hue-lights-exporter

A Prometheus exporter for the Philips Hue Bridge Lights, written in Go.

Instalation

From binaries

hue-lights-exporter requires Go 1.11+.

go get github.com/ramaro/hue-lights-exporter

Usage

$ hue-lights-exporter -help
Usage of ./hue-lights-exporter:
  -bridge-url string
        url of the Hue bridge device (default "http://philips-hue")
  -listen-address string
        set HTTP listen address (default ":9100")
  -metrics-path string
        set metrics path (default "/metrics")
  -username string
        set authorised API username

Running

$ hue-lights-exporter -username VBYPKZXBqwcLCSdzj5yLW1gjK2fb9XCOSxQ1dP7B

Metrics

Creating an authorised Hue Bridge API username (example)

Register with curl command:

$ curl -X POST -d '{"devicetype":"my app name#my_username"}' http://philips-hue/api
[{"error":{"type":101,"address":"","description":"link button not pressed"}}]

Then press hue bridge link button and run curl again:

$ curl -X POST -d '{"devicetype":"my app name#my_username"}' http://philips-hue/api
[{"success":{"username":"VBYPKZXBqwcLCSdzj5yLW1gjK2fb9XCOSxQ1dP7B"}}]

Username is: VBYPKZXBqwcLCSdzj5yLW1gjK2fb9XCOSxQ1dP7B

Contributing

Bug reports and features are welcome!