May I ask for your use-cases? Now I am eager to make something really smart. Integration of the Hue Tap Switch was straight forward. Now I would like to implement a Profile which can be used with it. Are you already familiar with Profiles? To summarize it: A profile is similar to a rule and a lot faster.
One of my ideas: Use it as a simple remote control for you music / tv / etc.
I have a Kodi instance and a couple of bulbs for ambilght. Press “Button 1” turns ON and OFF the bulbs or starts playing my favorite radio station. Press “Button 3” triggers a PLAY/PAUSE command for Kodi. Press “Button 2” or “Button 4” increases/decreases the volume.
One of my first use cases will be ‘integration’ with my alarm system; e.g. when I press Button 1 the lights will just turn off, but when I press Button 3 the alarm will also be triggered after 60 seconds.
Anoher use case I have in mind is a ‘go to bed’ scenario. I don’t always want to talk to an Echo device, but just press a button to trigger a series of events, like step by step dimming and finally turning off lights, close blinds, turn on the alarm, and turn on the bedroom lights.
I am not yet familiar with profiles. So far, just read about it…
UPDATE: To clarify my use cases a lttle… my Taps are mounted ‘in wall’ behind Busch-Jaeger frames and not stand-alone like they are sold by Philips.
My Hue Tab is already paired with some Hue bulbs. But I would use Button1 to turn on or off another bulb in the same room. All I need is a simple rule that I have already programmed.
Unfortunately I do not know anything about profiles, could you briefly explain them?
For all other simple ON/OFF switching I use “Amazon Dash Buttons”, they are cheaper.
No, the Hue binding does not have specific profiles yet. The profiles listed in the documentation are system profiles which can be used on any item link you like.
Now my idea is to introduce a Hue specific profile for the Dimmer Switch and Tap Switch. It would allow you to omit the rule but offers a very flexible way to configuring it for your purpose.
In haven’t used profiles before, but reading the documentation it seems pretty straightforward. Just to be sure I am not missing anything, I have a question about usage of the standard trigger channel profiles.
Let’s take the example from the OH documentation, modified for the Hue dimmer switch:
Color Bedroom_Light {channel="hue:0210:1:bulb1:color", channel="hue:0820:xxxxxxxxxxxx:dim_bedroom:dimmer_switch" [profile="rawbutton-toggle-switch"]}
Using profiles, I assume it is not possible to link it to a specific event, like ‘1003’ so it handles a long press of button 1?
I am not sure if one of the existing trigger profiles will work with the Hue Switches. Most of them need a PRESSED event to be dispatched.
Not yet. But that is exactly the feature I want to add for Hue specific profiles . I already put together a simple piece of code for an ON-OFF- toggle and a PLAY-PAUSE-toggle example. I did not test it so far. Maybe I find a second to upload it later this day.
If it will work the configuration will look like this:
OK, I’ll stop saying thank you after this (Thank You ), but its great to see the Hue binding getting some serious attention and updates!
May I suggest one little ‘fix’ for the binding: wouldn’t it be better to get rid of the ‘.0’ of all events. In the Hue bridge they are all without the extra decimal.
Thank you too. It helps a lot if there are reputable people out there who help testing and who giving useful feedback instead of complaining. Makes a lot more fun .
Here is a test version for the Hue specific profiles. I implemented three different version for testing: “Hue Toggle Switch Profile”, “Hue Toggle Player Profile” and “Hue Generic Command Profile” - I hope the names are self explanatory. For an example how you can use them see here.
This test version contains a fix for the events triggered on startup too.
Some initial results from quick tests of the binding:
There is some dependency issue with the mqttgeneric binding, which results in repeated attempts to install the oh240 version of the Hue binding as well (set to Installed state). Probably an issue with that binding? BTW, I run 2.4.0 Release Build.
[ERROR] [core.karaf.internal.FeatureInstaller] - Failed installing 'openhab-binding-mqttgeneric': Error restarting bundles:
Could not resolve module: org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.hue [220]
Another singleton bundle selected: osgi.identity; osgi.identity="org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.hue"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="0.11.0.201901011457"; singleton:="true"
For the Hue Tap devices events seem to be triggered only once every few attempts (key presses) if I set the parameters: sensorPollingInterval=200, pollingInterval=5. With the defaults, it is about one missing event every 5-6 presses of a Tap switch.
No events are triggered on startup anymore.
I tried the toggle switch profile which does turn the light and switch on/off (with the restriction mentioned before):
I could not reproduce the missing event issue anymore after restarting the bundle, neither with the defaults nor with the shorter polling times. The weird thing is that when the binding missed a key pressed event in my initial test, the Hue bridge did detect the key pressed status and fired its own rule (I still have Hue rules defined for the Taps).
The Dimmer Switch also works with the toggle-switch profile for toggling a Hue light on and off.
While doing key press stress tests with the Tap, at a certain moment there was an event “98.0” when I accidentally pressed both key “17.0” and “18.0” at the same time:
[model.script.HUErule.TapSwitch.Event] - HUE Tap Remote switch event hue:0830:xxxxxxxxxxxx:tap_dining:tap_switch_event triggered 98.0
With both “16.0” and “34.0” pressed, event “101.0” is triggered. In my setup it is physically impossible to press other combinations at the same time because the switch is behind a wall-mounted Busch-Jaeger frame and toggle switch, but I guess there are more combinations possible. Anyone with a Tap switch still in tact care to test?
Just read about the new profiles and it seems those make life a lot easier.
(Reminds me of creating groups in KNX …)
Will you update the binding shortly the “official” way or is this only possible in 2.5?
Thanks for detailed testing. I tried to reproduce your findings with my Hue Dimmer Switch but it was not possible. I never received a “combined event” like you. Maybe a Busch-Jaeger specific behavior?
Everything has to go the “official” way (snapshot, milestone, release) … I already submitted a work-in-progress Pull Request.
. I already put together a simple piece of code for an ON-OFF- toggle and a PLAY-PAUSE-toggle example. I did not test it so far. Maybe I find a second to upload it later this day.
), but its great to see the Hue binding getting some serious attention and updates!
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