Dim Hue bulbs up / down

rabell

I have recently purchased my Homey and am looking to integrate Hue bulbs with a Nodon switch.  I have linked the switch and this switches my bulbs on / off without issue but I want to use a long hold to dim up / down.  The long hold card for the Nodon is fine and triggers a flow but there doesn't appear to be a dim up or dim down card with Hue.

Am I missing something simple?  Is there any way to achieve this through Homey?

JasperB

There is an action card for hue which sets the brightness of the lamp 
It;s called something like "change the brightness over time"

rabell

Hi @JasperB , I was experimenting with this but it appears to take the lights to a pre-determined level within x seconds rather than dim up / down by % percentage?  Thanks

swttt

If you keep a button pressed (long press) does the flow keeps activating or just activates once?

rabell

@swttt ; I think the flow is activated once - any logs I can check to validate?  Either way I cannot see a card to react by dimming up / down by a % rather than to a set level

caseda

its true, that is no such card in homey directly for dimming up xx% (or down)
we can work around it a little thought, by using these flow cards and 1 number logic value, all things build into homey. 



AND card is because 1.00 (100%) is the maximum dim level of all lights.
for down it would of course be is larger then 0

then we will calculate the dim value the lamp has now, using the global token of the lamp, and add 0.05 (5%) to it.
i usually use 5% myself as that is a pretty good value to increment on.

and then set that logic value to the light, on a 1 second delay.

if you want to dim multiple lights at the same time (all philips hue), i would recommend to instead of instantly changing the light (like i show now), to use the countdown timer app, and set that timer to 1 second (so this card instead of the bulb card), and then create 1 extra flow to transmit the dim level to the hue bulb when the timer runs out, cause philips hue limits the amount triggers (10) that can happen every second to the bridge, with 1 light this won't exceed, but with 2 lights this already can exceed when doing it little longer, and will exceed with 3 lights

skoni

@caseda,

Why isn't that working in my case? 

caseda

@skoni
your AND flow card (tag place) is empty, how would homey know what you want smaller then 1?
and you only turn on the lamp, you do not change the dim level with the calculated new dim level, so it would never change, just turn on

skoni

caseda said:

@skoni
your AND flow card (tag place) is empty, how would homey know what you want smaller then 1?
and you only turn on the lamp, you do not change the dim level with the calculated new dim level, so it would never change, just turn on

Thanks, I notice that myself, point is I can't find the tag for the lamp. It is not in the tag list. By the lamp device (zet helderheid) there is only the dim adjust instead of "zet helderheid #lamp"

caseda

@skoni you can place any number tag on the (dim) slider, it will overwrite the slider

cbh

Not trying to hijack - or only a little, at least:
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/3486/dimming-variable-the-perfect-flow

No ideas from people yet - perhaps it is the perfect flow already? ;-)

skoni

caseda said:

@skoni you can place any number tag on the (dim) slider, it will overwrite the slider

Sorry I can not overwrite the slider, the text box is gray but i can not fill in a name.

skoni

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mrKayne

caseda said:

its true, that is no such card in homey directly for dimming up xx% (or down)
we can work around it a little thought, by using these flow cards and 1 number logic value, all things build into homey. 



AND card is because 1.00 (100%) is the maximum dim level of all lights.
for down it would of course be is larger then 0

then we will calculate the dim value the lamp has now, using the global token of the lamp, and add 0.05 (5%) to it.
i usually use 5% myself as that is a pretty good value to increment on.

and then set that logic value to the light, on a 1 second delay.

if you want to dim multiple lights at the same time (all philips hue), i would recommend to instead of instantly changing the light (like i show now), to use the countdown timer app, and set that timer to 1 second (so this card instead of the bulb card), and then create 1 extra flow to transmit the dim level to the hue bulb when the timer runs out, cause philips hue limits the amount triggers (10) that can happen every second to the bridge, with 1 light this won't exceed, but with 2 lights this already can exceed when doing it little longer, and will exceed with 3 lights

Hey,

I might be doing something wrong, because it doesnt work...

How should it work? When pressing and holding the button down, it should dim the light from 1 to 0 with a 0.05 increment, right?

Also would it be possible to make it keep dimming until the button is no longer pressed? 

yemoH

Great idea to dim the Hue light bulbs. Since there is now an else option available, I took the liberty to add a bit of functionality to the flow. When the brightness is over 0.9, the brightness is set at 100%. The minus button on the Soft Remote decreases the brightness with 0.10. Good way of spending my (Friday) Homey night.