Hi guys, I’m new here so I hope I’m not posting in the wrong section!
My idea is to connect all my Philips Hue and IKEA Tradfri bulbs and accessories to my RaspBee/DeCONZ, the main reason I’d like to do this is to be able to use the IKEA Tradfri remotes with all my lights, and add more advanced automations.
The only problem I have is that I also have a Philips Ambilight TV, which supports the “Ambilight + Hue” integration, basically it syncs my lights with what’s playing on the TV. It will work only with a Hue Bridge, and not with a DeCONZ one.
So my idea was to install the “Emulated Hue Bridge” on Home Assistant so that my TV can see my DeCONZ as a Hue Bridge.
Is this possible or am I misunderstanding what Emulated Hue can do?
Are you running deconz on port 80? If not that might be the reason that the TV doesn’t identify it. Since deconz also emulates the hue api. My harmony hub found it as a philips hue bridge
Wahh! That’s it! I changed the port to 80 and now the Philps Hue app sees my DeCONZ bridge. Now I need to test it with my TV to see if it works as well, but I guess so.
I’m having exactly the same dilemma. I have a mix of IKEA Trådfri and Philips Hue with both gateways of course, but I have not had the guts to buy a DeCONZ yet for just this reason. I really love the TV integration.
Maybe it could be a fun project to debug the inner works of this integration and see if it’s possible to “fool” the TV to interact with the DeCONZ instead.
Did you find any information on the topic or was it just a dead end?
The only solution I found is to use DIYHue, but (at least on my RPi3) it adds quite a lot of delay and is not very reliable (sometimes lights get stuck on a color and don’t update).
Oh wow! This looks like a real game changer. I am running my own vmware server on an HPE Microserver, so computing resources will not be an issue. I hope I can find some time to play around with this soon and I will give an update on how it works.
@Jonas_Thonell, @FezVrasta have you found a solution for the Ambilight+Hue integration with DeCONZ?
I’m now in the same situation, for now I mantain the Hue Bridge for the Hue Lights, and a Conbee II stick for all the other zigbee stuff.
Yes I have! Sorry for not updating this thread. But it took a while to figure this one out, and there was alot of Docker troubleshooting involved.
Here’s what I did:
In VMware I added a new network adapter and gave it the IP “192.168.1.24” inside my Ubuntu server running Docker and Hass.io or Supervisor. (If you’re running another solution you’ll have to find another way to add one more IP address to your server.)
Deploy a docker container running the latest DiyHue image, binding to the MAC and IP of the new virtual network card: docker run -d --name “diyHue” --network=“bridge” -v ‘/usr/share/hassio/share/hue-emulator/export’:’/opt/hue-emulator/export/’:‘rw’ -e ‘MAC=00:0c:29:9f:2b:9e’ -e ‘IP=192.168.1.24’ -p 80:80/tcp -p 443:443/tcp -p 1900:1900/udp -p 2100:2100/udp diyhue/core:latest
In Portainer (can probably be added to the command above though), add the ENV variable to the DiyHue container “DECONZ” with the IP of your HomeAssistant server as the value:
I almost forgot to mention that you also need to open your Deconz Gateway under the Advanced settings for DiyHue to set up the authentication to Deconz.
I hope I could remember all the necessary steps as this was quite a long session of trial and error. And I hope that you can get this magical piece of software up and running!
Hi @Jonas_Thonell ! After some years I definitely tried it, and I made it worked! My Philips TV detected the diyHue bridge and I configured the Ambilight+hue integration, but it works with a big delay, at least for me with this lag is not worth having it! It’s like a 2 or 3 second delay!
