HelloHue for Plex and Philips Hue

Control your Philips Hue lights via Plex!

Credits
This Channel is based on PlexWink by @vanstinator.

Behavior

This channel detects when a media is playing, paused or stopped on your Plex Clients. Then it checks if it's a video, the client name, and the user who owns the stream. If it matches your criteria it triggers your lights with the actions you have set up.
You can also turn your lights on and off inside the channel.

Configuration

The config is pretty simple and only needs to be done once.

• Philips Hue Bridge Address is the ip address of your Philips Bridge
• Name of the lights to trigger is the list of lights that will be affected by the channel
• Plex.tv login is your Plex login.
• Plex.tv passwords is your Plex password. It is only sent to plex.tv to get an identification token (so you must have a working internet access).
• Plex Server Address is the local adress to reach your server.
• Name of the users able to trigger You can find the list of users in PMS -> settings -> users -> myhome
• Name of plex clients able to trigger You can find the list of users in PMS -> settings -> devices

Usage

How to install:

• go to Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/
• If existing, delete HelloHue.bundle
• get the release you want from https://github.com/ledge74/HelloHue/releases
• unzip the release
• restart your plex media server!!!
• more indepth: see article on Plex website.

On first run:

1. Configure your Channel preferences (see above for help, make sure that you are connected to the internet as the channel will request a token from plex.tv)
2. Go to the channel (on any device)
3. If you see, Press button and your bridge and click to connect click on this menu AFTER having pressed the physical button of your bridge.
4. The click on Advanced --> Restart HelloHue
5. If you see the menu My Lights then you are all good!
6. Enjoy :)

Use the channel:

• My Lights allows you to trigger your lights from the channel
• Enable HelloHue disable the channel (stop listening to items being played)
• Disable HelloHue resumes the channel (start listening to items being played)
• Restart HelloHue takes into account your new Plex.TV login/password if you updated it in the channel settings.

How to report a bug and ask for features

If you have a problem with this channel, raise an issue on GitHub. Don't forget to add a Log file of this channel : https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250417-Plex-Media-Server-Log-Files

Known issues

• When stopping a media on PHT (for mac), the action will take some time (a few minutes). This is linked to a bug in PHT or PMS.
• If two or more authorized clients play a media at the same time, the "reset" function will not work properly-