Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
by Mister_Snuggles on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:28PM
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The Hue Bridge can do #1 on its own, but I don't think it's exposed with the stock app. You can set up a sunrise/sunset trigger based on your geographical location - I use this to turn my outside lights on and off.
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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
by vollmond on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:40PM
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I'll have to dig into that. Is it one of the Labs plugins? I certainly don't mind cutting out extra services where I can.
Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
by Mister_Snuggles on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @09:19PM
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I did it manually, using the debug web page[0] on the bridge to set up the "light sensor"[1], which is really a calculation of sunrise and sunset based on your location.
It takes a few hoops to get the bridge to generate a username and craft the appropriate JSON to set everything up, but Philips has really good documentation on this.
[0] https://developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26782957/how-to-use-suns...