It can be a pain to add new devices to Philips Hue – it takes quite some time and sometimes, it does not seem to want to work – even with “touchlink”.
Anyhow, it is always nice to have an alternative, and in the Hue app, you can also add devices by serial-number. But how does this work with the Hue API?.
This Reddit page suggest you can add lights using the Hue API by sending
{“deviceid”:[“SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”]}
with most likely PUT (but it may be POST)
it is not clear, which object the json should be PUT to
This page says that you can POST this Json
{“deviceid”: “light_id”}
(…where light_id is the serial number printed on the side of the Hue bulb.) to this object
/api/[hash]/lights
After a little trial-and-error, I get an error if I try to either PUT or POST on the root object (ie http://[ip-address]/api/[username]) saying that neither PUT nor POST were accessible on this object.
PUT was also not accessible on the “lights” object, but when trying to POST “{“deviceid”:[“SN1″,”SN2″]}” to the lights object (http://[ip-address]/api/[username]/lights), I got this reply
[
{
“error”: {
“type”: 7,
“address”: “/lights/deviceid”,
“description”: “invalid value, SN1, for parameter, deviceid”
}
}
]
which seems to suggest, that the serials for new devices should be POST’ed to the “lights” object. When I try to post the same Json to the “sensors” object, I get the same error, but I am not sure, that you can use the same method for the “sensors” object – I cannot seem to find serials on my sensors.
Happy hunting.
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