My wife constantly has trouble getting my attention when I am either working or playing video games due to me perpetually wearing noise cancelling headphones to focus on work. Texts and calls may even fail since iOS often doesn't show texts when my Mac computer is on Do Not Disturb. It has become a dyer issue.
She often gets angry with me even if I dont think its my fault because since I am the husband, I'm obviously wrong. Obviously.
In order to combat this, I've created, Hue Alert. This will blink my desk lamp different colors when my wife requires my attention. Either a nice white blink for normal usage or if I did something wrong, red and quick blinks to know when shes mad and I have to stop what I'm doing to take my bitter medicine.
This is a web app which will sit on an active server listening on port 80.
The main page will display the two options: Standard Alert and Angry Alert
Clicking with the Standard Alert will: - Turn my lamp on for one second - Turn my lamp off for one second - Repeat three times
Clicking with the Angry Alert will: - Turn on my lamp for a half second - Turn it off for a half second - Repeat 5 times - Keep it turned on red, so I know that I screwed up
Note: You can use https://<bridge ip address>/debug/clip.html to play with the commands in a development enviornment.
git clone https://github.com/srz2/hue_alert.git- cd into hue_alert
- Execute
python3 config.pyand fill out the fields presented. - Initially run the app
flask run - Click the hue bridge button
- Navigate to
http://<ip_address>/authorize. Get the code given and copy it as theuuidinside the config.ini file - Restart the app and now navigate to
http://<ip_address>/lights. Locate the light number you want to control and copy it also into the config.ini file as thelight_id - Restart the app one last time, and the app should be working now from the homepage
- Ubuntu Server
- Multithreaded Python with Flask
- HTML/CSS
- JSON
- Hue API