Tutorial adding HUE Motion sensor (Lux,Temp and Motion)

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

Good shout!

[RitteT]

I use the motion sensors in HA. I use the rest-component in HA to set it up.

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

I don’t know if this has been mentioned but the Hue API also exposes the presence as a sensor, appearing in mine as:

{
  "state": {
    "presence": true,
    "lastupdated": "2017-07-22T11:52:42"
  },
  "config": {
    "on": true,
    "reachable": true
  },
  "name": "Robins iPhone",
  "type": "Geofence",
  "modelid": "HA_GEOFENCE",
  "manufacturername": "Philips",
  "swversion": "A_1",
  "uniqueid": "L_02_IYwHM",
  "recycle": false
}

[PuckStar]

Thanks for sharing.
I personally don’t want Philips to know where I am so I don’t have an account linked and thus no presence detection.

[brett5150 (Brett)]

Anyone have an issue with these virtual sensors disappearing upon a power cycle/loss with the HUE hub? Power went out a few days ago and I lost all of my virtual sensors. It was only two so it wasn’t a big deal to recreat, but still…

Is there a way to back up the configuration? Should it store these changes?

Thanks,

[PuckStar]

Yes that happens. Also when you change the sensitivity for instance through the Hue app I noticed I lost some rules and entries.
So what I did is keep a copy of what I entered in a document and once it happens I copy paste is quickly again.

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

I’m using the motion sensors without using the ‘virtual sensors’ and work great!

binary_sensor:
  - platform: rest 
    resource: http://<bridge ip address>/api/<username>/sensors/15 
    name: living_room_motion_sensor 
    value_template: '{{value_json.state.presence}}' 
    scan_interval: 1

[Tusk]

I’m having some problems setting this up.

I guess this is my motion sensor:

“5”:{“state”:{“status”:0,“lastupdated”:“2017-08-10T05:30:39”},“config”:{“on”:true,“reachable”:true},“name”:“MotionSensor 3.Companion”,“type”:“CLIPGenericStatus”,“modelid”:“PHA_STATE”,“manufacturername”:“Philips”,“swversion”:“1.0”,“uniqueid”:“MotionSensor 3.Companion”,“recycle”:true},

And this is my config:

• platform: rest
  resource: http://192.168.1.23/api/myapikey/sensors/5
  name: ‘Bewegungsmelder’
  value_template: ‘{{value_json.state.presence}}’
  scan_interval: 1

My sensor will show up in homeassistant but it doesnt report any state. It is just empty

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

Doesn’t look correct return from the API. See https://www.hackster.io/robin-cole/boil-my-kettle-when-i-get-out-of-bed-in-the-morning-10e7de

[Tusk]

You are right, thank you for the link.

This is how the sensor should look like:

"3": {
	"state": {
		"presence": false,
		"lastupdated": "2017-04-15T19:32:23"
	},
	"config": {
		"on": true,
		"battery": 100,
		"reachable": true,
		"alert": "none",
		"ledindication": false,
		"usertest": false,
		"sensitivity": 2,
		"sensitivitymax": 2,
		"pending": []
	},
	"name": "Unten Sensor",
	"type": "ZLLPresence",
	"modelid": "SML001",

[Leebejeebee (Lee)]

Great tutorial. Have followed and worked out great… twice. Seems if you change IP address the key needs to be reset. Am I right in saying that as I moved from one hardwired access point to another (with different IP) I just setup again after no motion sensor detection? Had no issues in doing so but just wanted to double check

Glad I did as I setup the lux and temp sensors now. Pal I owe you a few internet pints

One thing i’ve noted with my dealings though is that instead of motion sensor detection “True” is that it shows as “1” or “0”… which is no biggie but just wondering why it aint matching with “true” or “false”

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

Always grateful for an internet pint
To avoid the changing IP I recommend setting a DHCP reservation on your router.
I’ve also noticed that if you remove and then re-add a sensor in the Hue app, it is assigned a different index.
Re 1, 0, I haven’t encountered that, be interested to hear if you get to the bottom of it. Cheers

[WhistleMaster (Wm)]

Is it possible to set the scan_interval to less than a sec (e.g. 500 ms) ?

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

@WhistleMaster

scan_interval

I set scan_interval = 0.5 and appears to make no difference. I also removed scan_interval and that made no difference. Therefore I conclude that scan_interval is not required (it is not in https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/sensor/rest.py)

[hyukang (Paul Kang)]

I took the steps above without any problems. However when I restarted HA I get this error

2017-08-13 15:37:52 ERROR (Thread-5) [homeassistant.components.sensor.rest] Error fetching data: <PreparedRequest [GET]>
2017-08-13 15:37:52 ERROR (Thread-5) [homeassistant.components.sensor.rest] Unable to fetch REST data

• platform: rest
  resource: http://huebridgeipaddress/api/myapikeyhere/sensors/7
  value_template: ‘{{ value_json.state.lightlevel }}’
  unit_of_measurement: Lux
  name: ‘Master Bedroom Lights Sensor’

• platform: rest
  resource: resource: http://huebridgeipaddress/api/myapikeyhere/sensors/7
  value_template: ‘{{ value_json.state.temperature | float / 100 }}’
  unit_of_measurement: °C
  name: ‘Master Bedroom Temperature Sensor’

Does anyone know why I’m getting that error?

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

Ip of the bridge hasn’t changed and Hue component is otherwise functioning without errors?

[hyukang (Paul Kang)]

Yes the IP is still the same and the Hue component is functioning correctly.

[robmarkcole (Robin)]

I’d check what is being returned by the rest call. Have noticed that adding new devices can change the ordering of sensors etc

[WhistleMaster (Wm)]

EDIT: Now using Deconz… even better !

I moved my Hue Motion sensors from rest to MQTT using hue-mqtt-bridge and the delay is much better !

binary_sensor:
- platform: mqtt
device_class: motion
state_topic: hue/my_sensor/presence
name: ‘Sensor Motion’
payload_on: “true”
payload_off: “false”

[Morten_DK]

I followed the tutorial to add the light sensor (not the others) in REST. My configuration file looks like this:

• platform: rest
  resource: http://“IP Adress”/api/“User”/sensors/6
  value_template: ‘{{ (10 ** (float(value_json.state.lightlevel) / 10000) -1) | round (1)}}’

  unit_of_measurement: Lux
  name: ‘Living Room Lux’

It works fine and home assistant receives data. However when I try to use the lux in an automation, the automation does not trigger. My automations file looks like this:

• action:
  • data:
    entity_id: light.iris
    service: light.turn_on
    alias: Turn on Iris
    condition:
  • condition: state
    entity_id: light.iris
    state: ‘off’
    id:
    trigger:
  • below: ‘200’
    entity_id: sensor.living_room_lux
    platform: numeric_state

If I change the automation to start at for instance 20:00 it works fine, so it is only the trigger that is failling.

Any ideas?