Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?

2013-06-10 Thread pomatomus
Marsupial wrote: > thanks for reporting out pomatomus! > > Can we actually control on/off in addition to coloration trough the > network? These could be a very good addition to many applications I can > think of... I'm no coder, but it certainly looks very flexible - the API is published and it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?

2013-06-10 Thread Marsupial
thanks for reporting out pomatomus! Can we actually control on/off in addition to coloration trough the network? These could be a very good addition to many applications I can think of... Marsupial's Profile: http://forums

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?

2013-06-10 Thread SlimChances
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Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?

2013-06-10 Thread pomatomus
mikerob wrote: > There's a review of them here, and this mentions there can be a 20-30sec > delay before the lights respond to a command. > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/04/philips_hue_review/ > > So it doesn't look like it would be possible to get the lights flashing > in time to the mus

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?

2013-06-07 Thread Marsupial
The phillips bulbs might not be adequate, but there are certainly other alternatives. using microcontroller & computer software might do the trick to change RGB led string to follow beat, something in the lines of what they do with TV images http://learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-light

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?

2013-06-07 Thread mikerob
There's a review of them here, and this mentions there can be a 20-30sec delay before the lights respond to a command. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/04/philips_hue_review/ So it doesn't look like it would be possible to get the lights flashing in time to the music, but some sort of "mood"

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Philips Hue bulbs - plugin to sync them to music via LMS?

2013-06-06 Thread pomatomus
Just got a starter set of Philips Hue bulbs, and I'm wondering if anyone is giving thought to writing a plugin to make them work with squeezebox/lms. There's various android and ipod apps available (Philips own app, Ambify for light/music sync, probably more), as well as homebrewed windows clients