was related with redshift because of the icon, sorry man, but I really would like this popup on redshift tray icon it is boring change temperature and brightness manually with mouse clicks...

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manu-pardo
2 years ago

Hello. ¿what KDE plasma theme you used in the images? greetings from Santiago of Chile

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Fuchs
2 years ago

Hi, the plasmoid uses an older version of breeze dark, nothing special. The window content and window decoration is just regular breeze.

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baltolkien
2 years ago

9 Great plasmoid!

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Fuchs
2 years ago

Thank you very much :)

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brunofin
2 years ago

9 +

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r0uzic
2 years ago

9 I love this plasmoid, it's very useful!

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r0uzic
2 years ago

OMG, I love this plasmoid, please add features and translations <33333

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Spacing fixes 1 year ago

Fixes various spacing issues, especially with scaling and/or odd font/icon sizes

2.8.2 1 year ago

Adds support for some things added in 1.30 HUE API, namely:
- new types of rooms
- entertainment groups (limited support, can't be edited, but can be controlled or removed)
- zones (full support, but not throughout tested)

2.8.0 2 years ago

Ship translations with the .plasmoid, add confirmation dialogues for non-undoable destructive actions such as removing a group, light, action or schedule

2.6.2 3 years ago

+ Bugfix for recent Philips Hue updates that would lead to old states at updates (clicking the checkbox works, but it is not updated unless you click again)

2.6.0 4 years ago

* added coloured icons for all types
* adapted the Action configuration GUI to make icon and colour selection easier

2.4.4 4 years ago

* Fix a bug in ActionEditor when "All lights" is selected
* Add some placeholder texts in bridge config
* Add http as a default protocol when none is given

2.4.2 4 years ago

* Existing action commands can now be edited
* Fix a bug that prevented weekly schedules to be filled correctly
* Fix a bug that prevented action editor from loading an "off" state correctly
* Workaround a plasma bug that makes configuration unavailable
* Update tooltip as soon as data is initially available

2.2.0 4 years ago

* ActionEditor now can load existing actions, thus you can modify existing schedule commands
* Added Swiss German as translation
* Bug fixes
* Translation updates

2.0.2 4 years ago

Fix potential bug when opening the config before the plasmoid

2.0.0 4 years ago

Manage your stuff version:
* Adds possibilities to manage lights, groups and schedules
* Allows using effects and alerts
* Bug fixes and translation updates

1.0 4 years ago

Initial Release

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odd-k Mar 01 2021 10 the best

Must have to get the best value out of Hue lights!

nohspam Sep 20 2019 9 excellent

9 excellent - On the basis of the developer's swift response to my review score of 6 and redirection of my specific problem with the plasmoid (erratic scheduling) to github issues, I've updated my rating to 9. For a feature where I can choose on/off times relative to an approximate (TZ) sunrise or sunset event, I'd give it a 10