Philips Hue status check

[ahof007]

Dear Development,

The Philips Hue integration is working fine only one way. The Hue bridge is in control. When the light are manually switched off, by power-off the physical power switch, the lights still marked as "UP" while the bridge will see the light as "reachable:false" after prox. 10sec. This will not be checked or send by the bridge. So this need to be monitored. Most people use Domoticz as there central point of management.

State information:
State on: {"state": {"on":true,"bri":254,"hue":14910,"sat":144,"effect":"none","xy":[0.4596,0.4105],"ct":370,"alert":"none","colormode":"ct","reachable":true}
State off: {"state": {"on":false,"bri":232,"hue":0,"sat":0,"effect":"none","xy":[0.3804,0.3768],"ct":248,"alert":"none","colormode":"hs","reachable":false}

Is it possible to mark the lights as unreachable (red title bar or other icon option) automatically after ca. 1min by Domoticz after a time-out as the same Domoticz will do if it not receive updates?

regards, Arjan

[gizmocuz]

do you mean "off" by psychically take the power cord out of the wall ?, or unscrew the light bulbs ?

[ahof007]

Thanks for your response. Great tool Domoticz!

By unpower the bulbs (can be unscrew, remove power cord or switch a manual switch or remote switchable wallplug like fibaro or rfxcom 433Mhz) the bulb is marked as unreachable in the Hue bridge after ca. 10seconds. The Hue bridge will not send any message it seems like (tested by tcpdump on HTML headers) while is does when you control the bulbs by phone app or Domoticz.
It should be a pre and advantage if Domoticz can see if the light are unreachable like the app when the light are power-off manually. You know which action you should take to switch the light from the central management tool Domoticz.
Not my hole house had radio based wall switches for example and more people use the physical (controlled)switches and will dim the light afterwards in the (bed rooms) by the app when necessary.
Normal behaviour is that Domoticz will mark a device down (red title bar) if it will not receive a update within 3 days. But it seems not working for Hue likes also

A second feature can be that the lights which are automatically discovered by domoticz from the bridge also can recover the lights separately from a previous state. Normally the lights are burning 100% after power-on bubls again when its lost power (seems a safety feature from Philips).
Im now testing the script from Simonrg to overcome this (colors/white level , dim percentage).

Regards Arjan

[simonrg]

A second feature can be that the lights which are automatically discovered by domoticz from the bridge also can recover the lights separately from a previous state. Normally the lights are burning 100% after power-on bubls again when its lost power (seems a safety feature from Philips).
Im now testing the script from Simonrg to overcome this (colors/white level , dim percentage).

Just a note of caution my scripts where written before Domoticz had native ability to control Hue lights and so talk directly to the Hue bridge, and don't change the status of the Hue lights in Domoticz. I guess you could use the same method to update the status in Domoticz, but currently that ability is not there.