Hue Doctor
Analyse your Hue Bridge
What is Hue Doctor?
A macOS App to analyse and retrieve useful information from your Philips Signify Hue Bridge. It checks for errors, provides the battery status of your devices, lists connectivity issues, provides an overview of the remaining capacity on the bridge and creates a home report which summarises all your bulbs and devices. The home report can be printed or saved as a PDF file for future reference of light & room names, bulb types and devices. This is handy as a backup of most of your bridge settings.
The App comes with a lightweight menubar option to easily switch lights on-or off. Add your preferred lights to favorites for quick access. Use a slider to control brightness and below the slider you will find buttons for cold, medium, warm, nightlight, dimmed and bright settings. Optionally run the App on the menubar only for a simple, lightweight and quick access option to control your lights.
The App is free and fully functional, with one optional In-App purchase, which unlocks the JSON Viewer. With the JSON Viewer you can see the communication with the bridge in realtime, and issue manual commands (recommended for professionals).
How to get started / what are the requirements?
- You need a Hue Bridge
- You need a macOS device to run this App
- Connected to the same network as the bridge
- You need to know the IP address of your bridge
- The IP Address can be found on your official Hue iOS App
JSON Viewer
The viewer shows all communication in realtime and allows you to search through the responses (Command +F). You can issue your own GET, PUT, POST and DELETE (use with caution!) commands. It is possible to add a JSON body containing instructions and/or a configuration. For details on the bridge commands, visit the Hue Api website from Signify.
Hue Doctor is completely ad free, subscription free, private, requires no sign-up and no API registration. An optional In-App purchase is available to permanently unlock the JSON Viewer.