Build Chatbot Interactions

Control Your Bulbs from Lita

You’re finally ready to control your bulbs using Lita. Open the auto-generated hue_lightswitch.rb file. You’ll fill this in with chat routes and handler methods that call out to the HueColoredBulb class. But first, you need to set up a :hue_bulb_name configuration variable so Lita end users can tell this skill the name of the local bulb they want to control through chat. You also need a :light method that serves as a reusable handle to a HueColoredBulb object with a connection to the specified named bulb:

lita-hue-lightswitch/lib/lita/handlers/hue_lightswitch.rb

module Lita
  module Handlers
    class HueLightswitch < Handler

      # Set these in your bot's lita_config.rb
      config :hue_bulb_name, default: ...