Hue Sync Box support

[adrianipopescu]

Any chance this supports or is planning to support the hue sync box / ambilight setup?

That's literally the only thing keeping the Hue hub in my house right now and I'd love to ditch it.

[chrivers]

I'm not sure if these devices use non-standard zigbee communication? That's the case for entertainment zones, for examples.

If it's relatively standard, we might get them to work.

The biggest obstacle, is that.. I don't have any of those devices 😛

So unless someone wants to help implement it, or want to send some of this equipment, I'm afraid I can't really help 😞

[JustAnotherPU]

I have the HueSync Box 8K and couple gradient light. I am up for testing if this can help increase the support of the project !

[adrianipopescu]

I'm down to also do some testing and if I find next end of month I have some money I can surely donate to the cause.

in other pieces of trivia I picked up along the way, from what others say the whole "entertainment" implementation philips did is non-standard, meaning they use special commands to quickly shift / stream colors with minimal lag, I will look for reference materials to share

some discussions could be found here: Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt#5830

[chrivers]

@adrianipopescu, @JustAnotherPU, thank you for offering to help.

Unfortunately, the problem isn't just testing, it's that there is nothing to test right now.

The code to do this does not currently exist, and cannot be supported through zigbee2mqtt, since it's (as far as I know) a completely non-standard extension.

Right now, bifrost only supports z2m as a backend, so as long as z2m can't handle this, we are out of luck.

Also, as I mentioned, I don't have any hardware that supports this, so I can't develop support for it.

But yeah, if anyone finds any good reference material, or just more information in general, let me know. Maybe join on discord, if you haven't already?