I’m probably just doing something wrong, but what is the proper format/syntax in your items file in OH2 to control a philips hue light? I added this to my items in OH2 and can see the bulb in the sitemap, but can’t seem to turn it on and off? > Switch Light_Family_Left "Family Left" (Garden, …

Finally got it figure out.. For anyone else still struggle with the new item definition syntax, I found the answer here: [image] Hue item definition OpenHAB2 Bindings Hi, What if you add a channel to your item configuration (depending on the bulb you use): …

btw, this is documented here: smarthome/extensions/binding/org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.hue/README.md at master · eclipse-archived/smarthome · GitHub (link to be found on the addons overview at https://github.com/openhab/openhab-distro/blob/master/docs/sources/addons.md )

Hi, the definition in the linked document is as follows: demo.things: Bridge hue:bridge:1 [ ipAddress="192.168.0.64" ] { LCT001 bulb1 [ lightId="1" ] ZLL_Light geBulb [ lightId="2" ] } demo.items: Color Light { channel="hue:LCT001:1:bulb1:color" } Dimmer Light_ColorTemp { channel="hue:L…

[image] dominicdesu: Why do I need to mention the think type (LCT001) and the thing id (bulb1) in the channel definition? isn’t it clear from the things file that thing bulb1 is of type LCT001? These make up the full address of the THING, you can’t use just one section, it much be complete. h…

Thanks for your explanation. I also found out that “1” is not the lightId but the bridgeId. So the channel seems to have this format: binding:thingType:bridge:thing:channel. But then again, when I look at the example above: hue:LWB004:0017881003d0:6:color this would mean that “6” is the name of t…

[image] dominicdesu: How would this be possible? I assume this is possible because the code of the hue binding does not check whether the brightness channel exists on this thing type. As the handler implementation is the same for all thing types, it knows how to deal with brightness, so it si…

Adding Phlips Hue Items

Setup, Configuration and Use Runtime

ptmuldoon (Paul Muldoon) January 28, 2016, 2:36am 2

Finally got it figure out.. For anyone else still struggle with the new item definition syntax, I found the answer here: