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HTTP Remote Control API

Overview

API Endpoints

Colors

How to define a color.
The color of light is best represented in terms of hue, saturation, kelvin, and brightness components. [Hue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hue) and saturation describe color where as [kelvin describes warm and cool whites](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature#Categorizing_different_lighting). Extra care should be given when converting between RGB and HSBK as RGB poorly represents the color of light. * `#ff0000` – Deep red, maximum brightness * `hue:120 saturation:1.0 brightness:0.5` – Deep green, 50% brightness * `kelvin:2700 brightness: 0.5` – Warm white (2700 K), 50% brightness * `rgb:0,255,255` – Cyan, 100% brightness * `kelvin:5000` – Set kelvin to cool white (5000 K) and saturation to 0 without affecting other components * `kelvin:2700 saturation:1` – Set kelvin to warm (2700 K) and saturation to 1 * `brightness:0.75` – Set brightness to 75% without affecting other components * `saturation:0.25` – Set saturation to 25% without affecting other components * `red` – Sets color to red but doesn't affect brightness One or many of the `hue`, `saturation`, `kelvin`, and `brightness` components can be combined to describe the desired color. [block:api-header] { "type": "basic", "title": "Formatting Colors" } [/block] [block:parameters] { "data": { "h-0": "Format", "h-1": "Example", "h-2": "Notes", "0-0": "`[name]`", "0-1": "`white`, `red`, `orange`, `yellow`, `cyan`, `green`, `blue`, `purple`, or `pink`", "0-2": "Sets the hue and saturation components, but leaves brightness untouched.", "1-0": "`hue:[0-360]`", "1-1": "`hue:120`", "1-2": "Sets hue without affecting other components", "2-0": "`saturation:[0.0-1.0]`", "2-1": "`saturation:0.5`", "2-2": "Sets saturation without affecting other components", "3-0": "`brightness:[0.0-1.0]`", "3-1": "`brightness:0.5`", "3-2": "Sets brightness without affecting other components", "4-0": "`kelvin:[1500-9000]`", "4-1": "`kelvin:5000`", "4-2": "Sets kelvin to the given value and saturation to `0.0`. Other components are not affected.", "5-0": "`#RRGGBB`", "5-1": "`#ff0000`", "5-2": "Automatically converts to HSBK", "6-0": "`rgb:[0-255],[0-255],[0-255]`", "6-1": "`rgb:255,255,0`", "6-2": "Automatically converts to HSBK" }, "cols": 3, "rows": 7 } [/block] [block:api-header] { "type": "basic", "title": "Validating Colors" } [/block] If you need to validate user input, you can use the [Validate Color](doc:validate-color) endpoint.