Control Philips Hue lights via Bluetooth LE — no bridge required.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. Hue BLE MCP MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Control Philips Hue lights via Bluetooth LE — no bridge required.
An MCP server that lets Claude control Philips Hue lights via Bluetooth LE — no Hue Bridge or internet connection required.
The server publishes 8 tools. What each one is for:
scan_hue_lights — Discover nearby Hue BLE lights and get their addressesturn_on — Turn a light onturn_off — Turn a light offset_brightness — Set brightness 1–100%set_color_temperature — Set white color temperature (2000K warm → 6500K cool)set_color — Set RGB colorget_light_state — Read current power, brightness, and color modeset_scene — Apply a preset: relax, energize, concentrate, reading, nightlight, brightThe server ships on PyPI as hue-ble-mcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Configuration is passed through the environment: HUE_LIGHT_ADDRESS. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Hue BLE MCP's toolset — scan_hue_lights, turn_on, turn_off and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by jonnyblankinship; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| scan_hue_lights | Discover nearby Hue BLE lights and get their addresses |
| turn_on | Turn a light on |
| turn_off | Turn a light off |
| set_brightness | Set brightness 1–100% |
| set_color_temperature | Set white color temperature (2000K warm → 6500K cool) |
| set_color | Set RGB color |
| get_light_state | Read current power, brightness, and color mode |
| set_scene | Apply a preset: relax, energize, concentrate, reading, nightlight, bright |
{
"mcpServers": {
"hue-ble": {
"command": "/absolute/path/to/hue-ble-mcp/venv/bin/python",
"args": ["/absolute/path/to/hue-ble-mcp/server.py"],
"env": {
"HUE_LIGHT_ADDRESS": ""
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| HUE_LIGHT_ADDRESS | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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