ambilight

An API library for Node.js that interacts with a Philips Ambilight TV.

This API provides all documented features and a set of useful functions to control the tv remotely. This API abstracts away the Philips Ambilight REST API. This project is based on the node-hue-api@0.2.7 project by Peter Murray. As in the HUE API, the Ambilight API supports for each function a callback and if omitted a promise will be returned for use in chaining.

Change Log

For a list of changes, please refer to the changelog. ChangeLog

Installation

$ npm install ambilight

Philips Ambilight Resources

There are plenty of resources about ambilight on the internet, but the best technical description is probably your own tv (http://<ip-address>:1925/1/doc/API.html). You may need to enable jointSPACE by entering the following digit sequence while watching TV.

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• jointSPACE

Work in Progress

Currently I am writing new tests to test the REST endpoints. Especially the POST requests have not been tested truely.

API

var ambilight = require('ambilight')

Examples

Getting the Topology

The Topology of the ambilights is an object with the amount of lightstrips mounted to the TV. My TV (Philips 46PFL8007K/12) has 5 lights mounted to the left and right and 10 on the top, bottom is zero. To query the Topology use the following snippet:

var ambilight = require('ambilight');
 
var showResult = function (result) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
};
 
var host = "192.168.0.11",
    api = new ambilight.AmbilightApi(host);
 
// Using a Promise
api.getTopology().then(showResult).done();
 
// Using a Callback
api.getTopology(function (err, result) {
    if (err) throw err;
    showResult(result);
});
 

The resulting output looks like this:

{"layers":1,"left":5,"top":10,"right":5,"bottom":0}

A full list of examples can be found inside the examples directory.