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Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
Are there any third-party solutions for adding voice control to a Philips Hue system? The HomeKit base station requires iCloud Keychain syncing to be turned on, which I don't consider to be acceptable.

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Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?

Kalman posted:

Homebridge might do the trick for you (assuming you don't want to control from off the wifi network.) Requires some work to setup but it seems to work well.

https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

(don't think it requires iCloud
Keychain sync, though I do have it turned on, and don't have any Hue lights to test it with.)

This looks good, I guess there's a Raspberry Pi in my near future.

e: Actually it turns out HomeBridge requires it too. Welp.

Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Apr 7, 2016

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
I think I'm probably going to to just suck it up and blow away the Safari autofill passwords on my phone and enable iCloud syncing. I have TouchID now, so filling from 1Password every time isn't much of a hassle.

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
Is it really impossible to turn on Philips Lux bulbs without opening the app and dragging individual sliders?

ahahahahahaha

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?

Call Me Charlie posted:

Philips sells a Tap Switch or you can pair it to a third party voice assistant like Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Homekit.

Has anyone made it into the Hue 2.0 beta? Are things improved there?

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?

beefnoodle posted:

What phone OS? The official Hue app on iOS does this, you just need to set up Scenes. Open app, tap scene.

Although mainly I just tell Alexa to do it.

No, you really can't add them if you create the scene through the Scene tab, though you inspired me to cast my net a little wider and I discovered that you can if you create the scene through the Light menu. Which is sensible.

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
My Hue + HomeKit system has started turning the lights on and off at random, including at 3am. :negative:

My best guess was that my HomeKit geofencing automations are misfiring, but the lights are turning on at the wrong colour temperature for that.

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Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?
Thanks, but it’s on a vertical dock, so I’d be able to see if the screen started freaking out.

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