MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!

[michael5r]

@craig859 said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

Even after using Hue Developer to access the API debug/clip.html and generate a user string the Magic Mirror displays “please add your hue bridge IP and user to MagicMirror config.js file.”
Has anyone seen anything new on this? Is there a change in the authentication for Hue, maybe something that broke this module?

There shouldn’t be - the Hue API hasn’t been updated in a long time, and both my mirrors are running just fine with this module.

[michael5r]

@Cain said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

i also found that i had to change folder name from

MMM-Hue-Lights to mmm-hue-lights - not sure why but i did.

After the 10mintues when it stops workings. can you then access the debug using the website? Only when the error occurs.

also have you done the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get full-upgrade ?

The folder should be mmm-hue-lights - it’s case-sensitive, so MMM-Hue-Lights wouldn’t work.

[michael5r]

@jasim said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

I installed mmm-hue-lights by default and get the following error message after 5 minutes. Hue API ERROR: Error: Read ECONNRESET. I ask for help with this problem. I’ve already reinstalled everything and it doesn’t help.

Have you tried changing the updateInterval setting to be a higher number than the default? I would suggest trying 10 mins - eg. setting it to 600000

[michael5r]

I’ve released a new 1.4.0 version of this module that will hopefully help with the refresh issue - it now automatically reschedules an update, no matter whether there’s an error or not. Thanks to @ulrichwisser for pushing this fix.

Please download the version and see if that solves your issues.

[jasim]

I updated the module and tested it for several hours. The module fails after 45 - 60 minutes (API ERROR) and no longer works.
And not only that, the entire mirror no longer works.
After removing the module from the mirror, the mirror works again.

[michael5r]

@jasim said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

I updated the module and tested it for several hours. The module fails after 45 - 60 minutes (API ERROR) and no longer works.
And not only that, the entire mirror no longer works.
After removing the module from the mirror, the mirror works again.

Can you try running your mirror in dev mode and post some logs?

[jasim]

@michael5r said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

@jasim said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

I updated the module and tested it for several hours. The module fails after 45 - 60 minutes (API ERROR) and no longer works.
And not only that, the entire mirror no longer works.
After removing the module from the mirror, the mirror works again.

Can you try running your mirror in dev mode and post some logs?

Would you tell me what to do, I am a layperson and not a professional.

[michael5r]

@jasim said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

@michael5r said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

@jasim said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

I updated the module and tested it for several hours. The module fails after 45 - 60 minutes (API ERROR) and no longer works.
And not only that, the entire mirror no longer works.
After removing the module from the mirror, the mirror works again.

Can you try running your mirror in dev mode and post some logs?

Would you tell me what to do, I am a layperson and not a professional.

Instead of running npm run start in your Magic Mirror folder to start the mirror, try running npm start dev which will open a browser console next to your mirror instance. Then look for any errors (marked in red) in there.

[jasim]

@michael5r said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

npm start dev

[michael5r]

@jasim You need to be in the folder of your Magic Mirror installation when you run these commands.

[jasim]

@michael5r said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

npm start dev

[michael5r]

@jasim You already have another instance of Magic Mirror running (that’s the EADDRINUSE error) - you’ll need to stop that before running npm start dev. How do you normally start/stop your mirror?

[jasim]

Ich starte den Spiegel automatisch wenn der pi hochfährt.
Wie stoppe ich EADDRINUSE Fehler.

[michael5r]

@jasim Yeah, but you must have set it up at some time - for instance, I use pm2 on my mirrors, so I can do pm2 stop mm to stop my magic mirror instance.

[jasim]

Was soll ich machen ?

[michael5r]

@jasim Sorry, I don’t speak German - can you please post in english?

[jasim]

@jasim said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

Was soll ich machen?

Sorry, what should I do?

[fordi]

@michael5r You have just made my day. After messing about for the best part of a day trying to get the module working, your post has made this module spring to life! I installed via Magic Mirror Package Manager and the folder name had upper and lower case naming. Im going to get a beer now!! lol…

[Feedy88]

Hey guys,

first off, great module @michael5r, thanks a lot. Unfortunately I have issues getting it to work as soon as I use the displayFilter attribute. Using the default works perfectly fine and shows all my lights. As soon as I only have one specific light in the displayFilter-array, I can only see “Loading…” on my mirror. Config looks fine (below) and logs are identical with default and specified.

Side Note: The light I am calling is “Kugel” which is not an original Hue but Ikea Tradfri. Additionally I have other lights called “Kugel 30er” “Kugel 40er” and “Kugel 60er”. Could this be the source of failure?

Works:

Doesn’t work:

Thanks for help in advance.

[nick95cookie]

I set this up and everything was working wonderfully. I shut down my pi and installed it into my frame with the same screen and now this module is not working but nothing has changed. It loads but I cannot see the module on my MM screen