I’m very new to Home Assistant and just need some help setting up my Philips Hues.
I have setup HA and let it auto discover my Hue Bridge 2.
It did this and was able to show me all my lights.
However, none of my lights have names as I used groups on the hue app and homekit.
After reading the instruction I thought philips hue groups would automatically appear somehow but I can’t seem to see them…
I thought I would try to add the hue in my configuration.yaml:
light:
I know mine(groups) didn’t show up but the names of the lights did.
Honestly, once you set up your lights you won’t even go back to the Hue app. Doesn’t really serve a purpose outside of HA and is just a duplication of service.
Are there any performance issues doing it this way? I’ve read that a command sent to a hue group only needs one instruction but a command to a ha group sends an instruction for each of the lights. Is that noticeable?
It is still sort of an issue though. Mine do show up thankfully, but if you were to use your own custom groups with emulated hue you can only turn on/off at least when I tried it. With the hue groups I can turn on/off, change brightness, and change colors (additional code needed for that which someone on the github is working on, not out yet) with my google home.
This ended up working after disabling discovery and only using the light option.
It seems like discovery wouldn’t do this for me.
Now I have groups from my philips hue appearing on my HA.
I can definitely notice a difference between using Hue groups and HA created groups. I have 7 lights in one group and 7 in another. They turn on and off at exactly the same time using Hue groups while HA groups are like playing a ruff on a drum. The Hue groups turn on slightly more quickly, too. The differences are fractions of a second, but noticeable. So far it seems to have solved the problem where a light will sometimes not turn on or will dim rather than turn off.
It’s also working without removing discovery:
Documented here: