deastiny / atmosphuer

Set the atmosphere through sound and light with Philips Hue.

Atmosphuer

A small and lightweight Flask based Python3 application that shows scenes from Philips Hue and streams music.
Run it on a raspberry pi for easy and fast access !

Why ?

Mainly to set the atmosphere for our pen and paper group.
With just two taps we can set a warm orange light and start playing pub-background music.

How to install ?

• Create a Python3.6 Virtual Environment
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Start the server with python atmosphuer.py

On the first run a config file settings.json will be created. Use it to configure the app:

• lights: The name of the lights you want to show (currently 3 at most)
• bridge_ip: The ip adress of the hue bridge, check your router or Hue app for it
• owners: When starting the app you get a list of the owners and corresponding scenes, add the id's of scenes you want to see
• sound_dir: The directory where all the sound files should be read from
• transition: The transition time for scene changes

What else ?

I don't know ?! Got any ideas ? Open an issue and let's talk !
Please feel free to contribute in any way, be it documentation, blog posts, discussion or code - this is open source !

atmosphuer's Issues

Fade audio

What would be options to fade audio tracks ?

Select scene -> Play Music

The option to auto-play music on selecting a scene would be great, e.g.:
Select scene: street, start playing cars_city_background.mp3 automatically.
This should be optional, it should be possible to disable it globally and the UI should be intuitive.

Indicate what is currently selected/playing

Adding some indicator or an extra label (free from the list) to show the current selections would help with clarity.

Scene does not switch when audio is loading

If a scene is switched while audio is loading the scene changes only get applied after the audio is done loading or anoher audio is selected.

Mocking Bridge

Hey @DeastinY ,

Without access to a Philips HUE, nothing will work or startup. Only people with this device can contribute to this project at the moment. Maybe look into mocking out this dependency so the server will startup with some templated information so contributions can happen from people without the device.

Sound Mixer ?

Some sounds work really well together, one could for example combine a soft jazz song with some dampened voice and dish rattle to create a nice bar atmosphere. Add some storm and rain to it and the outside is covered as well.

• How would this mix with the current sound player ?
• How would a touch-friendly interface look like ?
• Load custom sounds or add pre-defined ones ?

In any way I think it would be important to make it very clear what is playing, at which volume and the sounds would either have to loop perfectly or be rather lengthy.

Add search to lists

Adding a small search above the scene / mp3 view would certainly help when quickly looking for something special.

Missing Requirements

Looks like the requirements.txt is missing the Flask-Navigation library.

Added and submitted PR : #7

Set up CI, write Tests and ReadTheDocs

Basically make this a proper project 😄