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In the depths of my hard drive, I recently stumbled upon an interesting project I started working a year ago. But never really took off at that time. After working with various SIEM tooling for several years, I had become a big fan of Microsoft Sentinel. The fact that it was cloud-based and from Microsoft was less appealing (yes, I am still an open-source and Linux fan), but working with KQL was a breath of fresh air compared to the regex hell and GUI systems of other SIEMs....

Introduction Two and a half year ago Signify announced the integration of Philips Hue and Spotify. This integration allows you to sync your lights with the music you are listening to. Spotify will control the lights directly, while the music is playing on your phone, tablet or computer. This is a great feature, but it can only be controlled from the Hue app or the Google Assistant. To integrate this feature in for example Home Assistant, the only option is to use the Google Assistant API....