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A bridge for mapping and transfer of standard 433 MHz RF remote control transmitters to Philips Hue system.
It is not easy to find wallswitches for Philips Hue yet and the system thinking is limited to one persons use of a smartphone to control the lights. When that one person leaves the house, all lights may go out. Neither shall someone coming home not change the lights for those already at home.
We are planning to use Philips Hue and Philips LivingWhites for the whole house beginning with the studios and the kitchen.
These Hue bulbs are the first lightning solution that allows us to get the right color temperature for the right moments and working conditions.
The new kitchen does not have to have colored accents, only white in different shades and then Hue bulbs setting the scene. Hue bulbs also give the right work light in the studio. Before it was not possible to see some shades when working with fine craftmanship or delicate electronics.
The idea is to use commercially available componenents like Tellstick Duo or Tellstick Net from Telldus Technologies
to capture transmissions from inexpensive RF wireless wall transmitters, an Arduino or RaspberryPi to map transmissions from the wall transmitters like Nexa Pro WT-1 or WT-2 below:
An dual wall switch equals four buttons, one off and three for three fixed lightning scenes. Or one off and one to toggle between different lightning scenes and two to change brightness etc.
The new bridge will have a table linking switch pressings to one or more lightning scenes already defined in the Philips Hue bridge. These scenes will be defined, changed and stored in the Hue bridge with the standard method of Philips Hue: a computer, a tablet or a smartphone.
Goal:
- Each room in the house may have a wallswitch(es) for local control of the light setting.
- There shall also be wallswithes for setting global light settings for the whole house while leaving or coming home, for evening, night, day, going to bed etc.
- When one person leaves the house, all lights may go out if it is the last person but not immediately.
- Some person coming home shall not change the lights for those already at home.
- There should be light settings for the house even if only the dog or cat is home.
- The many possibilities within Philips Hue command set shall be possible to address in a smooth manner and integration with IFTTT etc shall be as seamless as possible.
- If it is possible to use Philips Living Colours and Philips Living Whites remotes to add functionality, it is good.
Links:
Philips Hue development community
Nexa wireless wall transmitters