This program is written to control a Philips Hue RGB light bulb with a Loxone miniserver.
Loxone has program function blocks where picoc code gets interpreted.
- Loxone miniserver admin access
- Philips Hue Bridge access
- In the top ribbon when on your rooms page: Function block -> General -> Program
- Double click the new block to open the program field
- Paste the content of program.picoc in the field
- OK to close
Following the guide available on https://developers.meethue.com/develop/get-started-2/
- open
https://<bridge ip address>/debug/clip.html - press the link button on the bridge
- send POST command to
/apiwith body{"devicetype":"my_hue_app#loxone"} - save the "username" to use later
Following the guide available on https://www.loxone.com/enen/kb/virtual-inputs-outputs/
- Select "virtual outputs" in the miniserver section of devices
- On the ribbon the section "virtual outputs" is activated
- Select "virtual output" to create a new one
- Give it a name and set
http://<bridge ip address>as address
- In the top ribbon you can select "virtual output command" when sellecting the previously created output
- Give a name
- At "Command for ON" you give the path for the command
/api/<username frome before>/lights/<number of the light>/state - HTTP Body for ON is the value "
<v>" which will be filled in with the value the program creates - HTTP Method is
PUT
- Connect the desired input to the application blocks I1 input (eg. lightning control block)
- Connect the output txt1 to the Virtual Output Command
- Save and test
The following sources helped building this script and can be used as reference: