The goal of this project is to build a simple golang hue brige implementing basic hue APIs.

It would mainly translate calls to the hue hub v1 api to calls to swith lights on or off.

It will support only on off: no colors or gradations.

I don't have a fully docummented HUB API. It has been implemented by many other projects but sometimes fails with Alexa.

Discovery is done over SSDP responding to SSDP calls

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
CACHE-CONTROL: max-age=100
EXT:
LOCATION: http://192.168.0.21:80/description.xml
SERVER: FreeRTOS/6.0.5, UPnP/1.0, IpBridge/0.1
ST: upnp:rootdevice
USN: uuid:2fa00080-d000-11e1-9b23-001f80007bbe::upnp:rootdevice

The discovery will provide a /discovery.xml url with details of the hub.

Request:

GET /discovery.xml

Response:

<root xmlns="urn:schemas-upnp-org:device-1-0">
    <specVersion>
        <major>1</major>
        <minor>0</minor>
    </specVersion>
    <URLBase>http://{ip}:{port}/</URLBase>
    <device>
        <deviceType>urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:Basic:1</deviceType>
        <friendlyName>Philips hue ({ip})</friendlyName>
        <manufacturer>Royal Philips Electronics</manufacturer>
        <manufacturerURL>http://www.philips.com</manufacturerURL>
        <modelDescription>Philips hue Personal Wireless Lighting</modelDescription>
        <modelName>Philips hue bridge 2015</modelName>
        <modelNumber>BSB002</modelNumber>
        <modelURL>http://www.meethue.com</modelURL>
        <serialNumber>{serial}</serialNumber>
        <UDN>uuid:{uuid}</UDN>
    </device>
</root>

Once Alexa has discovered the hub information it will use Hue API (v1) to discover lights.

The first thing Alexa will do is call the /api endpoint to associate with the hub and recieve a username. The username will be leveraged in the uri of subsequent api calls to identify the hub. The username is a random hex string of 16bytes.

Request:

GET /api

Response:

[
    {
        "success": {
            "username": "{username}"
        }
    }
]

Once Alexa is associated to the hub it will query the lights endpoint to list all lights: There i had to find the necessary attributes that needed to be presented. I chose to present OSRAM switches because these where the only on/off switches i could find on. I started by adding all the attributes listed on Philips website but discovery didn't work. Alexa requested the lights endpoint ~10 times and failed to discover anything. I found that some emulation softawre added the pointsymbol attribute. By adding it discovery did work. Luckily i created a way to generate unique ids as described on Philips website as it turns out reverting to simple ids break the discovery too.

TODO: check if exposing a specific device type is alright rather than copying existing ones

Request:

GET /api/{username}/lights

Response:

{
    "20": {
        "name":"Cave",
        "manufacturername":"OSRAM",
        "modelid":"Plug 01",
        "swversion":"v1.04.12",
        "type":"On/off light",
        "uniqueid":"00:7d:e8:a0:eb:37:00:f8-a4",
        "state": {
            "on":false,
            "reachable":true
        },
        "pointsymbol":{}
    },
    "21": {
        "name":"Cave - escalier",
        "manufacturername":"OSRAM",
        "modelid":"Plug 01",
        "swversion":"v1.04.12",
        "type":"On/off light",
        "uniqueid":"00:b5:64:46:fb:57:38:28-80",
        "state": {
            "on":false,
            "reachable":true
        },
        "pointsymbol":{}
    }
}

Once Alexa have discovered the lights list it will poll to each light to have their status.

Request:

GET /api/{username}/lights/{id}

Response:

{
        "name":"Cave",
        "manufacturername":"OSRAM",
        "modelid":"Plug 01",
        "swversion":"v1.04.12",
        "type":"On/off light",
        "uniqueid":"00:7d:e8:a0:eb:37:00:f8-a4",
        "state": {
            "on":false,
            "reachable":true
        },
        "pointsymbol":{}
    }

To change the state of a light Alexa will send a state request to a light with a put method

Request:

PUT /api/{username}/lights/{id}/state

Request content:

{
    "on":true
}

Response:

[
    {
        "success": {
            "/lights/20/state/on": true
        }
    }
]