Brilliance

Brilliance

Philips Hue automation for the Mac desktop

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Brilliance brings the outside world into your home through Philips Hue lights. Set your location, choose what kind of lighting you want: sunlight, weather-based, urban lighting, northern lights, and more, set a schedule to turn the lights on and off, then sit back and enjoy your lights without having to fiddle with an app or dimmers.
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What do you think? …

Nikita Korotaev
Interesting! Would love the same for my LIFX bulbs.
John Hurliman
Maker
@nikitakorotaev you're the second person to ask so I will put it at the top of my list for a point release!
Noah Norman
@jhurliman @nikitakorotaev I took a whack at this - here's my version as a daemon - feel free to pull from it https://github.com/ancillarymagn... -- this implementation addresses some oddities of the LIFX color space, which has a floating white point, allowing pure whites when the saturation value is zero, but complicating transitions from 'white' to color and vice versa. I think it's worth doing correctly for the high quality of white light from LIFX lamps, so my version only uses saturated colors around and after sunset.
Mohammadbagher Parsa
I used to use it on Mac, extremely useful but annoying ! It wont stop dimming if you even delete the app!
John Hurliman
Maker
@mbparsa the app uses a 15 second timer for all of the transitions, could that be what you were seeing? Once the app is either put in off mode or closed you should not see any more activity from Brilliance since it needs to continuously talk to the Hue bridge to keep brightening or dimming lights.
Jeff Andersen
Any thoughts on using it with say, homekit and the new bridge, so that you don't need a mac always on the local network? I assume it just leverages the http API.
John Hurliman
Maker
@jeffandersen sounds very interesting! I need to look into this more.