Philips HUE AIO VD standalone 3.1

Hi @Sankotronic

 

thanks for reply.

 

Yes I control HUE with Alexa and not over Fibaro Skill ( Fibaro Skill doesn't expose VD...).

 

Yes, of course I can set the brightness with  some few words. But I don't understand why Alexa Skill doesn't work properly.

You can always first turn on HUE bulb with HC2 to 100% then use Alexa to turn it off and then back on and see what happens. If Alexa still turn bulb to different brightness then you will at least know that it has nothing to do with HC2 and HUE AIO VD.

 

BTW to control HUEs do you use HUE AIO VD and VSL scene combination or you do it differently?

Yes most of the time Alexa turn on and off the lights.

The problem is when I activate one of the scenes with which I turn off all the lights and activate the alarm: at that point Alexa does not activate them at 100% brightness.

 

I only use HUE AIO VD without the VSL. I created the scenes via LUA of AWAY and HOME

Just tested Alexa and indeed when you say Alexa turn on <bulb_name> it turn it to 10 % only.

I always use: Alexa turn <bulb_name> to <desired percentage> %.

 

And do you set brightness to 10% with scenes in some point or just turn off without changing brightness? Asking because just trying to find connection between HC2 HUE control and Alexa

 

@Bodyart  was faster

Of Course

1 minute ago, Sankotronic said:

And do you set brightness to 10% with scenes in some point or just turn off without changing brightness? Asking because just trying to find connection between HC2 HUE control and Alexa

 

@Bodyart  was faster

 

Hi @Sankotronic,

 

i'm fully convinced that there is no connection between Alexa and HC2 regarding HUE. Alexa controls HUE directly, so just switch HC2 off and Alexa will control HUE the same way

 

Hi @Sankotronic,

I Notice if I switch HUE  off (In the HC2) it will  occasionally list in your VD 1 (Light glows)

How to let it switch off to zero?

Please advice,

//Sjakie

Hi @Sjakie ,

 

I'm not sure if I understand what do you mean? Can you gie some more info about when this happens and what exactly?

Hi @Sankotronic,

 

If HUE is switched of by HC2 sometimes and  I have no clue why it shows in your VD bri=1 and the light glows a bit

To switch light off  I dont use to set brightness to zero just switch off.

//Sjakie

 

Hi @Sjakie ,

 

Do you use VSL scene to control HUE AIO VD or some other code? I know that VSL scene sometimes get confused and does not turn off HUE completely if motion sensor was breached in the moment when scene is dimming lights before turning them off.

Hi @Sankotronic,

I am using :

SA_HUE_Preview_1.1

Philips HUE AIO VD v3.1 standalone

Event Runner to switch on/off

//Sjakie

Hmmm, that is strange. And what is the settings of the Transition speed slider? Maybe it is possible that bulb doesn't manage to switch off completely if this slider is set to longer times. I will have to check that.

 

Hi @Sankotronic

Transition timer from 10 till 100

cannot seem to get this to work any more when hue running on HTTPS, i keep having to repair it each day

On 9/28/2020 at 8:56 PM, Al3x said:

cannot seem to get this to work any more when hue running on HTTPS, i keep having to repair it each day

 

Hi @Al3x,

 

have you setup your HUE bridge to have static IP address?

If HUE is running HTTPS on local network then VD would stop working completely and my HUE VD's are working just fine whole the time.

Check your bridge network settings and set it up to have static IP address and not one get from DHCP server

 

Hi, does this run on Home Center 3 as well? If not are there alternatives or is this planned to be made available there as well? Thanks

Hi @Sankotronic,

 

Thanks a lot for the topic and help. I have a HC3 and the hue white ambiance led. In this case, it seems that only Brightness and Color Temperature are used to control the light. However, only Lua command for changing brightness seems to exist. Do you know about any solution to control Color Temperature? Would your VD work? and if so, I guess it's not adapted to HC3... Thanks for taking time to read.

Best regards

Antoine

On 12/2/2020 at 9:56 AM, NHST said:

Hi, does this run on Home Center 3 as well? If not are there alternatives or is this planned to be made available there as well? Thanks

 

Hi @NHST@AntoineF,

 

HUE AIO VD is for HC2 only, but there is alternative from @jgab for HC3 that you can find here

 

Hi @Sankotronic, thanks a lot for the help. I tried that one as well as the "QuickApp - Philips Hue - All in One" from petrkl12 but none of them allow to control color temperature in scenes, at least not in block scene. "Children of Hue" doesn't allow to control color temperature at all at device level. The other "QuickApp - Philips Hue - All in One" does allow color temperature control at device level but not in block scenes. I am checking with them if there is a Lua command to control this. I am waiting fore their reply.

 

Thanks for your help.

I have happily been using the Philips HUE AIO VD standalone 3.1 for some time.

However one thing is bugging me.

I have a button “101.7” activating a scene, which turn on 2 lights ( I have made a group “Lys over spisestue” in the HUE bridge)

The scene defines the different levels, as you can see.

However, the levels is not right when I call the scene on the button, not even if the lights are switched off at that level.

Especially the brightness level makes a peak and then quickly adjusts down to the defined level (35%)

Is there a way to avoid this peak?
I have several groups acting the same.

is there any chance to adopt hue motion sensor as VD?

In the main loop i got an error from the virtual device: The "SA HUE Preview 1.1". See attached

The only way to resolve this is to restart my HC2

 

How can this be fixed?

If you need more info let me know.

 

HC2 V4.620

 

Hello @samuel,

 

From debug screenshot it is clear that global variable content is lost and VD is rebuilding them. ERROR is caused by missing data, which is odd since data should be renewed before that part of the code is executed.

 

I looked at the code and found bug. It is all about language settings. After rebuilding global variables language is not set in the first run and therefore code stops on error.

 

Solution is to change code line 168 which is now:

  local langTable=json.encode({language="",

to

  local langTable=json.encode({language=lng,

This should solve problem with code ERROR.

BUT there is still remaining question, why are global variables destroyed. Most common cause is to use Save button in global variables panel. Another cause can be writing wrong data to those variables, but since all variables are reported to be repaired this is not the case. Can you confirm that you never use SAVE button in global variables panel?