I want to use a Hue Dimmer Switch to start a timer. Is this possible?
Or - if this is not possible - I could purchase a Fibaro button? Can that do the trick?
I need 4 timers and one device.
What do you mean by timer? Doing something a fer a fixed amount of time like turning off the lights?
A kitchen timer I created for brewing tea:
timer:
green_tea:
duration: "00:02:30"
When it finishes it flashes the lights:
- alias: Timerstop
id: Timerstop
trigger:
- id: lawngreen
platform: event
event_type: timer.finished
event_data:
entity_id: timer.green_tea
action:
- service: light.turn_on
target:
entity_id: light.hue_iris
data:
brightness: 255
color_name: '{{ trigger.id }}'
flash: long
Instead of pressing an entity on my phone I want a button on my kitchen counter.
Yes
My dimmer is paired with my Hue gateway v1 and with some add-on that I can’t remember (but I can find it if needed) gives me an entity
Here I can see that the event was button three release (dim down).
If you pair it with a normal zigbee stick then I’m fairly sure you can get the same-ish thing from the events.
I see, connect it with a zigbee stick might give me a switch entity. Currently (connected to the HUE bridge) they only show the battery sensor. Option 2 is purchase a Z-Wave button (because I already have a Z-Wave stick).
Thanks!
If you have the hue bridge then use this:
It will give you a sensor with the latest button push
Found and installed it. Is there a manual somewhere? I’m sort of stuck on the automation code.
Do you have a sensor that shows the button presses now? And it works?
I have a sensor, but can’t find whether it is connected to the right remote, and where I can see the button presses. When I added the event sensor I gave it the same name as the remote in the Hue app, is that the right way to do it?
Not sure, it was more than a year since I set it up.
But what happens when you press the remote, does the state change on the sensor?
Not sure. In history I see it has had a bad_state for days.