Philips HUE Motion Sensor

[Eisenhauer]

Hi,
i have the new Philips HUE Motion Sensor. With the native Philips app it works fine, but the sensor is not shown under devices in Domoticz.

I created two scipts to read the temperature and ambient light values with the HUE API and put them to a virtual sensor. Thats works fine and is no time critical. I can read the Motion detection state in this way, too. But for a real working solution is this to slow and takes to much CPU time from the PI. There should be an solution to use the native way from Philips.

Is there a implementation on the new HUE Hardware planned? I can help with API outputs an so on.

[Derik]

perhaps sent a mail to: [email protected]
Ask... Gizmocuz

[Eisenhauer]

I Wirte the mail. Maybe he have a solution. For now the Temperature Script.

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--Hue Bridge
local hueBridgeIP = 'Enter IP'
local hueBridgeAPI = 'Enter API'
i = SensorNumber from Temp Sensor

function getHueLight(id)
   local http = require('socket.http')
   local ltn12 = require('ltn12')
   local json = require('dkjson')
 
   t = {}
   local url = string.format("http://%s/api/%s/sensors/%s", hueBridgeIP, hueBridgeAPI, id)
   b, c, h = http.request{url=url, sink = ltn12.sink.table(t), method='GET'}
   huestring = tostring(table.concat(t))
   local hue, pos, err = json.decode(huestring, 1, nil)
   if (hue.name) then 
      hue_name = (hue.name)
      hue_temp = (hue.state.temperature)
      hue_temp = hue_temp /100
   else
      stop = true
   end 
   return hue_name, hue_temp, stop
end
 
 

commandArray = {}
--Sensor nummer

   local hue = getHueLight(i)
   
--First Number, idx number virtual device

   commandArray['UpdateDevice'] = '159|0|'..tostring(hue_temp)

 
return commandArray

[lbouriez]

There is no way to see the sensor in the device list to be able to use it with the blocky events ?

[Sneezydevil]

At the moment you could add a dummy switch and update that with the script. There is no support yet for the motion sensor in Domoticz itself.

[Eisenhauer]

Yes, there is no native support for now. I hope it will be change.

A Script solution for using the motion sensor is to slow in reaction. The motion sensor with hue bridge have a reaction time of 500ms.

[robhuls]

As far as I can see there is no native support yet. I switch a light with the motion sensor and defined that in the Hue app. If I want to do more, I can write a lua script in Domoticz that is triggered when that light goes on/off (e.g. turn on/off the TV). The response should be nearly instant if the switching of the light in Domoticz does not rely on a polling mechanism.

[PeetX]

Hi,
I try to run the script above, but with no succes. I get te following errors:
[string "--Hue Bridge..."]:7: module 'socket.http' not found:
no field package.preload['socket.http']
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/socket/http.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/socket/http/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket/http.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket/http/init.lua'
no file './socket/http.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket/http.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/loadall.so'
no file './socket/http.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/loadall.so'
no file './socket.so'
--------
after:
luarocks install luasocket

got the error:
error loading module 'socket.core' from file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/socket/core.so':
dynamic libraries not enabled; check your Lua installation


LuaSockets seems not to be installed correctly.
Can somebody help me to point out how to install luasockets on macOS.

[SSiRR]

Hi there,

I've got myself a hue sensor too, would be great to get it to work without slow scripting. If there is anything i can do to help testing just let me know. I will put some time in ASAP to see how the scripting part is done.

kind regards,

[Dropshot]

If you have a Hue Motion Sensor, you can use this LUA script to update a virtual temperature and lux sensor every 5 min. It's not useful to update these sensors more frequently, since the Hue Motion Sensor refreshes its temp and lux data only every 5 minutes.

There is no virtual motion detection sensor in this script, since time-based scripts are triggered only every minute, and thereby not useful for motion detection (although I can add this to the script if you have any use-case for it).

So, if someone does know a way to use the motion sensor to trigger events in domoticz, please post your solution here!

