Mr-Groch / ambihue

ON/OFF Abilight+Hue (Switch) component for Philips Ambilight TV's

Philips TV Ambilight+Hue (Switch) Component

A Switch component for automating the control of the Ambilight+hue setting on a Philips TV, this reveals the current status of the menu setting to Home Assistant, and allows for remote or automated toggling.

Forked from not maintained for a long time jomwell's repo: https://github.com/jomwells/ambihue

Installation

Using HACS (recommended)

This integration can be installed using HACS. To do it search for Philips Ambilight+Hue Switch in Integrations section.

Manual

1. Using the tool of choice open the directory (folder) for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
2. If you do not have a custom_components directory (folder) there, you need to create it.
3. In the custom_components directory (folder) create a new folder called philips_ambilight_hue.
4. Download all the files from the custom_components/philips_ambilight_hue/ directory (folder) in this repository.
5. Place the files you downloaded in the new directory (folder) you created.
6. Restart Home Assistant.
7. Configure custom component using Config Flow UI.

Configuration

After installation of the custom component, it needs to be added using Config Flow UI.

To configure this integration go to: Configuration -> Integrations -> Add integration -> Philips TV Ambilight+Hue.

You can also use following My Home Assistant link

Configuration steps are similar to official Philips TV integration, so if you need help look here.

note: there is often a noticeable lag between Home Assistant sending the request to toggle the setting, and receiving a status update from the API.