Philips HUE AIO VD standalone 3.1

Sorry, missing quote for hueID..

Thank you for writing this VD - it is so much better than the Fibaro offering!

 

I think there is a small error in the manual.  In section 4.2 where you list the lua commands to read the various values, the "read value from brightness slider" is correct but all the other read values specify fibaro:call(..) which should, I think, be fibaro:getValue(..).

 

Can I ask a question?  Should I be able to alter, for instance, the hue when the light is off (using the AIO VD interface)?  The following sequence does not behave as I was expecting but not sure exactly what you designed it to do under these circumstances:

 

Turn light on

Set brightness slider to 100

Set hue slider to 35

Set saturation slider to 100

light is now showing green

Turn light off

Set hue slider to 0

Turn light on

Light comes on green.  I was expecting red.

 

Similar things happen in lua scenes where changing colour when the light is off has no effect.

 

Regards and thank you again for all your hard work on this.

 

Adrian.

 

 

Hi @[email protected] ,

 

Thank you for reporting errors in manual, will check and correct them in next release.

 

Regarding your question, Philips HUE does not support changing hue, saturation and color temperature if bulb is turned off, so this can be done only after it is turned on. It is HUE 'feature' and doesn't have anything with HUE AIO VD.

 

Still I plan to rewrite HUE AIO VD to further reduce communication between HC2 and HUE bridge and also allow sending commands to bridge even bulb is reported unreachable. Also HUE introduced zones which are at this moment in the beta testing phase, but as soon as they release it as stable version will see how to integrate zones to HUE AIO VD.

 

 

Hi Sankotronic

 

Thank you for your prompt response.

 

I know this is the perceived wisdom about Hue bulbs and I don't know if it has changed since the early days but I did the following experiment using the CLIP API debugger provided with the Hue bridge:

 

Sending PUT messages to   .../lights/x/state:

 

{"on":true, "sat":254, "bri":254, "hue":10000}   light comes on pale yellow colour

 

{"on":false}   light goes off

 

{"on":true, "sat":254, "bri":254, "hue":0}  light comes on red (no hint of starting in yellow then changing to red)

 

and indeed this is the most useful behaviour especially for scenes where you want to set a particular colour and brightness and have the light come on at that colour and brightness regardless of the state it was in when it was turned off.  I don't think you can do this with AIO currently (unless I have misunderstood something in which case I apologise in advance)

 

Regards

Adrian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi @[email protected] ,

 

that is exactly why I will rewrite HUE AIO VD to speed it up and reduce amount of communication.

Hi @Sankotronic

 

OK thank you and many thanks again for all your hard work on this project.

 

Regards

Adrian.

 

Hi

I have just moved my Philips light to your code, and it looks a lot better than the standard Fibaro..

 

But, I'm struggling to work out how to control them using LUA code.. As an example i use the code under to turn off all light in a room.

Can anyone please advice on how this should be updated to also turn off any Philips hue light sin the room?

 

--[[
%% properties
%% events
%% globals
--]]
local ids = fibaro:getDevicesId(
  {
    interfaces = {
      "light",
    },
     roomID = 9,        --Room id for dining room
    properties = {
      dead = false,  
    },
    enabled = true,
    visible = true, -- optional
    --userDescription ~= "", -- attempt to evaluate if user description in device is not nil.
  }
);
-- loop through light ids
for i, id in ipairs(ids) do
    fibaro:debug("Turning off " .. fibaro:getName(id));
    --turn light off
    fibaro:call(id, "turnOff");
      fibaro:sleep(100);
end

 

This is explained in section 4.1 of the user manual (Philips HUE for HC2 VD User manual v1.1.pdf ) supplied with the Virtual Device.  You need something like this:

 

local hM = json.decode(fibaro:getGlobalValue("HueMain"))  
local hueID = "171"
  
fibaro:call(hueID, "pressButton", hM[hueID].OffButton)

 

replacing 171 with the ID of the virtual device controlling the Hue bulb.

 

HTH

But I think you will need a different loop as I suspect the Hue Virtual Devices will not be included in device type "light".

Hi

Thanks for your feedback.. I go the code from the manual working, I think I was just missing a ")" or another typo..

 

You are right.. the loop i'm using will not include virtuel devices , not even if  the section under is removed..

 

    interfaces = {
      "lights",
    },

If I understand the manual correct the following code should find all VD's in a room, but I cannot get it work.

for id, v in pairs (aM) do
if v.roomID == 7 then 
    hueID = id 
  end 
end

 

Yes there is a closing bracket missing on the line defining hM in the manual.

 

And I think you should be looping over this table not aM

Hi All,

 

Thank you for using PHILIPS HUE AIO VD. There is indeed typos in HUE User Manual. Correct code should be:

local hM = json.decode(fibaro:getGlobalValue("HueMain"))
-- only if you use HomeTable solution
local jT = json.decode(fibaro:getGlobalValue("HomeTable"))
local hueID = tostring(jT.livingroom.hue)
-- if not using HomeTable then can use this form where XX is HUE VD ID
local hueID="XX"
-- or can loop through HueMain and look for the HUE VD by eg. room ID
local hueID ={}
function scanHue(roomID)local h,no={},1 for id,v in pairs(hM)do if v.roomID==roomID then h[no]=id no=no+1 end return h end
-- get all HUE AIO VD that are in room with ID = 7
hueID = scanHue(7)
-- Now check if any HUE VD found in room ID=7 and then turn them all off
if #hueID>0 then
  for k,v in pairs(hueID)do fibaro:call(v,"pressButton",hM[v].OffButton)end
end

Curled brackets in hueID={} represents table that can contain more than one values which are sorted by the index. In above example index is number that is position of value inside table. Why table? It simple, there can be more than one HUE AIO VD in one room, so simplest way to get their IDs is to store them in table. Once they are stored in table user can always iterate (loop) through that table and send command to all VD's that are inside that table.

