Philips Hue triggers & scenes

thayoung1

Is it possible to activate a scene from the Hue App on Homey? Or do I have to set each lights settings?

And is it possible to use a light as a trigger, eg when my Hue White light in the garden switches on due to motion, switch the other Hue white garden lights (without motion detection) on.

If these features are not supported, what is the path for me to request such functionality?

MartijnDeRhoter

On a related note - is it possible to read the active parameters for a Hue light before changing them?

Let's say I want to change the color to bright yellow for 5 seconds, how do I restore the original color and brightness cafterwards?

Hue lights make such good visual indicators, but I don't want to have to manually reconfigure them to whatever color and brightness they were set to. Especially because I might have configured that with a smart phone.

caseda

@thayoung1
Question one:
Searching the forum found this about activating a scene:
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/comment/11274/#Comment_11274
and the whole lot below.

Question 2:
This is not possible (yet) at the moment, at least not until the Zigbee Light Link is implemented.
In the mean time you could use a different motion sensor that is working with homey like a KaKu one. (APIR-2150).

@MartijnDeRhoter
At the moment it is not possible to read the current hue & brightness.
Could not find the message quickly of one of the athom people but they were stating that they were looking at a way to check the brightness and hue without it having too much impact on the performance of homey.
(polling would be a pretty resource intensive task with a few hue bulbs)
Maybe this will change once the Zigbee protocol is implemented.

Edit: Typo
Edit 2: Woooh "old" post oops, answer anyway.!

MartijnDeRhoter

Thanks Caseda!

thayoung1

Thank you for the reply @caseda.

Q1
The use of the 'Simple HTTP' App should work for me as a tech-man. It would be better for normal consumers to do so via the Hue App. @Emile, is there a place where I can post feature requests for the Hue App?

Q2
I'm very curious what's possible when Zigbee Light Link is implemented. Isn't it an alternative to do something with Insights? e.g. when a light switches on it appears on insights / is an event or something which starts a flow?

Keep up the good work!

Rocodamelshe

Looks to me u can get the status and brightness from the hue bridge with HTTP GET?
API of hue bridge is open so?

MartijnDeRhoter

You're absolutely right: http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started

Now all I have to is wait for the BetterLogic app to be able to handle the GET response and use the values in a variable


Edit: wow, that's amazingly simple. One wget and it's all there!

Uranday

MartijnDeRhoter said:

You're absolutely right: http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started

Now all I have to is wait for the BetterLogic app to be able to handle the GET response and use the values in a variable


Edit: wow, that's amazingly simple. One wget and it's all there!

Get responses are in the next release (or you can get it from github and test )

MartijnDeRhoter

I will! I sure hope better flow management (sort / copy / paste / backup / auto save when you look at another flow) makes it into the firmware soon. Especially that last one. Quite an evil design.