Plugin Request: Philips Hue (or LIFX)

[trk2]

I'm hoping to spur someone's motivation to develop this plugin since the pinnacle of my programming skills was setting the VCR clock.

I would really enjoy a Sage plugin that would take advantage of the Philips Hue to control lighting while using Sage. If anyone is unfamiliar with the Hue, it's a wifi controlled LED lightbulb that screws into a standard light bulb socket. The bulb's color and intensity can then be controlled/adjusted, and the system allows a total of 50 bulbs to be controlled independently.

Ideally the plugin would automatically adjust the lighting with user controlled setpoint depending upon the activity in sage. Playing a movie would be one activity, another for browsing a menu, another for pause, listening to music etc... I think everyone can imagine how nice this would be for a home theater system. It would also be nice to have selectable 'themes' that would override the automatic settings for times you don't want automatic control. For example a dinner theme, sports theme, blue, daytime, rain, spooky etc...

Anyway, I hope this idea excites someone to take on this project. I don't own a Hue (it's expensive but on par with Hometheater costs), but I would purchase the system if this plugin became available. I do know that Philips has made available the HUE API to encourage apps and plugins to be developed. And if someone prefers, or is aware of any advantages, I would be happy with the same plugin for LIFX which is the crowd-funded competitor to Hue that launches in September.

If anyone else has ideas for this plugin please share them.

[wayner]

It isn't directly what you are asking for but recent Harmony remotes like the SmartControl and Ultimate can control a Philips Hue, as well as SageTV and everything else in your Home Theater setup. These remotes can be controlled from a physical remote or from your Smartphone/tablet.