This tool will restore groups and scenes. Lights must be setup. It assumes that lights are all the same (using their uniqueid to identitfy them). It has been tested after a clean up of the Hub via the Android Philips Hue app. Currently this will only restore some groups and most group scenes. Note: groups must not exist already – doing a clean up via the app will not delete exisiting groups, you must do this yourself.
I couldn't connect Philips Hue to my Google Home ;( – Philips support suggested 'clean up' via the app which worked! However, I didn't want to lose all my scenes so I wrote this little restore utility. Feel free to extend as you wish but please do make it open source!
Python 3.7
pip install requests
Tested with Hue API 1.32.0, swversion 1932073040 (source: https://192.168.0.10/api/config)
- Create a backup using
./backup.sh <hubip> <username>. Requires curl and jq.- This stores the files under the api paths starting from after
api/<username>/.... E.g.api/<username>/scenes/abcdstored under<backup_dir>/scenes/abcd.json.api/<username>/groups-><backup_dir>/groups.json
- This stores the files under the api paths starting from after
- This app will require a Hub username or api key and the hub local ip. (Login required for links)
- Paste in the details in
restore.pyat the bottom.
- Paste in the details in
- Run
python restore.py - Hopefully thats it!