Philips Hue light turn of/onn

Setup, Configuration and Use Items & Sitemaps
1

Hi,

I added the Philips Hue binding to control my Hue lights.
Works perfectky if I add a brightness and colour item. Just set birghtness to 0 and the lights are off.

But now I want a switch in my sitemap to switch it on and off.
But preferably like a group header, so if I’d press the > next to the switch i get into a menu for brightness and colour.

Is that possible?

Thanks

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Yes. I’m using the following setup - inspired by Smart Home mit openHAB 2 (German):

Item-Example:

Group Hue_BR_Wardrobe
    "Hue Kleiderschrank"
    <light>
    (Livingroom, Items)
Switch Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Switch
    "Hue Kleiderschrank Schalter"
    <light>
    (Hue_BR_Wardrobe, GPower, GColor_Lights)
    { channel="hue:0210:xxxxxxxxxxxx:stripe3:color" }
Dimmer Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Brightness
    "Hue Kleiderschrank Helligkeit [%d %%]"
    <light>
    (Hue_BR_Wardrobe)
    { channel="hue:0210:xxxxxxxxxxxx:stripe3:color" }
Color Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Color
    "Hue Kleiderschrank Farbe"
    <colorwheel>
    (Hue_BR_Wardrobe, GColors)
    [ "Lighting" ]
    { channel="hue:0210:xxxxxxxxxxxx:stripe3:color" }
Dimmer Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Temperature
    "Hue Kleiderschrank Farbtemperatur [%d %%]"
    <rgb>
    (Hue_BR_Wardrobe)
   	{ channel="hue:0210:xxxxxxxxxxxx:stripe3:color_temperature" }
String Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Alert
    "Hue Kleiderschrank Alarm"
    <alarm>
    (Hue_BR_Wardrobe)
   	{ channel="hue:0210:xxxxxxxxxxxx:stripe3:alert" }
Switch Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Effect
    "Hue Kleiderschrank Effekt"
    <party>
    (Hue_BR_Wardrobe)
   	{ channel="hue:0210:xxxxxxxxxxxx:stripe3:effect" }

Sitemap-Example:

Switch item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Switch
			label="Lampe Kleiderschrank"
			mappings=[ON="Ein"]
			visibility=[Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Switch != ON]
		Text item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Switch
			label="Lampe Kleiderschrank [MAP(lights.map):%s]"
			valuecolor=[ON="green", OFF="maroon"]
			visibility=[Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Switch == ON] {
			Default item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Brightness
				label="Helligkeit"
			Default item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Temperature
				label="Farbtemperatur"
			Default item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Color
				label="Farbton"
			Switch item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Switch
				label="Lichtband"
				mappings=[OFF="Aus"]
			Switch item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Alert
				label="Alarm [MAP(lights.map):%s]"
				mappings=[NONE="Aus", SELECT="Alarm", LSELECT="Langer Alarm"]
			Selection item=Scene_Hue_Color_Bedroom
				label="Farbszenen"
				mappings=[
					0="Rot",
					120="Grün",
					200="Türkis",
					240="Blau",
					270="Violett",
					370="Warmes Licht"
				]
		} // END Text item=Hue_BR_Wardrobe_Switch
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Hey Felix,

Thanks a lot for the example. This works great for me!

Just one thing when I look at the logging. Inititially it threw a warning (all works like this):

[WARN ] [ui.internal.items.ItemUIRegistryImpl] - couldn’t transform value in label because transformationService of type ‘MAP’ is unavailable

After installing the Map transformation add-on it changed to an error (UI is remarkably slower):

[ERROR] [ui.internal.items.ItemUIRegistryImpl] - transformation throws exception [transformation=org.openhab.transform.map.internal.MapTransformationService@12cebdc, value=ON]

Any ideas on this?

4

in his code he is referencing “light.map’” the file actually containing the required transformations.

Do you have this lights.map file in place?

Br

Roel

5

@Andy_Jansen I’m using a MAP transformation to transform the HUE states in labels into German - you could simply delete these tor use something like my lights.map file:

ON=ist an
OFF=ist aus
NONE=aus
SELECT=kurz
LSELECT=lang
-=undefiniert
6

Check, found it!

Made a new file (for Dutch language). All is working fine now.
Thanks!

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