Controlling Elgato Key Light under Ubuntu with Ruby

Recently I’ve acquired Elgato Key Light. It is a WiFi controllable LED lighting panel.

The panel uses 160 LEDs to provide up to 2800 lumens of brightness and a color range of 2900-7000K. While you can control it from a mobile device, doing it directly from the shell makes the whole experience way more convenient.

Key Light officially does not support Linux, however it uses ESP32, and it does run an unprotected HTTP server that accepts JSON commands. You can not only turn it on and off but also adjust both light temperature and brightness with simple JSON requests.

Here’s the code that I use to control my lights written in Ruby:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'yaml'

# Set your lights IPs
LIGHTS = %w[
  192.168.0.199
]

COMMAND = ARGV[0]
DETAIL1 = ARGV[1].to_i
DETAIL2 = ARGV[2].to_i

# Sends a json request to a given elgato light
def dispatch(ip, payload, endpoint, method)
  uri = URI("http://#{ip}:9123/elgato/#{endpoint}")
  req = method.new(uri)
  req.body = payload.to_json

  res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) do |http|
    http.request(req)
  end

  puts res.body
end

def on(light_ip)
  dispatch(
    light_ip,
    { 'numberOfLights': 1, 'lights': [{ 'on': 1 }] },
    'lights',
    Net::HTTP::Put
  )
end

def off(light_ip)
  dispatch(
    light_ip,
    { 'numberOfLights': 1, 'lights': [{ 'on': 0 }] },
    'lights',
    Net::HTTP::Put
  )
end

def temperature(light_ip, value)
  raise "Needs to be between 143 and 344, was: #{value}" if value < 143 || value > 344

  dispatch(
    light_ip,
    { 'numberOfLights': 1, 'lights': [{ 'on': 1, 'temperature': value }] },
    'lights',
    Net::HTTP::Put
  )
end

def brightness(light_ip, value)
  raise "Needs to be between 3 and 100, was: #{value}"  if value < 3 || value > 100

  dispatch(
    light_ip,
    { 'numberOfLights': 1, 'lights': [{ 'on': 1, 'brightness': value }] },
    'lights',
    Net::HTTP::Put
  )
end

def info(light_ip)
  dispatch(
    light_ip,
    {},
    'accessory-info',
    Net::HTTP::Get
  )
end

def command(command, light_ip)
  case command
  when 'on'
    on(light_ip)
  when 'off'
    off(light_ip)
  when 'temperature'
    temperature(light_ip, DETAIL1)
  when 'brightness'
    brightness(light_ip, DETAIL1)
  when 'theme'
    temperature(light_ip, DETAIL1)
    brightness(light_ip, DETAIL2)
  when 'info'
    info(light_ip)
  else
    raise "Unknown COMMAND #{COMMAND}"
  end
end

LIGHTS.each { |light_ip| puts command(COMMAND, light_ip) }

You can place this code in /usr/local/bin under elgato name with executable permissions and then you can just:

elgato on # turn your lights on
elgato off # turn your lights off
elgato info # get info on your lights
elgato brightness 50 # set brightness to 50%
elgato temperature 280 # make  light temperature quite warm

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