openhue

What This Skill Does

The openhue skill acts as a command-line interface (CLI) wrapper for your Philips Hue smart home ecosystem. It bridges the gap between your AI agent and your local lighting hardware, allowing for granular control over brightness, color temperature, color values, and scene activation. By communicating directly with your Hue Bridge, it provides a reliable, local-first method to manage ambient lighting across individual bulbs, rooms, or zones within your home.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw management utility. Run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/openclaw/skills/openhue

After installation, ensure your Hue Bridge is powered on and connected to the same local network as your agent. Upon your first request, the skill may require you to press the physical link button on your Hue Bridge to authorize the connection and exchange security tokens.

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for users who want to automate their physical environment. You can use it to set morning routines where lights gradually brighten to simulate dawn, or trigger "movie mode" scenes that dim lights to specific levels. It is particularly effective for managing large numbers of lights by targeting entire rooms or zones at once, removing the need to manage individual bulb states manually.

Example Prompts

1. "Hey, set the bedroom lights to a warm color temperature and dim them to 20% for my bedtime routine."
2. "Activate the 'Concentrate' scene in the home office because I need to finish some documentation."
3. "Turn off all the lights in the living room and hallway; I'm heading out for the day."

Tips & Limitations

For optimal performance, ensure your Hue Bridge has a static IP reservation on your router. Remember that color manipulation commands will only work on bulbs that support full RGB spectra; standard white-only bulbs will ignore color requests. This skill does not support non-Hue smart devices, and it relies strictly on local network connectivity. Do not use this skill for critical safety systems or non-Hue hardware, as it is purpose-built for the Philips ecosystem. If you encounter issues, verify that your API credentials have not expired and that the Bridge is reachable.