Philips Hue Dimmer Switch - ghost reports

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Sorry. No events when I move in front of a motion sensor, although on my floorplan I can see their state-icons firing. When I press the button on the dimmer switch I get:

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Also the notifications:

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Same here.
that’s also my outcome for a dimmer switch press

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OK, if no one gets a hue_event generated when motion occurs then that’s a good thing.

Now the challenge is to correlate the ‘ghost’ hue_event with something (if anything) that occurs at the same time. You could refer to logger or even inspect the database for anything that happened at the exact same time (within a second or so) as the ‘ghost’ event.

If nothing else occurs at the same time then it becomes a bit more mysterious and might be due to something unusual like a misbehaving dimmer-switch. I’ll keep an eye on my system and let you know if it reports any ‘ghost’ events.

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Same problem here… not only with a dimmer switch (started some weeks ago) - last night also with a Hue Button (which is our doorbell… got woken up 2 times - wifey was not happy)

Nothing in the logs 3min+ before the event…

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This PR confirms the presence of the problem and corrects it.

It was allegedly included in 2021.8.0.

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Since a few days I do not get any hue_events anymore. Anyone else can confirm this? WHen listening to hue_event not a single event comes along when I press a button on a hue dimmer switch.

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I’m running 2021.8.4 and hue_events are reported whenever I push a button on a Hue Dimmer Switch.

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Thanks! I’ll dig some deeper then.

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I also do not get hue_events. Did you find out why?

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hey all
quick update
today, my “Philips hue button” misfire for the first time after the update that was suppose to fix it.
this is an actual button, and not the “dimmer switch” as it was for me before, but i’m guessing its pretty much the same…
im not sure if its just a coincidence or something deeper.
the symptoms are kind of the same they were before the fix - the automation related with the button press just fired-up, though no one physically pressed the button.
logbook shows as if it was pressed with the “hue_event” mark.
ill report back if it will happen again

cheers

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started to happen on my tap switch on the last HA version (2021.12.x)

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and my automation triggers:

alias: Hue Tap Switch
description: ''
trigger:
  - device_id: 97d335315db7b70fa011c9ae72fbd8da
    domain: hue
    platform: device
    type: initial_press
    subtype: 1
    unique_id: d47883bd-87b3-4549-ae67-ac814995e067
    id: kitchen
  - device_id: 97d335315db7b70fa011c9ae72fbd8da
    domain: hue
    platform: device
    type: initial_press
    subtype: 2
    unique_id: b40318d8-f5c3-40ee-a250-91f987839aa4
    id: cinema
condition: []
action:
....

I’ve notice it always happen at the hour… (a few secs after the hour)

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Just upgraded my HA instance to the latest 2021.12.x after being gone for a while and my lights would randomly turn on every hour. Logs say turned on by Supervisor. I have my Tap automated through NodeRED and it seems to be triggering there for no reason. Gonna be testing today to see what’s triggering it and if there’s some way around it.

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It’s a known problem (caused by the integration’s scheduled reconnection) and is slated to be corrected in a future patch release: