Never been one to let the carrier drop

So, I found a major lack of documentation for Device::Hue, and chatGPT had some information that I would describe as whimsically wrong.

Here’s what I ended up doing to get a working perl setup controlling my hue lights:

1) Put a valid URL in /etc/environment for the key HUE_BRIDGE
2) Put a key in /etc/environment for the key HUE_KEY
3) The following code sets lights 17 and 19 to red:

my $bridge = Device::Hue->new();

$bridge->config();

foreach $light_id (17, 19) {

   my $light = $bridge->light($light_id);

   $light->set_state( { hue => 0, sat => 254 });

   $light->commit();

}

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