Hedda
October 2, 2023, 10:20am
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Note to use Zigbee groups inside ZHA/Z2M (and not Home Assistant’s Group integration), as well important to note that terminology in Philips Hue app is not same as Home Assistant’s terminology so probably need to explain the different meaning and use cases for Zigbee Groups (in ZHA/Z2M), verses Group, Room, Area, and Zone in Home Assistant.
Nice! New users keep asking how to replicate Philips Hue’s “Dynamic Scenes” / “Custom Scenes”.
Also rembemer that there are Scenes and the Scenes Editor in Home Assistant as well.
I do however think the most notable user experience difference is that Philips Hue app comes with many default preset scenes and it is very easy to add custom scenes as well as lighting transitions when switching between scenes.
So many users who are new to ZHA (or Z2M) therefor keep asking if there is a comparable native built-in integration with default scene presets and lighting transitions or other simple way to replicate/mimic Philips Hue’s “Dynamic Scenes” and “Custom Scenes”.
Why is it not possible to transfer the Hue scenes of the Hue Bridge at least to some extent to automatically? It would at least make it easier for me to switch to ZHA with Hue without a bridge, because when you’re a family man, time is a precious commodity.
Has anyone migrated from Hue to ZHA? Is there any way to migrate existing Hue scenes to HA? I have couple non Hue devices that I’d love to add to my network but I’m a bit worried about the effort to reconfigure everything with ZHA. Also is there a straightforward way to get the switches to rotate between scenes just like the original switches do?
Hi guys,
Merry Christmas and happy holidays all!
Been doing the HA thing for 2 yrs now and loving it. In the past, I’ve tried to go whole hog with HA and not depend on 3rd party things as much as possible. I tried bringing the Hue lights to Z2M from Hue but when I did, when I asked my Google Home mini to turn on ‘bright’, it ended up turning all rooms with the bright scene. How can I stop this and only set the scene in the current room (instead of telling the GH what room to do it in, even tho…
HI, Just thought Id share how I created Off scenes in Hue Api and use these in HA:
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which is just a fun way of representing
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had this for a long time already:
group:
hue_light_control:
name: Hue Light Control
icon: mdi:spotlight
control: hidden
entities:
- input_select.hue_scenes
- input_select.hue_groups
- script.set_hue_scene
with script:
set_hue_scene:
alias: Set Hue scene
sequence:
service: hue.hue_activate_scene
data_t…
So today I realized that all my Hue lights (50+ devices) were not working. After some basic troubleshooting, it seems the bridge is dead. I’ve contacted Philips Hue support via Twitter to see if they have any sensible suggestions for resolving this but I have a feeling the hub is dead.
As I have 50+ devices, I’m not looking forward to having to manually reset each and every device and then re-adding them to my system but I’m starting to come to terms with the fact that is what I’ll have to do.
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Hi Everyone,
I’m not sure if I’m doing this wrong – I checked the help for ‘Entities’ and ‘Scene’ to make sure I’m doing this right but it appears it’s not working (no errors, even if formatting looks wonky here); here’s my config:
configuration.yaml
scene:
- name: Cool White
entities:
light.living_room_east_lamp: on
light.living_room_west_lamp:
state: on
rgb_color: [255,207,120]
brightness: 255
color_temp: 153
xy_color: [0.4575,0.4099]
- name: Relax
…
Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.
Last week I wrote how toying with the first Philips Hue hub and their local API led me to start Home Assistant back in 2013 . Th…
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