Glow/Pulsate Hue Lights & Maker API

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What would the best way to generate a pulsing / glowing effect on hue lights and how would I go about triggering this via maker api?

I have a network rack running a monitoring solution, i want to trigger a strip light to indicate there is an issue

Thanks in advance!

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I wouldn't consider Maker API for the Hue side of this, if that's what you mean--it wouldn't really work to send something to the Hue Bridge, but you could use Hubitat's Hue Bridge integration with a custom app or rule to send whatever commands you wanted to the Hue light or group to change them as desired. If you want Hue's native "alert"/"breathe"-type effect, you'd need either an app or a driver to send a specific command to a Hue Bridge or a community Hue integration (the stock one doesn't support this) that can send what you're looking for on your behalf.

Maker API may be useful for the network monitoring, though. Do you have a way to make your network monitoring solution send an HTTP GET to something? You could make a virtual switch, expose that via Maker, and then use an HTTP GET to modify that switch state depending on your network state. This is exactly the kind of thing Maker API was intended to help with. If you set up an instance with a device, you'll see the URLs you need, and it should be simple to set up if you have a way to actually send the GET (e.g., via curl if that's available on your monitoring solution). Then you could use this switch to trigger something with Hue via another app/rule via whatever idea you have for that, as above.

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@bertabcd1234 Thanks; looks like I can issue a http get and toggle a switch... will take a look at some of the third party habitat hue integrations for the 'breathe' effect - I Think there are a couple..

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There are two I know of (I wrote one :slight_smile: ) currently maintained, plus an older one or two I wouldn't recommend at this point. But if you're otherwise happy with your Hue setup, a custom driver or app could just send the command you want directly to the Hue API without anything else.

Good luck!

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