Control Aputure and amaran studio lights through amaran Desktop. Adjust each light’s brightness and color temperature, switch to named scenes such as recording or normal, and save the current setup for later recall.
Controls Aputure and amaran studio lights via the amaran Desktop WebSocket API: named scenes, per-light brightness and color temp, save the current state. USE WHEN lights recording, lights normal, recording lights, set lights for recording, studio lights, light scene, dim the key light, set the lights, lights too bright, save this lighting, green screen lights. NOT FOR house/Hue lights or thermostat (a home-control skill), studio audio, or video editing.
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See how to installStudioLights controls Aputure and amaran studio lights through amaran Desktop. It can adjust brightness and color temperature for individual lights, recall named scenes such as “recording” or “normal,” and save the current lighting state under a scene name. After a change, it checks the state reported by the lights.
Use it to prepare lighting before recording or filming, dim a key light, or switch to lighting for a green screen. Saving a scene lets you recall an adjusted setup by name later. The skill is limited to studio lights; it does not control household lights or thermostats, studio audio, or video editing.
amaran Desktop is required to connect to the lights. First use requires registering the lights and setting up scenes. Some lights cannot set color temperature. If you rename a scene, update any shortcut or macro that calls it by name.
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Not counted in the score. Rated by AI (OpenAI Codex) as of Oct 28, 2026. Treat it as a guide and read the original before installing.
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Deterministic control of a studio lighting rig through amaran Desktop's local WebSocket API (ws://127.0.0.1:33782/ws, protocol v2 — the same local API the official Bitfocus Companion module uses). The tool auto-launches amaran Desktop if it isn't running.
Tools/Lights.ts against the rig the USER tree's devices.json and scenes.json define; no fixture, name or level is assumed from this skill.| Intent | Trigger | File |
|---|---|---|
| Control | "recording", "set the lights", "light scene", "dim X", "save this lighting" | Intents/Control.md |
| File | Read when |
|---|---|
Setup.md | first-time setup: amaran Desktop, finding node IDs, and writing devices.json and scenes.json |
The rig lives in the USER tree, never in this skill: LIFEOS/USER/CUSTOMIZATIONS/SKILLS/StudioLights/devices.json holds each fixture's name, node ID, model and whether it has color temperature, and scenes.json holds the saved scenes. Free-form notes about the rig (where each light stands, what each scene is for, which Shortcut or macro calls a scene by name) go in Config.md in the same folder; the tool never reads it. First-time setup, including how to find node IDs and a worked example of a voice trigger, is in Setup.md.
Tools/Lights.ts exits with an error pointing at Setup.md when devices.json is missing; Lights.ts devices lists the node IDs to put in it and runs before the file exists. The tool finds that folder from its own skill folder's name, so the skill folder and its USER folder must share a name.
Lights.ts launches it and waits up to 30s. If it opens signed out, it reports no lights; sign in once in its window.cct: 0 and ignore color-temperature writes. Mark them "supportsCct": false in devices.json and the tool skips CCT for them; Lights.ts devices guesses this for you.Lights.ts builds it for every request.scenes.json, so update the caller when you rename. A Shortcuts "Run Shell Script" action works on a Mac only.Example 1: Recording
User: "recording" / "set lights for recording"
→ Control intent
→ bun Tools/Lights.ts scene recording
→ Lights move to the levels saved in the recording scene
Example 2: Back to normal
User: "lights back to normal"
→ Control intent
→ bun Tools/Lights.ts scene normal
→ Each light reports back at the normal scene's levels
Example 3: Tune and persist
User: "key light to 30%" ... "perfect, save this as recording"
→ Control intent
→ bun Tools/Lights.ts set key --intensity 30
→ bun Tools/Lights.ts scene save recording
→ The recording scene now holds the levels the user tuned
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