Here’s a proposed fixture profile I created for controlling Philips Hue bulbs. This one has two modes:
- A standard 5 channel mode where the color mode is RGB, and you separately control the bulb’s color mode (using Beam’s color picker and intensity dial) vs white mode (set RGB to 0 and then use the color temp and white intensity modulations). This is similar to how the * blog entry describes using the bulbs.
- An RGBW mode which unifies the color and white modes, which I find much more useful. I use this mode with Beam’s HSI color selection. The intensity dial controls brightness in color or white modes. Setting the saturation to .5 puts the bulb in color mode. Setting the saturation to 1.0 puts the bulb in white mode (Beam zeroes out the RGB channels). I don’t find intermediate saturation values useful.
For either mode, using dmx-hue’s transition setting allows you to smoothly crossfade between color and white modes. When I want to get fancy, I’ll use a Beam scale device to boost the intensity of the bulb when in color mode (since white mode tends to be brighter for a given intensity value). I do that by mapping Beam’s saturation parameter and a parameter of the Scale device, to a single macro – so that setting the saturation to .5 results in the Scale device boosting intensity. Several different Scale parameters will do the trick here, depending on what you want.
Hopefully someone will find this useful!
Philips Hue.sbf (2.1 KB)