This repo is archived.

It probably no longer works as IKEA API changed over the time. The world is a different place than 7 years ago and it's rather easy to add one bulb to another brand's hub, or to build a custom stuff with Home Assistant and so on.

Huëfri

A simple software bridge to unify IKEA Trådfri and Philips Hue lights.

Did you thought how nice it would be to control Philips Hue bulbs with IKEA Trådfri remote, or vice versa? This small bridge makes it possible.

All operations of the remote are supported: on/off, brightness level, change of white light temperature. Once the master Trådfri bulb changes its state, the Hue bulbs are set to the same temperature/brightness and if you change the master Hue bulb, all configure Trådfri bulbs change its state too.

For the Hue -> Trådfri synchronisation of color, only three specific colors are supported. If you set up any other, only brightness will be propagated. See COLORS_MAP for those colors (and change them if you want).

In case of Trådfri -> Hue, as long as you use the three default colors, Hue will be synced. If you manually set some other color, only brightness is propagated.

How it works

You press a button on an IKEA remote. The paired Trådfri bulb changes its light and within one second, all other configured Hue bulbs changes too.

It is far from ideal, but until IKEA provides us with a way how to subscribe to events on a remote, all we can do is to watch Trådfri bulbs and repeat any change on other bublbs. The same approach is used also for the opposite way, from Hue to Trådfri.

Right now, this project supports only dual 1:N pairing. That means, it can watch only one Trådfri bulb (and remote) and propagate to N Hue bulbs, and 1 Hue bulb to N Trådfri.

Required HW

• Hue bridge
• Hue bulbs
• Trådfri gate
• Trådfri bulbs
• A remote (Trådfri, Hue, ...)

Note: I have only Color Ambiance Hue bulbs. If White Ambiance bulbs won't work out of box, I will welcome any patch!

Dependencies

• Python 3
• qhue version 1.x
• pytradfri version 4.x

Instalation

1. Get all HW working on its own.
2. Install dependencies (see the project sites).
3. Create a config.json file in the same directory as huefri.py is. See bellow for a template.
4. Just run python3 huefri.py

Configuration

This is a template for config.json file that has to be located next to huefri.py.

{
"hue":{
	"addr":"ADDR",
	"secret": "SECRET",
	"controlled": [LIST,OF,HUE,LIGHTS,TO,CONTROL (indexed from 1) ]
	"main": WATCHED HUE BULB (indexed from 1)
	},
"tradfri":{
	"addr": "ADDR",
	"secret": "SECRET",
	"controlled": [LIST,OF,TRADFRI,LIGHTS,TO,CONTROL (indexed from 0) ]
	"main": WATCHED TRADFRI BULB (indexed from 0)
	}
}

To get the Hue secret code, you can use for example phue project:

from phue import Bridge

b = Bridge('ip_of_your_bridge')

# Press the button on the bridge and call connect() 
# within 30 seconds (this only needs to be run a single time).
# The secret will be saved into HOME_DIR/.python_hue file.
b.connect()

For Tradfri secret code (16 characters long string), look at pytradfri readme. (This is a temporary hotfix after IKEA and pytradfri changed API. Proper changes coming.)

Use as a library

You can use this project as library too:

from huefri.hue import Hue
from huefri.tradfri import Tradfri

# Both objects needs a reference of the other one.
# The ordr doesn't matter.
# Config is loaded automatically from the config file when using autoinit.
hue = Hue.autoinit()
tradfri = Tradfri.autoinit(hue)
hue.set_tradfri(tradfri)

# All lights are at your service. :-)

Development

If you want to submit a pull request, please, test your changes: python3 unittests.py, or/and add relevant new tests.