Installation

Requirements

Command to paste in the console

sh -c "OPT=install; $(curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/Josef-Friedrich/Hue-shell/master/install.sh)"

Using curl

curl -kL -o Hue-shell.tar.gz https://github.com/Josef-Friedrich/Hue-shell/archive/master.tar.gz
tar -xzvf Hue-shell.tar.gz
cd Hue-shell-master
sudo ./install.sh install

Using git

git clone git@github.com:Josef-Friedrich/Hue-shell.git
cd Hue-shell
sudo ./install.sh install

You need a working Philips Hue setup, the IP address of your bridge and a username to access the bridge.

Please read the informations on the Hue website how to achieve that. Now edit the file /etc/hue-shell/hue-shell.conf and fill in the values for the variables IP and USERNAME.

For some scene commands you need the ALL_LIGHTS variable. Use hue get all to retrieve the ids of your connected Hue lights and put the comma separated id list in the configuration file.

vim /etc/hue-shell/hue-shell.conf

IP="192.168.1.2"
USERNAME="yourusername"
ALL_LIGHTS="1,2,3"

This configuration file has to be written in the Shell script syntax. Because of this never put whitespaces around the equal sign. The quotation marks can be omitted.