Philips Hue lights - set color, brightness and turn on via scene

[ThatDude 0]

Hi,

 

I have Philips Hue connected to my HC3. I can see all the lights, and controll them via manual actions.

 

I want to have a scene, where it sets a particular light to a specific color/brightness and turn it on, but I'm having issues with that.

 

First I created a block scene, with three actions:

1. HueLight setColor
2. HueLight setBrightness
3. HueLight turnOn

With this approach the light turns on, but the setColor and setBrightness are ignored, I assume because they are sent to a light that is off. So of course I tried:

1. HueLight turnOn
2. HueLight setBrightness
3. HueLight setColor

This results in the light first turning on full brightness and no color, and then only the color changes (brightness command is ignored), so then I tried:

1. HueLight turnOn
2. HueLight setColor
3. HueLight setBrightness

This time, the light turns on full brightness, no color, and then it's dimmed (the color command is ignored).

 

I also tried to do it via a LUA Scene:

 

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but it behaves exactly like the block scene.

 

Is there a better way?

How can I check what LUA commands are available for Hue devices?

[marczu_83 22]

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Use setValue to set Brightness

 

 

[ThatDude 0]

Thanks for the tip, I'm almost there.

 

The script:

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turns on the light and sets the brightness.

 

Now I just need to set the color as well. After setting the right color in the Hue app, I've run:

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which returns:

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but, running:

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doesn't set the appropriate color. Actually it breaks the whole Hue integration, and you can't controll any of the Hue lights until I reboot the whole HC3.

 

Any ideas how to set the particular color I've already configured in the Hue app?

[ThatDude 0]

Ok, so my final working script is:

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One unfortunate thing is, that this turns on the light with the right color, but the brightness is set after a small delay, which means the light turns on with full brightness, and then is adjusted to the correct one

[AchoSK01 0]

Just skip the turn on and use only set color or set value...

[ThatDude 0]

Thanks for the tip. skipping the "turnOn" improved things slightly. But I haven't found a way to turn the light to 5% and set color.

 

If I run

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Then the light will turn on to 5% brightness, but it will be white (not blue as intended)

 

If I run

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Then the light has the intended color, but it's 100% bright.