IoT Gateway Application for Phillips Hue

Connect your Phillips Hue Bridge to Watson IoT.

• IBM Watson IoT
• Phillips Hue

Product Withdrawal Notice

Per the September 8, 2020 announcement IBM Watson IoT Platform (5900-A0N) has been withdrawn from marketing effective December 9, 2020.

Lights

Automatic Device Registration

Any new type of light connected to your Hue bridge will be auto-registered as a new device type in Watson IoT:

• id is set to the modelid reported by Hue
• deviceInfo.description is set to the type reported by Hue
• deviceInfo.manufacturer is set to the manufacturername reported by Hue
• deviceInfo.model is set to the modelid reported by Hue

Likewise, all devices connected to the bridge will be auto-registered by the gateway application:

• typeId is set to the modelid reported by Hue
• deviceId` is set to the uniqueid`` reported by Hue, with ":" replaced by "-" as the delimiter
• deviceInfo.description is set to the type reported by Hue
• deviceInfo.fwversion is set to the swversion reported by Hue
• deviceInfo.manufacturer is set to the manufacturername reported by Hue
• deviceInfo.model is set to the modelid reported by Hue

Events

State updates are published to Watson IoT every 60 seconds (althought this can easily be changed). For every light connected to your Hue bridge the gateway will relay a state event containing all the state data available from your Hue bridge:

{
  "on": true, 
  "hue": 14910, 
  "colormode": "ct", 
  "effect": "none", 
  "alert": "none", 
  "xy": [0.4596, 0.4105], 
  "reachable": true, 
  "bri": 254, 
  "ct": 369, 
  "sat": 144
}

Commands

This version of the gateway only supports publishing state events. Command control will be added in the future.