Hue Controller for the Raspberry Pi

These files are meant to placed in /home/pi/hue/ on the RPi.

Necessary packages for the Linux Image

Update python (2.x) to the latest release.

sudo apt-get install python-dev

Install the latest RPi.GPIO module (0.3.1a). We will use easy_install to manage the python packages.

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install rpi.gpio

Install Phue

sudo easy_install phue

sudo apt-get install python-pip
pip install phue

Systemd Installation

This uses systemd for initializing for speed (over init.d).

First install system.d:

$ apt-get install systemd

Then tell the kernel to use systemd as the init system, by appending init=/bin/systemd to the end of /boot/cmdline.txt line. Example:

dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline rootwait init=/bin/systemd

To list available units: systemctl

Create Hue init service

Create hue.service in /etc/systemd/system/ and paste this into it:

[Unit]
Description=Hue Controller
Requires=local-fs.target
After=local-fs.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/home/pi/hue/bin/hue.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then make systemd aware of the service:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable myFancy.service
systemctl start myFancy.service