This blueprint provides universal support for running any custom action when a button is pressed on the provided Philips 324131092621 Hue Dimmer switch. Supports controllers integrated with deCONZ, ZHA, Zigbee2MQTT. Just specify the integration used to connect the remote to Home Assistant when setting up the automation, and the blueprint will take care of all the rest.
In addition of being able to provide custom actions for every kind of button press supported by the remote, the blueprint allows to loop the long press actions while the corresponding button is being held. Once released, the loop stops. This is useful when holding down a button should result in a continuous action (such as lowering the volume of a media player, or controlling a light brightness).
The blueprint also adds support for virtual double button press events, which are not exposed by the controller itself.
Automations created with this blueprint can be connected with one or more Hooks supported by this controller.
Hooks allow to easily create controller-based automations for interacting with media players, lights, covers and more. See the list of Hooks available for this controller for additional details.
Full Documentation
Full documentation regarding requirements, inputs and more is available here.
Docs provide all the information you need to properly configure this blueprint on your instance.
Available Hooks
Light
This Hook blueprint allows to build a controller-based automation to control a light. Supports brightness and color control both for white temperature and rgb lights.
Hi @shellcode, thank you for reporting. The config looks good to me.
Just as a note, are you triggering the automation by pressing a button on the controller, as it is intended?
It looks like the error refers to the trigger object not being available in the first steps of the automation, usually happening when an automation is manually run from the Configuration -> Automations page.
No, I’m just showing you the only output I can find associated to this automation.
I’m using a Phillips Hue Dimmer Switch, and I see all the zha_event properly via Node Red with a debug node. And it works with the other blueprint I linked above. So I have multiple remotes and I have one associated to your blueprint and one associated to the other blueprint . So I know events are arriving from the remote, and I see the last run for the automation update. However, the lights do not switch on and off with your blueprint.
Hi @shellcode,
thank you for your detailed response.
I’ll take a look at this issue in the next days and let you know if additional info might be useful for solving it.
Hi
The Ikea On/Off blueprint works for me with Deconz, but not this one.
If i use the Philips dimmer with that blueprint it works as expected for the 2 upper buttons (the 1000-2003 events from Deconz).
Having a similar issue as the poster above. Confirmed that I’m using 324131092621.
Seeing this error in the trace timeline at step 6…
Stopped because an error was encountered at July 26, 2021, 10:01:12 PM (runtime: 0.02 seconds)
not a valid value for dictionary value @ data[‘entity_id’]
And here’s what the automation YAML looks like (just something basic while troubleshooting).
Thanks for nice blueprint! I wanted it for Dimmer switch v2 with zigbee2mqtt, which of course, was not working. Thankfully, there is simple change:
rename commands from ‘on-press’ to ‘on_press’.
Can you please add it as separate switch? PN: 9290023986
I’m having trouble getting the short press up/down to work when also using the double press. After a single up/down button press, the delay waits for the double press and in this time the process gets reset by the up/down release.
thank you for reporting here, sorry for my late response. I’m trying to keep up with all the messages I’m receiving both here and on GitHub, and answering all of your questions, with the same attention to every single one of them, but sometimes I miss a few posts here and there.
@Vicis welcome to the HA Community forum! While configuring the blueprint you need to provide a valid input_text entity for the helper_last_controller_event input, as described in the Inputs section in the blueprint documentation.
You can find additional details regarding this mandatory input in the general Controller-Hooks Ecosystem documentation.
Please let me know if adding the missing blueprint input solves your issue.
@jackpea try to add an action for the up button short press. Does it get executed in place of the double press action? If this is the case, the issue might be with the helper_double_press_delay being too small, or the two short presses too close in time.
@pmontgo33 the YAML for your automations looks good to me. Could you please share screenshots/traces from the HA automation trace tool for the automation runs triggered when interacting with the controller? This way we should be able to detect what is causing the lamp not to be controlled by the automation.
@svh1985@lucidnx (welcome to the HA Community forum! ) thank you so much for your suggestions! I’m glad to add support for both of these controllers in our collection. I’ll let you know as soon as blueprints for these devices are ready.
@rubencvdb welcome to the HA Community! So the up/down release event is fired after short pressing the up/down buttons, is that right? Unfortunately I don’t own a Philips Hue Dimmer Switch, therefore I cannot check this on my own.
Yes, the release event immediately follows the short (or long) press of every button. I fixed my usecase by moving all short press actions to the release event! So after a release, it waits the double_press_delay and if nothings happens it executes the short press action.
Btw, I am using the v2 switch 9290023986 and everything works fine! Only had to change the release event mapping from 3003->3002 and 2003->2002 for up/down buttons.
I try to clean up my HA setup and I remove this blueprint.
But now I get this message in HA log.
Logger: homeassistant.config
Source: components/blueprint/models.py:211
First occurred: 23:17:12 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 23:17:12
Invalid config for [automation]: Failed to load blueprint: Unable to find EPMatt/philips_324131092621.yaml (See /home/homeassistant/homeassistant/configuration.yaml, line 232).
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/share/homeassistant/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/components/blueprint/models.py", line 209, in _load_blueprint
blueprint_data = yaml.load_yaml(self.blueprint_folder / blueprint_path)
File "/usr/local/share/homeassistant/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/util/yaml/loader.py", line 110, in load_yaml
with open(fname, encoding="utf-8") as conf_file:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/homeassistant/homeassistant/blueprints/automation/EPMatt/philips_324131092621.yaml'
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/share/homeassistant/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/components/automation/config.py", line 103, in _try_async_validate_config_item
config = await async_validate_config_item(hass, config, full_config)
File "/usr/local/share/homeassistant/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/components/automation/config.py", line 70, in async_validate_config_item
return await blueprints.async_inputs_from_config(config)
File "/usr/local/share/homeassistant/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/components/blueprint/models.py", line 297, in async_inputs_from_config
blueprint = await self.async_get_blueprint(bp_conf[CONF_PATH])
File "/usr/local/share/homeassistant/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/components/blueprint/models.py", line 275, in async_get_blueprint
blueprint = await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 52, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/local/share/homeassistant/lib/python3.9/site-packages/homeassistant/components/blueprint/models.py", line 211, in _load_blueprint
raise FailedToLoad(
homeassistant.components.blueprint.errors.FailedToLoad: Failed to load blueprint: Unable to find EPMatt/philips_324131092621.yaml
I double check, I can’t find any automation the use that blueprint.
Any idea ?
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) thank you so much for your suggestions! I’m glad to add support for both of these controllers in our collection. I’ll let you know as soon as blueprints for these devices are ready. 
So the up/down release event is fired after short pressing the up/down buttons, is that right? Unfortunately I don’t own a Philips Hue Dimmer Switch, therefore I cannot check this on my own.