 

 

Hi

Thank you for posting the code..  But I'm struggling a bit with it..

It seems to be missing one "end"  amusingly at the end of the line starting with  "function scanHue(roomID)local"

 

So after adding the "end" and  setting room id to 9 I end up with the following code:

local hM = json.decode(fibaro:getGlobalValue("HueMain"))
-- only if you use HomeTable solution
--local jT = json.decode(fibaro:getGlobalValue("HomeTable"))
--local hueID = tostring(jT.livingroom.hue)
-- if not using HomeTable then can use this form where XX is HUE VD ID
--local hueID="XX"
-- or can loop through HueMain and look for the HUE VD by eg. room ID
local hueID ={}
function scanHue(roomID)local h,no={},1 
  for id,v in pairs(hM)do if v.roomID==roomID 
      then h[no]=id no=no+1 end return h end end
-- get all HUE AIO VD that are in room with ID = 7
hueID = scanHue(9)
-- Now check if any HUE VD found in room ID=7 and then turn them all off
if #hueID>0 then
  for k,v in pairs(hueID)do fibaro:call(v,"pressButton",hM[v].OffButton)end
end

It randomly turns off only one light when the code is activated (and sometimes none).

You are returning from the scanHue function after the first time through the loop.  The 3rd line should be

 

      then h[no]=id no=no+1 end end return h end

I usually layout code with one statement per line and indenting like this:

 

function scanHue(roomID)
    local h,no={},1 
    for id,v in pairs(hM) do 
        if v.roomID==roomID 
        then h[no]=id 
            no=no+1 
        end 
    end
    return h 
end

 

It may take up more vertical space but it is then much easier to spot mistakes in the program flow and missing end statements etc.

Thank you for your assistance. I now works perfect.

 

It's gonna make it a lot easier to keep the house updated every time my wife decides to move a lamp to another room.

Hello,  i'am totally new here, but i got my HC2 working fine and now i'am trying to add HUE to my setup, i have one HUE lamp and it is connected to wall socket that is Z-WAVE so is made the Block action, and this works for 99% the only thing that isnt working is that when the light is off and gets triggerd again the brightness is 100.... Can someone help me....

On 9/2/2019 at 10:28 PM, inbedrijf said:

Hello,  i'am totally new here, but i got my HC2 working fine and now i'am trying to add HUE to my setup, i have one HUE lamp and it is connected to wall socket that is Z-WAVE so is made the Block action, and this works for 99% the only thing that isnt working is that when the light is off and gets triggerd again the brightness is 100.... Can someone help me....

 

Hi @inbedrijf ,

 

I think that you don't need to use any other devices on HUE lamps. Just remove that wall socket and use it for some other purpose. HUE lights can be remotely turned off and actually to be able to control them remotely they must NOT be switched off by switch. Using HUE plugin or HUE AIO VD is enough to control HUE lamps.

 

Hi @Sankotronic,

 

First of all, awesome job. The light react much faster than via the Hue integration. I have one problem tough and i dind't find the solution in here or in the manual. I can't get the lights to show up in Fibaro tablet app as Lights so i need to go to rooms, select one and there adjust. Is it even possible to get them to the widgets on the "main page" of the app?

 

Sorry if the solution is somewhere, my coding skills are quite none existing

 

Thanks in advance if you have time to awnser!

Hi @Janarta ,

 

For now virtual devices in old mobile app can be found only in rooms or in Virtual devices section. Fibaro is working on improving that and they already added categorization for virtual devices, but their new Home Center app still need to be improved too.

 

For now what you can do is open each VD for editing and select in which category you like it to show. Category selection can be seen on both tabs General and Advanced and is just bellow TCP port setting. Even if you do that in old mobile app nothing will change, but in new mobile app they should then show in selected category. Oh, just to mention that VD categorization is available from firmware 4.550.

 

 

Thanks, i will try that. I have the latest firmware on hc2

Hi Sankotronic,

 

i do something wrong. What if i want alarm with e.g. red color and after alarm ends the previous state color, brightness etc ?

 

local hM = json.decode(fibaro:getGlobalValue("HueMain"))
local hA = json.decode(fibaro:getGlobalValue("HueAlert"))   

local hueID = "XX"

hA.hue.flg = true;
hA.hue.rst = true;

fibaro:call(hueID, "pressButton", hM[hueID].alButton)

Every time i get white color after alarm ends and not the previous one.

Hi @Meinewenigkeit ,

 

I have checked code and there is really problem with returning previous state if color was set with hue and saturation and not with color temperature. Thank you for pointing that out. In next version of Philips HUE VD family I have solved that problem and I will make it available as soon as I write new user manual and do extensive tests.

 

 

Hi Sankotronic,

 

thanks for testing and reply. I have patience again. My weather vd icons still want change With ppm. ?

Hi @Sankotronic

 

I have a problem, but I don't know if it's a VD or Alexa problem.

I explain to you.

 

If I turn the lights off and on via HC2, there are no problems: they turn on with 100% brightness.

But if I turn the lights off via HC2 and then ask Alexa to turn them on, they turn on at 10%.

Is there any parameter to set that I haven't seen?

 

Thank you.

Hi @MarcoTorino71 ,

 

I have Alexa, but don't use it at the moment since Croatian is not supported language and to use it in English I have to rename all my rooms and devices to English names. Anyway it sounds to me that it is Alexa thing and it turns HUEs to last set brightness. You might tell it also at what brightness to turn on lights. You just need to say a few more words.

 

Of course I suspect that Alexa is controlling HUE directly and not over Fibaro skill?