![image.png](https://cdn.utopian.io/posts/b8a13897577553a6cd52360ef74a47ae1631image.png)

With this new update it is possible to blink a Philips Hue Lamp, new Upvotes will light up the lamp in green, and new Followers in blue, and on new Posts it will blink with red light.

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![image.png](https://cdn.utopian.io/posts/f3b5816a1758fdb07326ba8e19650dfb0addimage.png)

[The Philips Hue](www.meethue.com/Hue) system works with a bridge that connects the lamps to your home network, beside controlling the lights with a app, the bridge can be send put, post, get commands, to be able to send and execute those commands a authorized user ID  need to be created with the CLIP API Tool on your Bridge, this can be done by following [this tutorial](https://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started) from Philips. Once the authorized user is created, the Bridge IP and ID can be copied and saved into the Blinkit interface and used to blink the Philips Hue light on new Upvotes, Followers and Posts.

## Added Features:

### Philips Hue integration for Blinkit
- Set/save IP of the Philips Hue Bridge (find the IP in the Philips Hue, Android or IOS app)
- Set/save the ID for the authorized user 
- Set/save Blinklenght (0-11 seconds)
- Buttons to turn on and off, and blink the lights
- Buttons to start the upvotes, followers, posts script
- Blink Length slider
- [Readme ](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-04c6e90faac2675aa89e2176d2eec7d8)is updated with information about how to get the Authorized user ID 
- Added [Upvotes](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-e9fd24b8ddb7102a7de323537cf3da97), [Follower](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-51f0c1d4be911e9f4117ef35056e9329)s, [Posts](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-5bae633d3a4466f7e85b54fe9347651d) scripts that turn the light on in [Green](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-4c88fef2d13433f2b58e71eaa98eaf38), [Blue](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-8828a60af3bea5da8aef2f84acf112f9) or [Red](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-6750ab0b4b8a0492897e6c96eed3e5f8)  
- Added settings files for the Philips Hue [bridge IP](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-203b2b8298b365b91db8e694c3605aa5) and authorized [user ID](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-dd7011f2954cf4fba0274c5eefc67eab), and [blink length](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-236b49e996a9be48efedd8f87307ffcf)
- Added [blinkphilipshue.bat](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-91802323f2060a46f0b46736d101ad4a) 
- Added [philipshuegreen.exe](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-88b1a4bafa98ec3166b79a17bcbb89e5)  [philipshueblue.exe](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-63afe5f6dce58e1e87cf28f4ed674c89)  [philipshuered.exe](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-694effcdf636f5b75b9955a15f7f3a88) and [philipshueoff.exe](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-43c2a78aba2d5549fa4d072ca4ef720c)
The executables make a put command to the Bridge and are made as well with VB.net:

``` language
Public Class Form1


    Dim lampstatus As String = "true"
    Dim IP As String = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C:\blinkit\config\philipshueip.txt")
    Dim ID As String = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C:\blinkit\config\philipshueid.txt")
    Dim colour As String = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("C:\blinkit\config\philipshuegreen.txt")
    Dim lamp As String = 1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        Dim result As String
        Dim MyURL As String, postData As String
        Dim winHttpReq As Object
        winHttpReq = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
        MyURL = "http://" & IP & "/api/" & ID & "/lights/" & lamp & "/state"

        postData = "{""on"": " & lampstatus & " " & colour & " }"
        winHttpReq.Open("PUT", MyURL, False)
        winHttpReq.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
        winHttpReq.Send(postData)

        result = winHttpReq.ResponseText


        Close()
    End Sub
End Class
```

The above script is made in Visual Basic and used to build the .EXE files, the executable will use the saved Philips Hue settings: IP, ID and Colour to make PUT requests to the Philips Hue Bridge .  The  script is added into a [text file](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c#diff-6af070f34500bbe727452f31d2123ce9) next to the related executables, for me and others to tweak and reuse. 
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### User Interface 
- Sound module is resized
- Philips Hue module, next to the Sonoff module

Now with the new Philips Hue, and the previously added Sonoff Module, The interface is again getting a bit full, and to have maximum space for the improvements of already available and future features, the interface would need a redesign, and this will be my next point to focus on.

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### Suggestions are always welcome

- Interface ideas and examples
- What Smart lamps do you have and want to see added to Blinkit?
- What features do you want to see added ?


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The following repositories are updated:

### Blinkit VB .net source files
 
[Github commit](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit-vb.net/commit/a984592f228830fb815cec92a971525e56cd050f)

### Blinkit software 
[Github Commit ](https://github.com/techtek/Blinkit/commit/b805e317fe88355c6c17f2467e76f4e8dc3a968c)

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