Add philips-hue-control community ability

[jamalnajmi]

What does this Ability do?

Philips Hue Control is a community OpenHome Ability that controls Philips Hue lights via the local Hue Bridge API. It supports voice commands for on/off, brightness, color, temperature, scene activation, status checks, and all-lights control in a multi-turn flow.

Suggested Trigger Words

• hue lights
• turn on the lights
• turn off the lights
  -control the lights
• light control

Type

• [x ] New community Ability
• Improvement to existing Ability
• Bug fix
• Documentation update

External APIs

• No external APIs
• Uses external API(s): Philips Hue Bridge Local API (https://<bridge_ip>/clip/v2/) with runtime bridge-generated app key (no hardcoded key)

Testing

• Tested in OpenHome Live Editor
• All exit paths tested (said "stop", "exit", etc.)
• [x ] Error scenarios tested (bridge discovery failure, invalid spoken IP input, unreachable bridge IP)

Checklist

• Files are in community/philips-hue-control/
• main.py follows SDK pattern (extends MatchingCapability, has register_capability + call)
• README.md included with description, suggested triggers, and setup
• resume_normal_flow() called on every exit path
• No print() — using editor_logging_handler
• No hardcoded API keys — using placeholders
• No blocked imports (redis, connection_manager, user_config)
• No asyncio.sleep() or asyncio.create_task() — using session_tasks
• Error handling on all external calls
• Tested in OpenHome Live Editor

Anything else?

Commands verified in demo:

• Turn on the living room
• Set bedroom to 50 percent
• Make kitchen blue
• Activate movie night
• Are the kitchen lights on?
• Turn off all the lights
• Stop / That’s all

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✅ Community PR Path Check — Passed

All changed files are inside the community/ folder. Looks good!

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🔀 Branch Merge Check

PR direction: add-philips-hue-control → dev

✅ Passed — add-philips-hue-control → dev is a valid merge direction

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🔍 Lint Results

✅ __init__.py — Empty as expected

Files linted: community/philips-hue-control/main.py

✅ Flake8 — Passed

✅ All checks passed!

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