Capistrano::Hue

Capistrano tasks for using Philips Hue lights as a deployment indicator. In the current state, it is basically just turning the specified light bulp on and off during deployment.

Installation

Add this to your Gemfile:

group :development do
  gem 'capistrano' '~> 3.1'
  gem 'capistrano-hue' '~> 0.1'
end

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Usage

Add this line to your Capfile

require 'capistrano/hue'

Preperation

• Check out the Getting Started Guide to set up an API user on you Hue Bridge.
• On OSX need to install pidof

Configuration

# config/deploy/production.rb

set :hue_enabled, true
set :hue_bridge_ip, '10.100.198.4'
set :hue_user_id, '871baa6b48b3a42af620f2509a1f'
set :hue_light_bulp_id, 1
set :hue_color, { hue: 1, sat: 1, bri: 1 }
set :hue_process_name, 'capistrano-hue'

You can test your configuration by running cap <env> hue:start to start the sequence and cap <env> hue:stop to stop the sequence.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/capistrano-hue. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.