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Create Postman Environment and Collection If you don’t have Postman installed you can get it at. You are now ready to start setting up your Postman client. Optionally you can specify contact details.Īfter submitting your new app is ready, and also an AppId, ClientId and ClientSecret will be provided, for example:.Application description: A short description for your remote app.Callback URL: This is needed for the Oauth2 consent and returning an authorization code.App name: A display name for your remote app.You need to specify the following required fields: The first thing you need to do after you have create a Hue Developer account, is to create a new Remote Hue API app here. It was really the foundation of what I learned using Postman to do Remote Authentication to Hue API that made me able to create the solution above, so lets get into the details. īefore I go into the details of this blog post on how I set up remote authentication and control of my Hue API using Postman, I first wanted to share a proof and sneak peak of a coming blog post that I have succeeded in what I’ve wanted, I can now authenticate and control my lights using for example Power Platform: To be able to do that, I need to be able to run Hue API commands remotely, and luckily the Hue API support that as well. I want to be able to use Azure Functions, Power Platform, PowerShell etc. It could be updating the lights to reflect my presence in Teams, it could be blinking the lights if some alerts happened, and so on. I wanted to look into scenarios where I can manipulate my Hue Lights dependent on events from the Microsoft Platform. This is where I should let you know my real reasons for wanting to use the Hue API, as I work with Microsoft and Cloud solutions daily. However, this let’s me explore the API only locally, requiring me to run the commands from a local device. So I downloaded that collection, and after configuring my Postman environment with the IP address to the bridge, and pushed the linked button to create a username, all described above on the get started link, I was good to go! I found the following useful Postman Collection on GitHub. When I started exploring the API, I did what most people do: I searched online for tips and how-to’s. If you are familiar with Postman for exploring API’s, which may have brought you to this blog post to begin with, you should read on as I will describe and share some of the work I have been doing. If you want to have a very quick look at the Hue API, you can start with this link which does not require a Hue Developer Account. You need to register and login with a Hue Developer Account, which is free, to be able to explore the API documentation, and for following the steps I describe in this blog post.

Postman install windows reboot required how to#

One of the things I quickly got interested in was how to use the very well developed Hue API ( ). A while back I bought my first starter kit of Philips Hue lights and bridge, and since then I’ve bought several more bulbs, lamps, lights strips and more.