Hacking Your Lights
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2 min readMay 6, 2019
Increasing we use RESTful Web services to interface to devices. With this you IoT device runs a Web service, and then we call it with a POST HTTPs request (from url) and with various headers set (contained within headers):
r= requests.post(url,json.dumps(data),headers=headers)
Philips Hue lights use a bridge to configure the lights, via a wireless connection. The bridge itself connects to an Ethernet…