Control Sonos alarm with Philips HUE Dimmer

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Hello all

This might not seem very advanced, yet quite neat. With inspiration from this post about creating a Sonos alarm with Philips HUE light dimming :slight_smile:

I figured out, that more important than the dimming functionality, I really wanted to be able to control the Sonos alarm with a physical button when it was live. I had a bunch og Phillips HUE dimmer switches lying around, so aimed for these. To save you all from figuring out youselves, I am therefore posting my code for

  1. Turn up the volume
  2. turn down the volume
  3. Snooze the alarm (practically pause and continue after a defined amount of time)
  4. turn of the alarm - and read out the weather forecast.

My dimmer switch is set up as a sensor “sensor.sovevrelse_switch” and basically the 4 below automations perform:

(the “Klik” numbers corresponds to the button numbers on the remote in HA)

“klik 4” : call script to turn off the alarm
“klik 3” : call script to turn down volume
“klik 2” : call script to turn up volume
“klik 1” : Call script to snooze for X minutes

Automations.yaml
- id: Soveværelse remote klik 4
alias: Soveværelse remote klik 4
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id: sensor.sovevrelse_switch
to: ‘4_click’

  action:
    - service: script.sovevrelse_sluk_alarm
      entity_id: media_player.sovevrelse_2
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- id: Soveværelse remote klik 2
  alias: Soveværelse remote klik 2
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.sovevrelse_switch
      to: '2_click'

  action:
    - service: script.sovevrelse_skru_op
      entity_id: media_player.sovevrelse_2
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- id: Soveværelse remote klik 3
  alias: Soveværelse remote klik 3
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.sovevrelse_switch
      to: '3_click'

  action:
    - service: script.sovevrelse_skru_ned
      entity_id: media_player.sovevrelse_2
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- id: Soveværelse remote klik 1
  alias: Soveværelse remote klik 1
  trigger:
    - platform: state
      entity_id: sensor.sovevrelse_switch
      to: '1_click'

  action:
    - service: script.sovevrelse_snooze
      entity_id: media_player.sovevrelse_2
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Scripts.yaml

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  sovevrelse_snooze:
    alias: "sovevrelse_snooze"
    sequence:
     - service: media_player.media_play_pause
       data:
         entity_id: "media_player.sovevrelse_2"
     - delay: '00:10:00'
     - service: media_player.media_play_pause
       data_template:
         entity_id: "media_player.sovevrelse_2"
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  sovevrelse_skru_op:
    alias: "sovevrelse_skru_op"
    sequence:
     - service: media_player.volume_set
       entity_id: media_player.sovevrelse_2
       data_template:
         volume_level: '{{ states.media_player.sovevrelse_2.attributes.volume_level + 0.05 }}'
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  sovevrelse_skru_ned:
    alias: "sovevrelse_skru_ned"
    sequence:
     - service: media_player.volume_set
       entity_id: media_player.sovevrelse_2
       data_template:
         volume_level: '{{ states.media_player.sovevrelse_2.attributes.volume_level - 0.05 }}'
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  sovevrelse_sluk_alarm:
    alias: "sovevrelse_sluk_alarm"
    sequence:
     - service: media_player.sonos_snapshot
       data_template:
         entity_id: "media_player.sovevrelse_2"
     - service: tts.google_say
       data_template:
         entity_id: "media_player.sovevrelse_2"
         message: Goodmorning Michael, the alarm has been turned off for today. The weatherforecast for today is - {{states ('sensor.dark_sky_hourly_summary')}}. Hight temperature {{states ('sensor.dark_sky_daily_high_temperature_0') | int}} degrees, low temperature {{states ('sensor.dark_sky_daily_low_temperature_0') | int}} degrees
     - delay: '00:00:16'
     - service: media_player.sonos_restore
       data_template:
         entity_id: "media_player.sovevrelse_2"
     - delay: '00:00:02'
     - service: media_player.media_play_pause
       data_template:
         entity_id: "media_player.sovevrelse_2"
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Maybe you can use it.

/Michael.

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Hi Michael,
This is a brilliant idea, I would love to do the same. But for some reason my Hue Dimmer Switches are not showing up in HA. Did you do anything special to get them visible? I just used the Hue Component from the Integration Page, to expose my Hue devices.

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You need to add Robin Cole’s custom component to get the sensors. It works by repeatedly polling the Hue bridge (several times a second), which seems untidy, but it’s the only real option and, surprisingly, doesn’t seem to impact the Hue system or HA too much.

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Thanks quentinsf. Found it and installed it. It works.
Now I will try to make the above in Node-Red

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Hello Brian

I have actually not done anything to make them visible, other than ofcourse have the discovery feature enabled.
The only thing I have in my configuration.yaml is

  - platform: hue
    ip_address: 192.168.0.99 #- My HUE Bridge address
    token: very-long-number-found-via-the-api

Robin Coles componet sounds promising, and I’ll have a look at that (thanks quentinsf !).

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Oh, and ignore the bit in that component’s README about 0.8 being the only stable version. I think everybody is just using the most recent version.