This is my first post so apologises if I have put this in the incorrect category.
I have just setup my Home assistant on a virtual machine on my NAS box. Everything is working fine apart from my Philips hue bulbs that are added to groups will not allow me to change the brightness through Alexa.
For an example I have 6 Philips Hue GU10 bulbs in my Kitchen and I have added these to a group called ‘kitchen’ If I ask alexa to turn Kitchen on it works without issue however if I say ‘Kitchen 30%’ I get the response ‘Kitchen doesn’t support that’. If I ask alexa to dim any of the bulbs individually they dim without issue.
When I look at my exposed entities I can see that the group doesnt seem to have ‘Brightness listed’
I am also having the same issue with the Lounge group.
I have tried moving the group into the configuration.yaml file and I have the same issue.
I have made sure that all of my old groups have been removed from the alexa app. I have also seen a post regarding setting it as a light-group however I was unable to get that working (kept saying the config was incorrect).
I have tried the suggestions on these posts without success
I am really sorry if this is a really silly question but I just cannot work this out.
Do you you by any chance have an Alexa group with the same name. To test this out try renaming your groups to something different from the room they’re in and see if you’re able to set the damn level.
Thank you ptdalen. I have just tried your suggestion however unfortunately that hasn’t worked.
The new group was picked up by alexa when I asked to discover new devices. I was able to turn the new group on and off however I was still unable to dim them.
Hi Ptdalen,
My kitchen group are all philips hue dimmable bulbs. The lounge has 2 philips hue light strips and a magic home led strip for the TV stand.
I have tried creating a light group but for some reason I kept getting errors in my config so I changed to groups. Would light groups work better?
I will try removing the other lights from the group and test.
I do think a light group will work. The more I think about it the more I think that is your issue. I’m on mobile at the moment so I don’t have the ability to easily find the light group link. But it is very straightforward.
Edit:
Then expose the light group to Alexa just like any other light
Ok I have the Kitchen working and I am able to dim and turn on and off as expected. The Lounge I am able to turn on and off however when I ask Alexa to dim the Lounge I get the message advising that there are more than one device named Lounge. I have removed everything to do with Lounge from the Alexa app and re-discovered them but getting the same issue.
I am unable to get the light groups to work in a separate file for some reason so I have put the below in my configuration file.
light:
- platform: flux_led
devices:
<IP OF DEVICE>:
name: TV Stand
- platform: group
name: Kitchen
entities:
- light.kitchen_spot_1
- light.kitchen_spot_2
- light.kitchen_spot_3
- light.kitchen_spot_4
- light.kitchen_spot_5
- light.kitchen_spot_6
- platform: group
name: Lounge
entities:
- light.lounge_strip_1
- light.lounge_strip_2
- light.tv_stand
I will continue to investigate if there is a duplicate of lounge somewhere.
EDIT: I found the duplicate group the Alexa app still had an old HA Lounge group from before I made the new Lounge light group.
@ptdalen do you have any idea why the above config would not work in my groups file or lights file? And thank you so much for your assistance with this.
