Morning all, I have a Hue dimmer switch and would like to the use standard binding to read it’s button value. So far I have been using a network binding but given that the Hue binding also supports dimmer switches I’d liek to change to “standard”. The documentation only states examples where I wou…

Automatic discovery in hue binding works also with dimmer switch and motion sensor. Are sure you are running latest version of the binding? And if you want to create an things file here’s my configuration for reference: Bridge hue:bridge:livingroom "Hue Bridge" @ "Livingroom" [ ipAddress="xxx.xxx.…

How would I know? I installed 2 weeks ago it via Paper UI and thus assume it pulls the most recent version. The version number state it binding-hue - 2.3.0 , the author is Telekom. Under supported devices, however, I only see bulbs and smart plugs, no switches (type 0820)

See here [image] HowTo: Use Philips Hue sensors (Motion Sensor / Dimmer Switch) Tutorials & Examples The new feature has been merged today. You will have to wait for the next snapshot or milestone build. A preview on the documentation . You should be runni…

ah ok. so the next question from a newbie then would be: how do I install a snapshot which has this feature merged?

What version of openHAB are you running and do you know how to manually install bindings? Here’s a download link for test version which I’m using for now also: https://github.com/eclipse/smarthome/files/2567639/org.eclipse.smarthome.binding.hue-0.10.0-SNAPSHOT.jar.zip

I’m on 2.3 and no, I don’t know how to install bindings manually

Here’s a section of documentation about it: Installation of Add-ons | openHAB Find out where the addons folder is and that’s where you should place the .jar file you downloaded from previous link. Before this you have to uninstall the current hue binding through PaperUI. Now the new binding should …

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[Philips Hue] Register new dimmer switch as thing

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gitMiguel (Miika Jukka) December 7, 2018, 10:28am 9

For the future questions read parts #5 #6 form here How to ask a good question.

For now I added few tags and added [Philips hue] to the title.