- Have Ruby.
- Do not be without Ruby.
- Clone the repo down into a folder -- location doesn't matter.
- Be on the network you want to monitor.
- Update the IPs, colors etc.
- Have Philips Hue.
- Plug in the hub, configure all the things via the mobile App, etc.
- Change the ID in the script to whatever your new lightbulb IDs are.
- Run the script.
It's really easy. The code base is small. The time put into this was minimal. Overall cost was probably just under $200.00. Time was like... 15 minutes.
Useful resources:
- Hue docs: http://developers.meethue.com/index.html
- Hub IP: https://www.meethue.com/api/nupnp
- http://YOURIP/debug/clip.html
Ok, me and the guys were rambling one day -- the internet was slow. Then it was down. Then it was slow. Then for 5 seconds it was cool. Then it went down again.
Our ISP overlords are cool.
Anyway -- I didn't want to keep checking if I could do work. We talked about ideas, auto notification scripts, etc.
Really we just wanted something visual.
Soooo I wrote this.
