Philips Hue Management from DMS

A bar widget that lets you manage your Philips Hue lighting from your desktop.

Note: A Hue Bridge is required for OpenHue to manage your devices.

Features

• Supports both lights and rooms: Control an entire room or individual lights
• Guided setup: Prompts for OpenHue bridge pairing if not already configured
• Real-time updates: Listens to your Hue Bridge's event stream for real-time updates, instantly reflecting any changes made via the app or automations
• Brightness and temperature control: Manually control a devices's brightness level and temperature value
• Color control: Leverages the builtin DMS color picker to set a devices's color directly
• Scenes: Easily switch between your predefined scenes for each room
• Device icons: Maps your Philips Hue icons to the closest equivalent from Material Symbols

Installation

First Install the OpenHue CLI and jq dependencies, then proceed with plugin installation:

DMS Settings UI

1. Open DMS Settings Mod+, and go to the Plugins tab then click Browse
2. Find Hue Manager and click install

Manually

cd ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins
git clone https://github.com/derethil/dms-hue-manager.git

1. Open DMS Settings Mod+, and go to the Plugins tab
2. Click "Scan for plugins"
3. Enable the Hue Manager plugin

Nix

Enable openhue-cli and jq e.g.

home.packages = with pkgs; [
  openhue-cli
  jq
];

Then follow the DMS Plugin Registry Nix installation instructions.

Configuration

Plugin options can be configured in the Plugins tab in DMS Settings; they are also stored in ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugin_settings.json:

{
  "hueManager": {
    "openHuePath": "openhue",
    "jqPath": "jq",
    "enabled": true,
    "useDeviceIcons": true
  }
}