I dug around in my Box O Junk™️ and found my old phillips hue bridge and bulbs. I had played around with the hue before but never jumped into anything on the developer side before.

After setting it back up in my apartment I decided to try and use Tom’s setup guide to start devving on my hue bridge.

I started off by going to the debugger and I got this response when trying to make a new developer.

Nice!

But I guess that was expected. I am unauthorized 😤

Okay lets fix that.

First we make me a username. To do that we need to name a device type so the Hue knows who is trying to make the request.

Let’s send a POST request.

Nice! So that didn’t work because I didn’t press the button.

What I like about this whole process is that the error descriptions make sense.

okay okay now ill press the button for real this time.

Hey it works!!

Okay next up I want to be able to control it via p5. For this I’m going to use Tom’s Repo with a simple p5 example.

Okay that was fun - let’s try and use it on a different platform