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Philips Hue

Full Hue lighting control from Q-SYS

Comprehensive Philips Hue lighting control integration for Q-SYS. Manage rooms, zones, scenes, and individual lights with auto-discovery, HTTPS bridge communication, and rate limiting.

Complete Philips Hue lighting integration for Q-SYS, giving you full control over rooms, zones, scenes, and individual devices directly from your Q-SYS design. The plugin communicates locally with your Hue Bridge over HTTPS, so there is no cloud dependency and no internet required for day-to-day operation.

Automatic discovery handles the heavy lifting during setup. Once connected to a Hue Bridge, the plugin finds and organises all your rooms, zones, scenes, and devices into auto-updating dropdown lists. From there, you can control brightness, colour, white temperature, motion sensors, and smart plugs without leaving Q-SYS.

Device Control

  • Rooms: Synchronised commands across physical spaces
  • Zones: Manage custom-defined zones spanning multiple rooms
  • Scenes: Activate pre-configured lighting scenes with per-room or per-zone filtering
  • Brightness: Intensity adjustment from 0-100%
  • Colour and White Temperature: Full colour selection and white temperature variants
  • Motion Sensors: Boolean motion detection with temperature readout
  • Smart Plugs: Power control for connected outlets

Smart Features

  • Intelligent resource discovery automatically organises rooms, zones, scenes, and devices
  • Secure HTTPS bridge communication with persistent token-based authentication
  • Real-time state feedback via configurable polling intervals
  • Smart polling optimisation that detects user interaction to balance responsiveness and network load
  • Visual connection state and command execution feedback indicators
  • Multi-page interface with purpose-built layouts for each control type
  • Request queue system that respects Hue API rate limits
  • Input debouncing to reduce unnecessary network traffic
  • All control is local via direct HTTPS bridge communication

Interface Pages

  • Setup Page: Bridge configuration, IP entry, authentication, and connection status
  • Rooms Page: Power, brightness, and colour controls per room
  • Zones Page: Zone-specific controls matching room page functionality
  • Scenes Page: Scene activation with filtering by room or zone
  • Dynamic selection dropdowns auto-update as resources are discovered

Licensing

One license key per core. Once licensed, you can use the plugin as many times as you like in your design.

Version History

  • v1: Initial release

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Setup guide

philips-hue-setup-guide.pdf
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