System 7 & Philips Hue Lightbulbs

[olePigeon]

Has anyone tried controlling a Philips Hue from a vintage Mac?

Just curious.

 

[olePigeon]

By the way, if someone wrote an AfterDark module for interacting with Philip Hue, that would be one of the most awesome things ever.

 

[aladds]

Well here are the tools one would need for the module...

http://jamessignorile.com/program.html

Writing some code to poke the Philips hue bridge wouldn’t be all that hard, it’s just a REST API, which could even be implemented in raw TCP if actual HTTP is difficult. 
 

I might look into this since I’ve got a lot of modern programming experience, but back when I was using Mac OS 8/9 I was using REALBasic, which wasn’t really proper Mac programming, then or now (although I’ve not used XoJo so maybe I’m being a little unfair there!)

 

[olePigeon]

@aladds Ooo, thanks.  I'm gonna archive that software.

Edit:  Hehe.  You've lead me down a rabbit hole using Archive.org to download and archive all the 3rd party & shareware modules released for AfterDark.

 

[aladds]

I still love the flying toasters (especially with the song!)

 

[aladds]

Ok so I sat down and eventually managed to get python (1.5.2) running on my SE/30. 
 

At this point I had to make it work!

So I did. Python version this old do have their own quirks, however....



View attachment IMG_0601.MOV

 

[ants]

So I did. Python version this old do have their own quirks, however....

View attachment 30023

That is awesome!! Well done!!!  8-o

 

[olePigeon]

That is freaking sweet!