huetui 0.1

A TUI for Philips Hue

hue-tui

A tui for Philips Hue

About

hue-tui is a tui (Terminal User Interface) that allows for easy control of your Philips Hue lights. It uses my Hue-API library to communicate with the bridge.

Installation

Install hue-tui with:

pip install hue-tui

This should fetch all the necesary dependencies. Nevertheless, make sure that all dependencies are installed.

Launch hui-tui by typing huetui into your terminal.

Should you get the error command not found: huetui, check that $HOME/.local/bin is in your $PATH. This can be done by adding export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" to your .bashrc/.zshrc.

Dependencies

• python3
• hue-snek (pip install hue-snek-channel42)
• py_cui (pip install py-cui)

Using hue-tui

Using hue-tui is easy:

To navigate the different modules use your arrow keys. You'll see your cursor move to the bottom right of the modules, which shows you which module is selected.
Enter a module by pressing enter. The selected option will be in bold. Use your arrow keys to navigate inside the module.
Once inside a module, press enter to execute an action (e.g. toggle a light).
To exit a module press ESC. To quit the programm simply press q while in the main overview (i.e. not inside a module).

Progress

Done:

• toggle individual lights
• toggle individual groups
• enable a scene for a group
• display bridge information
• ASCII banner
• indicate active lights, groups, scenes
• create automated setup process for bridge information (inital setup function)
• simplify installation process

TODO:

• add vim key-bindings for navigating the UI