Scenes API

The scenes API provides a means of interacting with the scenes in Hue Bridge.

The Scenes API interacts with specific Scene objects stored in the Hue Bridge. These are not to be confused with the preset scenes that are present in the Android and iOS Hue applications.

There are a number of limitations on Scenes in the Hue Bridge.

• The bridge can support up to 200 Scenes
• There is a maximum of 2048 Scene LightStates which may lower the maximum number of Scenes that can be stored

For example if you have 20 LightStates stored on each Scene, the maximum number of Scenes that can be stored in the Bridge will be 102.

• getAll()
• getScene(id)
• getSceneByName(name)
• createScene()
• updateScene()
• updateLightState()
• deleteScene()
• activateScene

getAll()

The getAll() function allows you to get all the scenes that the Hue Bridge has registered with it.

api.scenes.getAll()
  .then(allScenes => {
    // Display the Scenes from the bridge
    console.log(JSON.stringify(allScenes, null, 2));
  });

This function call will resolve to an Array of Scene objects.

A complete code sample for this function is available here.

getScene()

The getScene(id) function allows a specific scene to be retrieved from the Hue Bridge.

• id: The String id of the scene to retrieve or a previous Scene instance obtained from the bridge.

api.scenes.getScene('GfOL56sqKPGmPer')
  .then(scene => {
    console.log(scene.toStringDetailed());
  })
;

This function call will resolve to a Scene object for the specified scene id.

If the Scene cannot be found an ApiError will be returned with a getHueErrorType() value of 3.

A complete code sample for this function is available here.

getSceneByName()

The getSceneByName(name) function will find all the scenes that are stored in the bridge with the specified name.

• name: The String that represents the name of the Scenes that you wish to find.

api.scenes.getSceneByName('Concentrate')
  .then(results => {
    // Do something with the scenes we found
    results.forEach(scene => {
      console.log(scene.toStringDetailed());
    });
  })
;

The function will resolve to an Array of Scene Objects that were matched to the specified name.

A complete code sample for this function is available here.

createScene()

The createScene(scene) function allows for the creation of new Scenes in the Hue Bridge.

• scene: A Scene object that has been configured with the desired settings for the scene being created.

const scene = v3.model.createLightScene();
scene.name = 'My Scene';
scene.lights = [1, 2, 3];

api.scenes.createScene(scene)
  .then(scene => {
    console.log(`Successfully created scene\n${scene.toStringDetailed()}`);
  })
;

The function will resolve with a corresponding GroupScene or LightScene object, depending upon what was passed in.

_Note: Whilst the Hue API itself will allow a scene to be updated via creation call, this library will prevent such a thing, by removing any id value from the Scene object to prevent overwriting an existing Scene.

A complete code sample for this function is available here.

updateScene()

The update(scene) function allows you to update an existing Scene in the Hue Bridge.

• scene: The Scene object that contains the relevant updated data to apply to the existing scene.

// The scene would have be retrieved from the bridge using some other call.
const scene;
scene.name = 'Updated scene name';

api.scenes.updateScene(scene)
  .then(updated => {
    console.log(`Updated scene properties: ${JSON.stringify(updated)}`);
  })
;

The function will resolve to an object that contains the attribute names of the scene that were updated set tot he success status of the change to the attribute.

For example, the result from the above example would resolve to:

{
  "name": true
}

A complete code sample for this function is available here.

updateLightState()

The updateLightState(id, lightId, lightstate) function allows you to update the LightState stored for a specific light in a Scene.

• id: The String id for the Scene to update
• lightId: The Integer id value for the Light in the Scene to update the LightState of
• lightstate: The SceneLightState object containing the desired state for the specified light to activate when the scene is activated.

Note: The SceneLightState is a simplified LightState object and can be imported using:

const SceneLightState = require('node-hue-api').v3.lightStates.SceneLightState;

const sceneLightState = new SceneLightState();
sceneLightState.on().brightness(100)

api.scenes.updateLightState(sceneId, lightId, sceneLightState)
  .then(results => {
    // Show the resultant updated attributes that were modified from the update request
    console.log(`Updated LightState values in scene:`)
    console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
  })
;

The function will resolve to an Object that contains the SceneLightState values that were updated along with the success state of the requested change.

For example if you passed a SceneLightState that updated the on and bri attributes you would get a result object of the form:

{
  "on": true,
  "bri": true
}

A complete code sample for this function is available here.

deleteScene()

The deleteScene(id) function will delete the specified scene identified by the id from the Hue Bridge.

• id: The id of the Scene or a Scene instance to delete from the Hue Bridge.

api.scenes.deleteScene('abc170f')
  .then(result => {
    console.log(`Deleted scene? ${result}`);
  })
;

The call will resolve to a Boolean indicating the success status of the deletion.

A complete code sample for this function is available here.

activateScene()

The activateScene(id) function allows you to activate an existing stored Scene.

• id: The id of the Scene to be activated.

api.scenes.activateScene('GfOL56sqKPGmPer')
  .then(activated => {
    console.log(`The Scene was successfully activated? ${activated}`);
  })
;

The function call will resolve to a Boolean indicating the success state for the activation of the Scene.

Note: Scene activation is really a feature of the Groups API, not the underlying Scenes API that the bridge provides. This function is provided as a convenience function.

See the Groups API for more details on activating a Scene.