Hue

Small improvements - January 15, 2024

• Improve wording in readme and preferences
• Add fallback icon

Fix - November 21, 2023

• Fixed bugs
• Updated dependencies

Add plug icon - October 18, 2023

• Add an icon for a plug

Bug fixes - August 30, 2023

• Hide dimming actions when a light does not support them
• Fix bug where toggling a group on will set its brightness to the lowest possible setting
• Fix “Toggle All Lights” behaviour
• When no lights are on, all lights will turn on
• When some, but not all lights are on, the preference will be used (default: Turn all off)
• When all lights are on, all lights will turn off

Known issues

• Transition Time preference does not apply to toggling groups, as this causes the group to turn on with minimal brightness due to a bug in the Hue V2 API.

Bug fix - June 30, 2023

• Fixed a bug where the extension would not store the username/API key after linking the Hue Bridge

Connectivity update - June 22, 2023

• Connectivity
• Update Hue Bridge discovery and linking code
• Add retry action when no Hue Bridge was found
• Enable setting manual IP address and/or username (API key)
• Improve how error messages are shown when linking a Bridge
• Front end
• Use coloured squares with icons in them for lights
• Improve scene/group gradients
• Improve responsiveness when toggling groups
• Rate limit group toggle action
• Rework "Turn Off All Lights" into "Toggle All Lights"
• Turns off all lights if any are on, turns on all lights if all are off.
• Updates state in background every 10 minutes to help "stale while revalidate"

Hue Extension 2.0 - April 17, 2023

• Show groups and scenes as gradients
• Show lights as tinted icons
• Use rate limiting to improve behaviour when holding down a hotkey and to prevent rate limiting errors
• Update the UI when lights are changed by e.g. the Hue app or a physical switch
• Many improvements under the hood to improve performance, responsiveness and reliability
• Use Hue API V2: ‘Connected Lighting Interface Protocol’ or CLIP
• Connect with the Hue Bridge using TLS (HTTPS) and HTTP/2
• Use a single persistent connection to send and receive data to and from Hue bridge
• Deprecation: It is no longer possible to set/adjust the color (temperature) of a group since this is not supported by the Hue API V2. It may be added in the future with a workaround. Please use scenes or individual lights instead. You will need to re-link your Hue Bridge to use the new version.

Fixes and Enhancements - March 29, 2023

• Fix too many network requests resulting in rate limiting (429) errors
• Update dependencies
• Clean up code

Added Hue - September 10, 2022

• Add command for linking your Hue Bridge
• Add commands for controlling Hue groups, scenes and individual lights
• Add support for changing/setting brightness, color, color temperature and scenes
• Add command for turning off all lights