magichue 0.2.9.2

A library to interface with MagicHue aka MagicHome.

python-magichue

MagicHue (aka MagicHome) is a cheap smart led bulb that you can control hue/saturation/brightness and power over WiFi. They are available at Amazon or other online web shop.

I tested this library with RGB+WW+CW(v7), RGB(v8), RGB+WW(v8) bulbs.

Example

Rainbow cross-fade.

import time
import magichue


light = magichue.Light('192.168.0.20')  # change to your address

light.on = True
light.is_white = False
light.saturation = 1
light.brightness = 255

for hue in range(1000):
    light.hue = hue / 1000
    time.sleep(0.05)

Installation

$ pip install magichue

Usage

import magichue.

import magichue

light = magichue.Light('192.168.0.20')

Discover Bulbs on LAN

from magichue import discover_bulbs

print(discover_bulbs())  # returns a list of bulb addresses

Power State

Getting Power Status

print(light.on)  # => True if light is on else False

Setting Light On/Off

light.on = True
light.on = False

Getting Color

This shows a tuple of current RGB:

print(light.rgb)  # (255, 127, 63)

or access individually:

print(light.r)  # 255
print(light.g)  # 127
print(light.b)  # 63

White LEDs

If your bulbs support white LEDs, you can change the brightness (0-255) of white LEDs.

Enable the white led:

light.is_white = True

If white led is enabled, you can't change color of bulb!
You will need to disable it before you can change the color.

Disable the white led:

light.is_white = False

Warm White (ww)

light.cw = 0
light.w = 255

Cold White (cw)

light.w = 0
light.cw = 255

Setting Color

Red, Green, Blue (RGB)

Assign all colors with a tuple of integers:

light.rgb = (128, 0, 32)

or assign each color individually with an integer:

light.r = 200
light.g = 0
light.b = 32

Hue, Saturation, Brightness (HSB)

Hue and saturation are float values from 0 to 1.
Brightness is a integer value from 0 to 255.

light.hue = 0.3
light.saturation = 0.6
light.brightness = 255

Note About Stripe Bulb

Stripe bulb doesn't seem to allow jumping to another color when you change color.

To disable the fading effect,

light.rgb = (128, 0, 20)    # Fades to set color
light.allow_fading = False  # Set to True by default
light.rgb = (20, 0, 128)    # Jumps to set color

Changing Modes

MagicHue bulb has built-in patterns.

Check current mode:

print(light.mode)           # <Mode: NORMAL>
print(light.mode.name)      # 'NORMAL'
print(light.mode.value)     # 97

Set current mode:

light.mode = magichue.RAINBOW_CROSSFADE

These are the built-in modes:

RED_GRADUALLY
GREEN_GRADUALLY
BLUE_GRADUALLY
YELLOW_GRADUALLY
PURPLE_GRADUALLY
WHITE_GRADUALLY
BLUE_GREEN_GRADUALLY

RAINBOW_CROSSFADE
RED_GREEN_CROSSFADE
RED_BLUE_CROSSFADE
GREEN_BLUE_CROSSFADE

RAINBOW_STROBE
GREEN_STROBE
BLUE_STROBE
YELLOW_STROBE
BLUE_GREEN_STROBE
PURPLE_STROBE
WHITE_STROBE

RAINBOW_FLASH
NORMAL

Changing The Speed of a Mode

The instance member speed is a float value from 0 to 1:

light.speed = 0.5  # set speed to 50%

Creating Custom Modes

You can create custom light flash patterns.

Mode:

MODE_JUMP
MODE_GRADUALLY
MODE_STROBE

Speed: A float value 0 to 1.
Colors: A list of RGB tuples. Max length of 17 tuples.

from magichue import (
    CustomMode,
    MODE_JUMP,
)


# Creating Mode
mypattern1 = CustomMode(
    mode=MODE_JUMP,
    speed=0.5,
    colors=[
        (128, 0, 32),
        (100, 20, 0),
        (30, 30, 100),
        (0, 0, 50)
    ]
)

# Apply Mode
light.mode = mypattern1

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Other features are in development.