HowTo: Use Philips Hue sensors (Motion Sensor / Dimmer Switch)

skatun · November 2, 2018, 2:26pm

This requires a different HUB, any recommendations on this. Also I can not find any discussion on the HUE motion sensor in here with native zigbee binding, do you have a link to how to implement it?

Kim_Andersen · November 2, 2018, 2:38pm

Search for Zigbee binding.

curlyel · November 3, 2018, 5:55pm

Sure:

Master79 · November 4, 2018, 1:39pm

Hi Christoph.
After updating to milestone M5 i get this error every 6-8 hours.

2018-11-04 02:08:31.716 [ERROR] [org.openhab.io.net.http.HttpUtil    ] - Fatal transport error: java.net.SocketException: Too many open files
2018-11-04 02:08:31.717 [ERROR] [ab.binding.http.internal.HttpBinding] - No response received from 'http://192.168.1.118/api/***/s$2Fmp/sensors/11'
2018-11-04 02:08:32.224 [hingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'hue:bridge:0017****' changed from ONLINE to OFFLINE: Verbindung zur Hue Bridge unterbrochen.

I have wrote a new topic for this, but now i see that sensor11 is a motion sensor which works with your code. The refresh intervall ist 750. Before updating to M5 all runs okay. Now the system makes a restart. And the cpu load increases up to 6% in the middle from 2% before.

Switch   HueMotion1           "HueMotion1"               {http="<[http://192.168.1.118/api/***/sensors/11:750:JS(getHueMotion.js)]"}

(function(i) {
     var json = JSON.parse(i);
     return ((json['state']['presence'])) == true ? "ON" : "OFF";
             })(input)

Has there something changed to stable 2.3?
Thanks and greetings,
Markus

cweitkamp · November 4, 2018, 8:31pm

Hi Markus,

I am pretty sure a lot of stuff has changed since OH2.3 but I cannot imagine something which is related to the HTTP binding. I do not poll my sensors with such a high frequency. And the HttpUtil uses a default timeout of 5 seconds. Maybe you have to look deeper into that to solve your issue.

gitMiguel · November 9, 2018, 1:13pm

Hi @cweitkamp

I saw in github that you are taking over to implement motion sensor support into the hue binding itself. Is the plan to only support motion sensor or is the dimmer switch also in the todo list? One other thing that I saw was the internal scenes of hue api. See this thread. Would a scene selector also be something to implement in the binding?

P.S. Looking forward for your work and to test the new features of the binding

cweitkamp · November 9, 2018, 1:29pm

Hi Miika,

Yes, that is true. I already put some code together to make it stable and usable for others. I would love to provide a test version for everyone who is interested. The current solution will support the Hue Motion Sensor - splitted up into three different things (motion sensor, temperature sensor and illumination sensor) - and the Dimmer Switch as well.

I agree with you that scene support will be a great feature too. But first I will focus on the sensor support.

skatun · November 9, 2018, 1:53pm

I am very interested un testing out your binding,

Wouldn’t it be more logical to implement the physical thing as a thing and that the thing has channels such as motion,time,temperature and lux?

gitMiguel · November 9, 2018, 1:56pm

Then it would have multiple “last updated” channels for example. I think separate things are much better. Even every lightbulb is its own thing under hue bridge.

cweitkamp · November 9, 2018, 1:58pm

I will prepare a test version later this day and link it here.

Yes and No. See this discussion why we split it up.

cweitkamp · November 9, 2018, 10:01pm

You can download a test version here. Please play around with the new sensors, discover all features and let me know if some thing went wrong. Have fun.

// EDIT: I changed the link.

Kai · November 9, 2018, 10:16pm

Err, just out of curiosity: How did you manage to get that commit into the ESH repo…?

cweitkamp · November 9, 2018, 10:33pm

Hm… interesting. I will PM you.

gcouch · November 10, 2018, 10:31am

Hi @cweitkamp

Appears to be working ok so far. Tested adding Things/Items via Paper UI and manually via my Things/Items file and both ways were fine and data is being reported back.

Will monitor it over the weekend.

cweitkamp · November 10, 2018, 12:52pm

Nice. May I ask you to watch for the performance / load of your CPU beside the new features? The default polling interval is high (500ms) to havr a reliable motion detection.

gcouch · November 10, 2018, 1:07pm

Will do. Any particular command etc you want me to use?

BobMiles · November 10, 2018, 6:48pm

Dear Christoph,

wow, that was quick! I’m really looking forward to use your latest additions.
I have no IDE set up yet and I’m on stable 2.3, so I guess I can’t use it yet, but I’ll see to that when I have a bit more time at hand.

cweitkamp · November 11, 2018, 6:18pm

No, nothing special.

Yes, that is right. You need at least OH2.4.M5 milestone.

gcouch · November 11, 2018, 7:19pm

No issues to report so far.

gitMiguel · November 12, 2018, 10:30am

Dropping this into my addons folder doesn’t trigger anything visible. It just won’t start or even resolve the binding. Karaf console shows nothing related to hue binding.

What I’ve tried is:

Remove the current snapshot hue binding installed through paperui->addons
Copy test version to addons folder
Restart oh multiple times with and without cleaning cache
Updated oh to latest snapshot build #1422

One weirdness that I observed was when I removed or installed the current version few other bindings got restarted. Those bindings were astro, network and systeminfo bindings. Also dashboard and all uis got restarted.

Next I tried to revert back and install current snapshot. It worked just fine and it discovered my hue bridge.

So my question is: How to properly debug this?