/script.kodi.hue.ambilight

Kodi add-on for Philips Hue lights with ambilight support. Based on @cees-elzinga 's original work.

Primary LanguagePythonDo What The F*ck You Want To Public LicenseWTFPL

script.kodi.hue.ambilight

A Kodi add-on that controls Philips Hue lights. In "Theater mode" the add-on dims the the Philips Hue lights as soon as a movie starts playing, and turns the lights back on once the movie is done. "Ambilight mode" turns your Philips Hue lights in a room-sized ambilight.

Installation

The add-on depends on the Kodi add-on "requests" for the ambilight mode.

Kodi add-on script.module.requests

  • Download the add-on as a ZIP file from https://github.com/beenje/script.module.requests
  • (Right click on the "ZIP" icon and select "Download Linked File").
  • Open Kodi
  • Go to System -> Settings -> Add-ons -> Install from zip file
  • Select the zip file.

Kodi add-on script.kodi.hue.ambilight

  • Download the add-on as a ZIP file from the top of this page
    • (Right click on the "ZIP" icon and select "Download Linked File")
  • Open Kodi
  • Go to System -> Settings -> Add-ons -> Install from zip file
  • Restart Kodi and configure the add-on:
  • System -> Settings -> Add-ons -> Enabled add-ons -> Services -> Kodi Philips Hue
  • Run Start auto discovery of bridge IP and User.

Note for Raspberry Pi users:

  • Save the add-on configuration by exiting Kodi before shutting down the Pi completely
  • Ambilight mode doesn't work on a Raspberry Pi due to the way it renders video

Release history

  • 2015-07-26 v 0.7.1 Updated Icon, code refactor, bugfixes, better group performance, handling of "pause during screen refresh rate change" setting
  • 2015-01-15 v 0.7.0 Fixed Kodi references, added paused brightness override (changes beginning here by @michaelrcarroll)
  • 2014-01-12 v 0.6.2 Minor improvements
  • 2013-07-13 v 0.6.0 General improvements all around (by robwalch)
  • 2013-05-25 v 0.5.0 Debug logging, livingwhite lights
  • 2013-05-04 v 0.4.0 Advanced settings
  • 2013-04-25 v 0.3.6 Custom dimmed brightness in theatre mode
  • 2013-04-02 v 0.3.4 Ambilight is more responsive
  • 2013-04-01 v 0.3.3 Rename to script.xbmc.hue.ambilight
  • 2013-02-25 v 0.3.1 Improved handling for grouped lights
  • 2013-01-27 v 0.1.0 Initial release