[Implemented] Hyperion Ambilight / JSON control

---

World be great if I can controle Hyperion with Pimatic.
Is it possible to create a Colorpicker with the follow String?

echo ‘{ “color”: [R,G,B], “command”: “color”, “priority”: 100 }’ | nc IP PORT
echo ‘{ “color”: [255,255,255], “command”: “color”, “priority”: 100 }’ | nc 192.168.1.16 19444

@slimmy said:

Is it possible to create a Colorpicker with the follow String?

Yes, this possible and I’d add it as part of pimatic-led-light. Do you also have command sequences for on, off, and dimming?

Found it: https://github.com/tvdzwan/hyperion/wiki

@mwittig said:

@slimmy said:

Is it possible to create a Colorpicker with the follow String?

Yes, this possible and I’d add it as part of pimatic-led-light. Do you also have command sequences for on, off, and dimming?

maybe, if R,G,B == 0,0,0 the LED´s are off
I’m not sure whether dimming became an own sequence or its ok if you use 255,255,255 for the full light.

I’m currently using a ShellSwitch device for a basic Ambilight control:
{
“id”: “hyperion”,
“name”: “Hyperion ambilight”,
“class”: “ShellSwitch”,
“onCommand”: “echo ‘{“command”:“effect”,“effect”:{“name”:“Full color mood blobs”},“priority”:1000}’ | nc 192.168.x.xxx 19444”,
“offCommand”: “echo ‘{“command”:“clear”,“priority”:1000}’ | nc 192.168.x.xxx 19444”,
“interval”: 0
},

Works like a charm: by using the priority it switches to the Mood Blobs when there is no image input.
It would be awesome to be able to control a bit more: it is of course possible to communicate with Hyperion via a JSON interface: https://github.com/tvdzwan/hyperion/wiki/Command-line-utility
For example: pimatic could read all available effects and present it in a selection list.

I’m currently working on an extension to the pimatic-led-light plugin (https://github.com/philip1986/pimatic-led-light) which adds support for controlling hyperion. And once this is finished i start to extend my own plugin pimatic-hap to support these led lights, so i can control my hyperion using Siri

@michbeck100 That’s great! Looking forward to your contribution.

I just saw on the Hyperion GitHub page that they also feature a Node.js hyperion-client. Maybe that makes things easier to integrate?
It’s written by Dutch domotics-hero Emile (Homey) Nijssen.
https://github.com/WeeJeWel/node-hyperion-client

@Rene-Arts Thanks for the info. That will definitely make things easier.

@michbeck100 said:

That will definitely make things easier.

Note, however, that client library appears to be still in its infancies and is lacking some of features you probably want to integrate. This may be an opportunity to contribute to this project as well.

@mwittig No, i think the library is mostly feature complete. Hyperion supports just setting the color, an effect and to clear everything, that’s it.
I checked the web-app (https://github.com/Gamadril/hyperion-remote/blob/master/src/js/app/data/ServerControl.js) and another HomeKit implementation (https://github.com/Danimal4326/homebridge-hyperion/blob/master/index.js) and all of these seem to use the color to control hue and brightness.
We’ll see. If i’m missing anything i can still send plain json .

With the hyperion-remote web app it is possible to control hue, saturation and value. These are converted to plain RGB values afaik. The available effects can be queried via JSON. Don’t forget to integrate the priority index, which works very convenient (high index is low priority) as I described earlier.
When you need testers: don’t hesitate to inform me

@Rene-Arts I think for the first try i will ignore the priority because it’s not supported by the pimatic-led-light plugin, where i’m integrating the hyperion device in. Maybe this will make to subsequent releases.

@michbeck100 You can just send a predefined (e.g. in device/plugin setting) priority for starters, nothing too fancy needed, shouldn’t be too hard I guess? To be honest, I’d guess that sending a command without priority wouldn’t even work?

edit: just looked it up, default priority is 100. No problem to work around that one

have been using hyperion with the pimatic led plugin but this was not what I was looking for.
I am just not skilled enough to create what I want:
a buttons device that calls different hyperion effects and a few color presets.
Hyperion is running on a different pi than pimatic.
Any idea how to start this?

@djmvt the hyperion Integration in pimatic-led-light doesn’t support the effects yet. This is because it’s not a standard feature, but I think it would be easily possible to add it.

I know. Had hyperion as device in pimatic led light but it doesn’t seem to work when the new hue protocol is being used. That’s why I was looking if it would be possible to call presets with a rule and dummy switches but I don’t know how to write these rules to execute this.

@djmvt
hyperion comes with a commandline-tool “hyperion-remote”. With this tool you are able to control remote your hyperion-strip. You need to install hyperion-remote on your pimatic-pi, create some buttons and some rules…

    {
      "id": "hyperion-buttons",
      "name": "Hyperion",
      "class": "ButtonsDevice",
      "buttons": [
        {
          "id": "button_hyperion_1",
          "text": "Effekt 1"
        },
        {
          "id": "button_hyperion_2",
          "text": "Effekt 2"
        }
      ]
    },

if button_hyperion_1 is pressed
then execute "hyperion-remote --address 192.168.1.234:19444 --priority 50 --color red --duration 5000

if button_hyperion_2 is pressed
then execute "hyperion-remote -a 192.168.1.234:19444 -p 50 -e Snake -d 5000

had the idea it was something like that. do I need to install the full hyperion package or is there a way to just install hyperion-remote?

thanks man, this is exactly what I want!

Just went on and installed hyperion: it works!
thanks