Hello community, I would like to move from Xiaomi button switches actually on RaspBee to Philips Hue Smart Buttons via Philips gateway.
I already integrated Philips gateway and I can see the Philips lights, now I would like to know if HA is able to recognize the Hue Smart Button as Switch and if I’ll be able to do the same automations I already have with Xiaomi button, like 1 click, 2 clicks, 3 clicks and long press.
Lucas,
I’ve had Hue smart buttons working with Home Assistant until a recent v0.110 update (I’m looking to get it all working again now). Bottom line, it can work, and it worked really well for me.
I can confirm it is now working for me on v0.111.0, (I had a firewall rule that was causing me an unrelated issue). The only thing to note is that the smart button items don’t show-up under the hue integration, since they are configured via rest, but the functionality works.
As for the current integration, I’m not familiar with the coding behind Home Assistant yet, but the source code for the hue integration is here:
Anybody know if and how it is possible to select different actions when pressing the button multiple times and using dimming when holding the button like native on the hue bridge?
this is normal. Buttons have no entities, except from battery level.
But, they do generate events. So, when you create an automation, you let that automation react on an event like click, double click,…