I believe you can use the customise tool to achieve whatever look and feel you like 
sure! so cool.
thought the Red alert color was more suitable…
templates:
rgb_color: "if (state === 'on') return [192, 39, 30]; else return [54, 95, 140];"
This is a great suggestion thanks, I’ve tried it in my customize.yaml but it doesn’t seem to work. Have I the formatting wrong? Any ideas?
whats your code? if you post the code, we can help.
This is what I added to my customize.yaml - I borrowed another line for stateDisplay from the discussion here but it doesn’t appear to matter if I exclude that line or not
sensor.sitting_room_motion_sensor:
templates:
rgb_color: "if (state === 'on') return [251, 210, 41]; else return [54, 95, 140];"
_stateDisplay: "if (state === 'on') return 'Detected'; else return 'Clear';"this is my full customization for the hue motion sensors
sensor.corridor_motion_sensor:
show_last_changed: true
templates:
rgb_color: "if (state === 'on') return [192, 39, 30]; else return [54, 95, 140];"
icon: "if (state === 'on') return 'mdi:run-fast';
else return 'mdi:exit-to-app';"
_stateDisplay: if (state === 'on') return 'Alert'; else return 'Clear';
should do the trick…but check the difference in the more-info below. Other customizations do work as expected?
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That’s very odd but anything i try here doesn’t work, it appears as per my screenshot above. Templates don’t work in my customize.yaml even though other customizations do.
Is there possibly an error somewhere else in customize.yaml that could be causing this? An errant parentheses or something? I’m using hassio latest public release. Any custom components or anything that I need to install?
just to be sure: you do have customize setup in your configuration.yaml?
homeassistant:
name: HeadQuarters
latitude: !secret latitude
longitude: !secret longitude
elevation: !secret elevation
unit_system: metric
time_zone: !secret time_zone
customize: !include_dir_merge_named customize # customize.yaml
customize_glob: !include customize_glob.yaml
HI Robin,
Does this:
8-04-11 13:01:22 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Error parsing value: 'value_json' is undefined (value: <html>
<head><title>500 Internal Server Error</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
, template: {{ value_json.state.presence }})
8-04-11 13:06:11 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.template] Error parsing value: 'value_json' is undefined (value: <html>
<head><title>500 Internal Server Error</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
, template: {{ value_json.config.on }})
in any way seem possibly related to the hue.py CC? Ie checked in my config files for the value_json.state.presence and on, and the only place it seems related to is your CC…
Please have a look?
Cheers,
Marius
Appears to be related to config. No ideas beyond that I’m afraid
HI @john1
do you recognize these errors in the log. Ive looked everywhere in my config, but can only imagine them to come from the rest switches…
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/switch/rest.py", line 167, in async_update
yield from self.get_device_state(self.hass)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/switch/rest.py", line 178, in get_device_state
text = yield from req.text()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/async_timeout/__init__.py", line 35, in __exit__
self._do_exit(exc_type)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/async_timeout/__init__.py", line 80, in _do_exit
raise asyncio.TimeoutError
concurrent.futures._base.TimeoutError
2018-04-11 23:57:18 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.switch.rest] Error while fetch data.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/switch/rest.py", line 178, in get_device_state
text = yield from req.text()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aiohttp/client_reqrep.py", line 829, in text
await self.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aiohttp/client_reqrep.py", line 798, in read
self._content = await self.content.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aiohttp/streams.py", line 312, in read
block = await self.readany()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aiohttp/streams.py", line 328, in readany
await self._wait('readany')
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/aiohttp/streams.py", line 250, in _wait
await waiter
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 332, in __iter__
yield self # This tells Task to wait for completion.
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py", line 250, in _wakeup
future.result()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 237, in result
raise CancelledError
concurrent.futures._base.CancelledError
might be related to the rest switches, see @john1’s post. They work fine, but seem to cause log-stress…
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Here’s how I’ve customised mine to show the ‘movement’ and ‘no movement’ states, in case anyone wants to try it. Looks pretty cute when it switches between states 
And the code:
office_motion:
friendly_name: "Movement"
value_template: "{% if is_state('sensor.office_motion_sensor', 'on') %}Detected{% else %}None Detected{% endif %}"
icon_template: "{% if is_state('sensor.office_motion_sensor', 'on') %}mdi:human-handsup{% else %}mdi:human-male{% endif %}"
BTW, what's the status of the motion sensors in Home Assistant at the moment? I've been holding off updating HA, as didn't they remove support for Hue sensors?
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Finally figured this out, turns out you need the Custom UI elements addition for your Home Assistant setup: https://github.com/andrey-git/home-assistant-custom-ui
Once I configured this correctly (by adding a customize_glob entry to my configuration.yaml) the templates started working.
This is off the topic of the thread but this seems like something that should be added already to hassio at least if it seems to be so commonly used?
Anyway I’m happy campers now with my consistent motion sensors
OK I’ve tested the CC on HA 0.68.0.dev0 and works fine. If the Hue hub component is stable over the next release I will look at turning the sensors into an official component.
Cheers
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Went through the whole thread and didn’t see this, soooo how can I show temp in Fahrenheit?
@robmarkcole
I was testing and comparing automation using the hue motion sensor (open light when motion) with HomeKit and HA (your component).
Is it normal that Home kit automation is WAY FASTER to open the light on motion than doing it from HA? (maybe because the way it communicate with the sensor or something)
HK is less than a second and with HA, it can be 2 seconds…
Just wondering is this is something to live with or something I can optimize…
thanks
For F. sake please! that would be so awesome - Especialy the motion sensors for triggering automations and the remotes.
I’m to worried to change the working setup, its not broke, jet…
HK is a black box so I can’t make a comparison. What exactly have you been comparing — an automation in native HK with a native HA one?