HUE Trigger

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1

Hey,

I may have a stupid question, but I have it.

I try to set up automation that does the following:

When a certain scene for HUE is activated (either through the Hue App or HA) I want to play a certain music. Casting to Chromecast is not a problem, but what is the trigger I need to use. When I trace the commands with dev-tools I get a different ID every time.

Does anybody have a template that I can use?

Thanks in advance.
Frank

2

You can use Event Triggers to detect when Home Assistant is used to activate a Hue scene. Here’s a simple automation that reports the entity_id of the scene that was activated. There’s more than one way to turn on a scene in Home Assistant so that’s why the automation has two Event Triggers.

- alias: Monitor Hue Scene Events
  trigger:
  - platform: event
    event_type: call_service
    event_data:
      domain: hue
      service: activate_scene
  - platform: event
    event_type: call_service
    event_data:
      domain: scene
      service: turn_on
  action:
  - service: notify.persistent_notification
    data:
      message: "type: {{ trigger.event.data.service_data.entity_id | first }}"

When you use the Philips Hue app to turn on a Hue scene, Home Assistant does not detect the scene activation as a special event. It simply detects the state-changes of each light in the scene.

NOTE
The second Event Trigger listens for any scene activation, not just Hue scenes.

3

Thanks a lot. I did it a different way, but your input was very helpful.

4

How does this different way detect when the Hue app activates a Hue scene?

5

Not at all. I activate sound now with long push of a button on a Hue switch.

6

Hello,
I just tried to use your (tara’s) code and in result, the automation was triggered in case of activating the scene via Home Assistant Dashboard. But activating the scene via the Hue app on my mobile does not trigger. Also when activation is made by voice command to alexa (which is also going to the hue bridge) it does not trigger the HA automation. I have no clue at the moment, where I could have masde a mistake. Any hints, maybe?