Dimmer Control Multiple Hue Bulbs

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
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Hello,

As mentioned in another post I am trying to switch over to OH 2.0 and I’m running into a few small issues. What I’m looking at now is I have 2 lights in a ceiling fan. They are Philips Hue regular white bulbs. Now each bulbs is showing as a thing. I’ve created 2 items for each thing. A Switch and a Dimmer, however I think I read last night that you don’t need both and can just use a dimmer item? Am I correct in stating that? So for each bulb in the thing, I linked them to the proper items. However, the switch worked and the dimmer did not.

Also I know in 1.8 in order to get my lights to work together I had to set up a dummy switch/dimmer and had to run a rule. When I was looking at the thing I see you can link to multiple switches/dimmers. I tried to link both lights to the same switch and another dimmer and this did not work. I got no response from the lights. Is this not how it is to work? If not, how do you setup multiple lights to 1 switch and or dimmer.

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From what i understand it should work that way.
Another option is to use a group with grouptype dimmer and add both individual dimmers to that group. If you link a switch item to a dimmer channel it just maps On and OFF to 100 and 0 respectively so you don’t need a switch. I control all my Hue bulbs with dimmers/Colorpickers, i only use the switches, so i can have an all lights group to switch everything off.

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Thanks for the response I’ll try doing the groups again and see how that goes. It did seem to start working a little bit ago but I could be wrong.