New user here. - I have written my first automation, a simple one to turn on my passageway lights when motion is detected and to dim them after 5 mins of no_motion and then turn them off a minute later. I had this all set up in the Philips hub and it worked well but some of the lights were not comp…

[image] HemiBob: I could install a ConBee 2 on the RPi, and talk directly to all the devices, cutting out the Hue hub altogether, is that a good idea? This is a very good idea, I can highly recommend it. With the ConBee you get instant feedback from your motion sensors/lights, whereas with th…

Thanks for that, yes I’ve been Googling for hours and came to the conclusion that a ConBee would be a good investment. Will sleep on it and order it in the morning.

[image] Making the Hue Motion sensor more responsive in Home Assistant Share your Projects! Hi Guys I have never had an issue. But I don’t use the HA hue I mean it’s there but I don’t use those entities to reference any automations I use the Robmarkcole hue sensor custo…

This is still polling the state, just with a higher frquency than the official component. I can only recommend using ConBee, there you have state changes pushed to HA, you can include many non-hue devices such as the Xiaomi Door/Window sensors (very cheap, long battery life) and you can have smooth …

Thank I will look into that. I prefer push

I can confirm the same behavior. I have several Hue motion sensors and a Conbee stick as well. I compared them. I control my Hue lights through the Hue hub with the default hue component and have the same delay if I use the Hue motion sensors. The custom component you mentioned is a bit better. How…

[image] A320Peter: However I bought some very cheap Xiaomi Mija Motion sensors for less than $10 and they work great with the Conbee stick If you already have hue motion sensors, there’s no need to buy the Xiaomi ones, you can just include them into the ConBee and than it works perfectly fine…

If you already have hue motion sensors, there’s no need to buy the Xiaomi ones, you can just include them into the ConBee and than it works perfectly fine (I have one Hue motion sensor and it works instantly, no delay). I realized that after a while :slight_smile: but I needed more sensors anyway…

[image] A320Peter: I found a topic somewhere which stated that HA has to send out commands via ConBee for every bulb individually, but if I make a scene call by the Hue component only one request is made to the Hue hub and the hub commands the lights This is partially correct. You can create …

Do you know if the Philips Hue Dimmer switch can be paired to ConBee too, so I could read the button presses and functions like short hold, long hold, etc? Currently I do this with a custom addon huesensor , but if this also works with ConBee I would start thinking about throwing the hue hub.

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