Bridge Registration
When you installed the Hue system, you needed to press the sync button on the top of the Hue bridge for your Hue smartphone app to talk to the unit. Philips has adopted a basic means of security to prevent anyone nearby from gaining unauthorized access to your Hue network. By pressing the button on the Hue bridge, you are authorizing the application requesting control access.
To do this for Python scripts running on the Pi, you first need to register with the bridge by connecting to it within thirty seconds after the Hue bridge button has been pressed. You’ll also need to know the IP address of the Hue bridge on your network, which you should be able to identify from your network router’s dashboard, similar to the way the ...
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