Hue Log - Philips Hue logging, monitoring and analytics for macOS | Product Hunt
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Support is great. Feedback is even better.
"Thanks for checking out the launch - I'm super happy to receive your support - no matter if it is cheering from the sidelines and upvotes, or helpful comments about what I can make better."
It started out with a lightbulb lighting up in the middle of the night - literally! What is really happening in my Philips Hue smart lightning system...? Given that it was in the middle of the night I didn't dig that deep into the problem. But the day after I discovered there is no log of events. And it is really hard to get an overview of rules, groups of lights, scenes, senors, and so on.
There must be a way... but I couldn't find it. So scratching my own itch I tried to dig up data using the Philips Hue bridge API. And what started as a hack turned out into a much bigger side-project while I was discovering more and more pain points I could solve using that dat.
Hue Log is a native macOS application, giving your real-time logs of everything that happens in your Philips Hue system. Additionally, it visualize temperature over time in different rooms, gives you instant overview of all devices battery status, all different rules and automations configured and their dependencies, how much of the internal resources you are using and how close to reach the limit you are, a way to discover if and of your devices have ZigBee range problems, and much more. Support multiple bridges for the true hardcore Philips Hue enthusiast.
I've got some really great ideas about features, but I had to draw the line somewhere and get a first version out there. I decided for an up-front price, rather than a subscription (I think I have a bit of subscription fatigue in general...). It does also mean I sell more of what you get now, rather than a future promise that someone may expect if they commit to an annual payment.
From a maker perspective - my thought is that the target audience are hardcore home automation enthusiasts. If it gets traction, I can broaden the perspective with a slightly more mainstream consumer product built on a lot of what I've already developed. So in a way the idea is to use a niche product for validation, and then do cross-selling and widen then audience.
It is also my first commercial indie-product in over 10 years after doing the startup-race for a long time. It is great to be back!
@silisolutionist good luck with your launch - will check it out!
I’ve worked about 2 months part-time with this app. I was familiar with the Hue API but never used Swift and SwiftUI, so initially development was a bitter slower while getting up to speed with a new language and framework.
@stpe Amazing! 2 months is a great turnaround time. I've had non-Phillips lightbulbs lighting up at random times at home but I think that might be because of aliens! Lol.
All the best Stefan. I hope it goes well for you.
@silisolutionist Thanks Pam.
Yes. Quite happy with 2 months. But most importantly I’m now up to speed and can hit the ground running doing another project while gathering the feedback of this.
@mocarg I must say that discovering the depths of the Hue API, and how it has evolved over versions - with some functionality supported by the latest official API version, but not everything. And how Philips Hue's own functionality is a mix of both of their API versions.
Resulting in that there are a lot of stuff that isn't surfaced in the official iPhone app, but still relevant for the user that really wants control. Finding "left over" rules created by Philip's own experiments, like Halloween light scenes, that are referencing stuff that doesn't exist, but still occupy resources.
In a way that has been "good", because it gives my app an even greater purpose in that sense. :)
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