Just got the Hue binding setup and I am seeing some strange behavior. I have the 2nd Gen A19 bulbs which have a set of white LEDs and a set of color LEDs. There seems to be syncing issue with the channels. Please see the screenshot below. The Dimmer is the “brightness” channel, Whites is the “col…

Been playing with the Hue API and I see it by design, you just have to understand what’s going on. Below is a result of a GET from the bulb. The OH “brightness” channel, and the Brightness setting in the OH “color” channel are one in the same, they change one value in the bulb, “bri”. I misspoke,…

Another note, if the bulb is in “ct” mode, (ie you touched the “color_temperature” slider), and then you turn the “effect” channel on, the bulb just cycles through shades of white. To get color, you need to touch something in the color picker first, which return the bulb to “hs” mode.

[image] shady9191: When I slide the dimmer, the light dims. In the color picker , when I adjust the B value of HSB, the light also dims, BUT the Dimmer slider only updates intermittently. The two are not always in sync. There actually is no brightness channel available for bulbs that have c…

Ok, thanks for the response Kai. In my last round of troubleshooting, I have been only sending an HSB type value to the color channel of a single Hue device. I very quickly lose communication to all Hue devices. Once I get a better idea of the exact sequence that causes the communication drop, I’…

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OH2 Hue Binding - "White" vs. "Color" Mode Issues

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shady9191 (Bryan) June 18, 2016, 12:47am 6

My issues have nothing to do with the Hue Binding, please see https://community.openhab.org/t/intermittant-rule-issue/11663