python-magichue 0.2.6

A library to interface with Magichue(or Magichome)

python-magichue

Magichue(as known as Magichome) is a cheap smart led bulb that you can controll hue/saturation/brightnes and power over WiFi. They are available at Amazon or other online web shop.

I tested this library with this bulb.

Example

Rainbow cross-fade.

import time
import magichue


light = magichue.Light('192.168.0.20')  # change address
if not light.on:
    light.on = True

if light.is_white:
  light.is_white = False

light.rgb = (255, 255, 255)

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

Installation

$ pip install python-magichue

Usage

import magichue.

import magichue
light = magichue.Light('192.168.0.20')

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)

or access individually.

print(light.r)
print(light.g)
print(light.b)

Warm White bulb

Magichue has a two types of leds. One is rgb led and the other is warm white led. To use warm white led, do as following.

light.is_white = True
# light.is_white = False  # This disables warm white led.

If warm white is enabled, you can't change color of bulb! So, you need to execute light.is_white = False before changing color.

Setting color

By rgb

light.rgb = (128, 0, 32)

or

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

By hsb

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

hue, saturation are float value from 0 to 1. brightness is a integer value from 0 to 255. These variables are also readable.

Note about stripe bulb

Stripe bulb doesn't seem to allow jump to another color when you change color. To disable fading effect,

light.rgb = (128, 0, 20)  # It fades
light.allow_fading = False  # True by default
light.rgb = (20, 0, 128)  # Jumps

Changing mode

Magichue blub has a built-in flash patterns.

To check current mode, just

print(light.mode_str)  # string name of mode
print(light.mode)  # integer value

and changing modes,

light.mode = magichue.RAINBOW_CROSSFADE

These are built-in modes.

RAINBOW_CROSSFADE
RED_GRADUALLY
GREEN_GRADUALLY
BLUE_GRADUALLY
YELLOW_GRADUALLY
BLUE_GREEN_GRADUALLY
PURPLE_GRADUALLY
WHITE_GRADUALLY
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 mode

speed is a float value from 0 to 1.

print(light.speed)

light.speed = 0.5  # set speed to 50%

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(tuple or list) which has less than 17 length.

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 = mypattern

Other features are in development.