Philips Hue - is it possible to press the button on the hue by code

Question

I was wondering if it was possible to perform a webrequest to call the button which let you connect the phone with the hue?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There is a way to address this physical button or link button. It isn't possible via the SDK's but you can use the API to do a PUT on

http://<ip-address.of.the.bridge>/api/<username>/config 

with the following message/body

{
    "linkbutton": true
}

You still need to press the physical button at least once to generate a username that is linked with your device.

URL:  /api
messagebody:    {"devicetype":"my_hue_app#your_device_name"}
method:     POST