Unreliable Philips Hue Dimmer Switch Events with current 2.5 Milestone M4 Build

[Celaeno1 (Alex)]

@regnets

A lot of people having the same problem, including me. It was mentioned long ago. Since 2.5.0-M1. See also here:

Missing button event triggers from Philips/Signify Hue Dimmer Switch

While migrating Hue Dimmer Switch and Hue Tap rules from the Hue bridge to OH 2.5.0.M1, I noticed that the binding seems to be missing button events. For instance, many times when short pressing and releasing button 1 of the Dimmer Switch, only the initial pressed (sometimes) or short released (mostly) is triggered, and sometimes neither. To rule out the bridge itself or interference on the ZigBee mesh network that is causing this, I added a Dimmer Switch Rule (see below) to the bridge that tri…

[SOLVED] Handle Philips Hue dimmer switch events?

After upgrading openhab to 2.5.0.M1 this does not always work

[SOLVED] OpenHAB 2.5.0-M1 breaks Hue remote dimmer channel events

I have a rules file that monitors multiple Hue dimmer switches. It was working fine under 2.4.0. Updating OpenHAB2 to version 2.5.0-M1 seems to break the Hue dimmer_switch_event channel as I can’t see any activity on it. I also didn’t notice anything in the changelog that would suggest any syntax has changed for rules files. Downgrading back to 2.4.0 made the problem go away immediately… This might not be specific to the Hue. Anyone else seeing something similar?

[WORKAROUND] ‘getEvent’ is not a member error [OH 2.5.x]

Apparently, several people (including myself) still have problems using getEvent(). Some comparable threads are marked as “solved”, although the problem still exists. So in order not to forget the issue, I open this thread and hope to find a solution. Please note that different bindings are affected, e.g. Philips Hue, Homematic, MQTT, …) so that this may not be a binding-specific issue. Personally, I still have the problem with the milestone 2.5.0 M3 (it didn’t work with M1 either).

[ERROR] using receivedEvent.getEvent() in a rule