Cannot control Hue Bulbs

[KingVanilla (Owen Hardy)]

I cannot figure out how to link my bulbs to my sitemap, I’ve scoured the forum for solutions but nothing seems to be working. I’m assuming that there’s something wrong with the syntax of my binding configuration in my .items file, I have posted all of the files below.

.items

Switch Light1_Toggle {channel=“hue:LCT014:1:0017886c54f4:color” }

.sitemap

Switch item=Light1_Toggle

Things

Any suggestions?

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

The channel you are using in the Item is very different from the Thing ID. Usually, the channel ID is the [Thing ID][Channel].

Click on your Thing in PaperUI and it will show a list of channels. Next to each channel there is a little icon which, if you click on it will copy the channel ID to the clipboard.

Copy and paste this into your .items file to ensure your channel ID is correct.

[KingVanilla (Owen Hardy)]

@rlkoshak

Copy and paste this into your .items file to ensure your channel ID is correct.

Still no luck…

Switch Light1_Toggle {channel=“hue:0210:0017886c54f4:4:color”}

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

When you click on the up/down icon to the right of the channel in PaperUI, does it show the channel and being linked to this Item?

[LuFriFri (Lutz Fricke)]

I think SWITCH for the color feature is wrong, try it like this:

Switch	Hue1_Toggle		"Farblampe 1"			<colorwheel>	(gHue1, gHueToggleWZ) 								{ channel="hue:0210:0017xxxx:3:brightness" }
Dimmer  Hue1_Dimmer		"Dimmer 1 [%.0f %%]"		<light> 	(gHue1) 					 				{ channel="hue:0210:0017xxxx:3:brightness" }
Color 	Hue1_Color		"Farbe 1"				<colorwheel> 	(gHue1,gHueColor) 							{ channel="hue:0210:0017xxxx:3:color" }

[KingVanilla (Owen Hardy)]

@LuFriFri

Switch Hue1_Toggle “Farblampe 1” <colorwheel> (gHue1, gHueToggleWZ)
{channel=“hue:0210:0017xxxx:3:brightness” }

Made no difference…

[KingVanilla (Owen Hardy)]

@rlkoshak

When you click on the up/down icon to the right of the channel in PaperUI, does it show the channel and being linked to this Item?

Funny, yes the thing does show the channels being linked to the items…

[doum (Dominique)]

I think the Switch should work on the color channel.

You should try again:

@KingVanilla

Switch Light1_Toggle {channel=“hue:0210:0017886c54f4:4:color”}

and try to restart OpenHAB.

Trying to Turn On/Off multiple lights at once

Hi guys, just started using and learning about openHAB. As per title, I want one button to turn on/off multiple lights. I’ve grouped them in my lights.items config, and added a Switch in my sitemap, but it isn’t working in Basic UI. The switches come up, I can click on All Off/ All On but it doesn’t physically turn my bulbs on/off. Can someone please double check my code and see what I’ve messed up? Thanks in advance! //This is the Lights Item File //Group Light Switches Group:Switch:OR(ON,O…

[KingVanilla (Owen Hardy)]

It turns out I had BOTH a software and hardware derp!

This indeed work on the software side of things,

@KingVanilla

Switch Light1_Toggle {channel=“hue:0210:0017886c54f4:4:color”}

BUT IT HELPS IF YOU’RE USING THE SAME BULB YOU INITIALLY BOUND! I was trying to control a bulb I put in a lamp upstairs, and I had another bulb with me downstairs that I hadn’t yet linked to OH, oops!