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”.<\/p>\n
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?.<\/p>\n
This<\/a> Reddit page suggest you can add lights using the Hue API by sending<\/p>\n {“deviceid”:[“SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”,”SN”]}<\/i><\/p>\n with most likely PUT (but it may be POST)<\/p>\n it is not clear, which object the json should be PUT to<\/p>\n This<\/a> page says that you can POST this Json drashsmith.com<\/a><\/p>\n 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. [ 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.<\/p>\n Happy hunting.<\/p>\n [srs_total_visitors]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading “Add Hue lights by serial no”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-philips-hue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.bizoir.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n{“deviceid”: “light_id”}
\n(…where light_id is the serial number printed on the side of the Hue bulb.) to this object
\n\/api\/[hash]\/lights<\/i><\/p>\n
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\nPUT 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<\/p>\n
\n{
\n“error”: {
\n“type”: 7,
\n“address”: “\/lights\/deviceid”,
\n“description”: “invalid value, SN1, for parameter, deviceid”
\n}
\n}
\n]<\/i><\/p>\n