LightPanel is a simple desktop application for controlling Philips Hue lighting systems. It is built with Xamarin.Mac and the C# programming language. It connects to a Hue base station on the local network and sends commands using the Hue REST API.

• It comes with several custom user interface elements that were created with the assistance of PaintCode, including a custom toggle-switch control.
• It requires Mono 3.0 because async/await are used for the REST API calls.
• The settings dialog hasn't been implemented yet, so you have to paste a local network IP address and access hash for your Hue base station into the code before you compile.
• It uses the colorspace conversion library from the Q42.HueApi project.
• I originally wanted this application to be a menubar agent, but there are bugs in NSPopover that make it work badly with NSStatusItem.