michielpost / HueLightDJ

Hue Light DJ using Hue Entertainment API

HueLightDJ

Hue Light DJ using Hue Entertainment API

LIVE DEMO

NOTE: You can't use this demo to connect to your own bridge. But you can use the DEMO GROUP to view a demo/simulation.

Click Start under Demo Group, then click Connect
DEMO: https://huelightdj.azurewebsites.net/

What is it?

This web app connects to a Philips Hue Bridge over the local network. It uses the Hue Entertainment API to update the lights almost instantly. Hue Light DJ is meant for setups with 20+ Hue Lights. You can also use this for your personal setup with less than 5 lights, but things get interesting with 10+ lights, you can try it out. There is also a DEMO mode build in so you see how it would look like on a 20+ light setup.

NOTE: Hue Entertainment supports max 20 lights in an Entertainment Group using the v2 API. To get this to work with more than 20 addressable lights, you need to have 1 bridge for every 20 lights. A led strip contains more than 1 addressable light (for example 3 or 5).

Demo with 32 Hue Light Strips on 5 bridges

Features

• Comes with a lot of build in effects
• BPM input to specify speed of effects
• Preview window, to see the result of the effects
• Random mode, runs a random effect on a random group
• Auto mode (Party Mode), starts a new random effect every 6 seconds
• Build in groups like front/back, left/right
• Random group, creates a new random group every time
• Touch effect, click or touch the preview area to start an effect from that position
• Brightness Slider to control overall brightness
• DEMO mode, to test the app without a Hue Bridge
• Connect to multiple Hue Bridges at the same time to control more than 20 lights
• Bridge API key is stored in the browser's local storage

Tech

• ASP.Net Core 7.0 backend
• SignalR for realtime communication from server to client
• gRPC for client to server communication
• HueApi for communicating with the Hue Bridge
• Blazor frontend
• PixiJS for WebGL preview window

Build and Install Instructions

• Make sure to have .Net 7.0 installed to build this project (dotnet build)
• Run the HueLightDJ.Web project(cd HueLightDJ.BlazorWeb\Server && dotnet run)
• Follow the instructions to link your bridge or use the DEMO setup

Docker

https://hub.docker.com/r/michielpost/huelightdj/

docker pull michielpost/huelightdj
docker run -d -p 8080:80 michielpost/huelightdj

HueLightDJ is now available on port 8080

Feature Wishlist

• Multi Bridge light location configuration (use the Hue App to configure your light positions)
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Effect Composer, try out new effects by selecting a group, IteratorMode and effect
• More build in effects
• Support for a hardware controller using WebMidi

Screenshots

Disclaimer

This app is not affiliated with the Light DJ series of light show apps by NRTHRNLIGHTS, LLC