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--
-- A: create a virtual temperature sensor (Hardware - Dummy - Create virtual sensors)
-- B: create a virtual lux sensor 
-- C: If you haven't already, install the socket library: http://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Upload_energy_data_to_PVoutput#Install_socket_library
-- D: Change the variables in the code and trigger the script time-based
--

    -- variables to customiz below --
    local idTempSen = "xx"                                          -- ID of 'Temperature Sensor'- get it at: http://<<yourHueBridgeIP>>/debug/clip.html, fill in: url: http://<<yourHueBridgeIP>>/api/<<your UserName>>/sensors/ and hit GET
    local idLuxSen = "xx"                                           -- ID of 'Ambient Light Sensor' - get it at: http://<<yourHueBridgeIP>>/debug/clip.html, fill in: url: http://<<yourHueBridgeIP>>/api/<<your UserName>>/sensors/ and hit GET
    
    local idxTempSen = "xx"                                         -- idx of dummy Hue temperature sensor (search for the sensor in 'Devices')
    local idxLuxSen = "xx"                                          -- idx of dummy Hue lux sensor
    
    local localhost = 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080'                        -- IP Address of domoticz
    local hueBridgeIP = "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"                           -- IP Address of your Hue Bridge
    local hueAPIID = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"      -- your Bridge User Name
    -- variabes to customize above --

    function getDeviceInfo(ID1, ID2)                                -- function to gather temperature and lux data
   
        local http = require('socket.http')

        local base_url = 'http://'..hueBridgeIP..'/api/'..hueAPIID..'/'
        local deviceTemp = 'sensors/'..ID1..'/'
        local deviceLux = 'sensors/'..ID2..'/'
        local urlTemp = base_url..deviceTemp
        local urlLux = base_url..deviceLux
        
        local tempData = getHueData(urlTemp)
        local temperature = tempData.state.temperature
        
        local luxData = getHueData(urlLux)
        local lux = luxData.state.lightlevel
        
        return temperature, lux
    end
    
    function getHueData(url)                                        -- function to get current data from Hue Motion Sensor
        json = (loadfile "/home/pi/domoticz/scripts/lua/JSON.lua")()
        local config = assert(io.popen('curl '..url))
        local hueSensor = config:read('*all')
            config:close()
        local jsonHueSensor = json:decode(hueSensor)
        
        return jsonHueSensor
    end
    
    function updateSensor(idx,data)                                 -- function to update dummy sensors
        
        commandArray[#commandArray + 1]={['UpdateDevice'] = idx .. '|0|' .. tostring(data)}
        
    end
    
commandArray = {}                                                   -- actual script that is triggered every minute (time based)

 time = os.date("*t")

    if  ((time.min % 5)==0) then                                    -- only update sensors every 5 min

        local temperature, lux = getDeviceInfo(idTempSen, idLuxSen)
        temperature = temperature/100
        
        updateSensor(idxTempSen,temperature)
        updateSensor(idxLuxSen,lux)
    
    end
    
return commandArray

[Jordy]

I've been working on getting motion sensor support in Domoticz. It seems to be working, but it's still work in progress. You can check out my github fork @ https://github.com/JordyGitHub/domoticz ... ue_Sensors.

I've tested the windows build:

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[gingercat]

Cool - will have to give this a go at some point. Really want to be able to have more control over what happens when motion is detected/times out. The Phillips app doesn't let you do much.

[Jordy]

The latest Domoticz beta supports my Philips hue motion sensor extension (V3.6775). Try it out

[jjnj]

The latest Domoticz beta supports my Philips hue motion sensor extension (V3.6775). Try it out

Wow great news! Is also the light reading supported?

[Jordy]

I have only added the motion (presence) part. But I plan on looking into the others as well: lightlevel and also temperature

[Jordy]

I've updated my implementation (request pending @ domoticz github)

The Philips Hue motion sensor contains 3 sensors: presence, temperature and lightlevel. My previous implemention was for the presence sensor.
My latest addition is for the temperature sensor and light level (displayed as dusk switch).
Also Battery is correctly logged/displayed.

[constapel]

Working Great. Thanks very much for implementation. Now the time consuming Lua sript can be removed.
Thanks!

[constapel]

The HUE Senor can also detect LuX. Are you going to implement that aswell?

Hue Lux Sensor Showing how much light. Via Lua Script and Virtual LUX sensor

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[Jordy]

I've implemented it as a dusk sensor. You can set the threshold via the Philips Hue application and then the sensor state will indicate if it's Dark or Daylight.
Since it can't be both dark and daylight at the same time, I've let the dusk sensor check on the Dark state.

Would you like to have an additional sensor for the Lux (which will use the lightlevel value)?

Example of the lightlevel sensor state:
"state": {
"lightlevel": 14716,
"dark": true,
"daylight": false,
"lastupdated": "2017-02-25T13:50:45"
},

[constapel]

That would be very nice. If we have a Lux device we can make our own threshold actions via domoticz.
This would make the Philips Hue Sensor an excelent device for domoticz.
I think a will buy some more, because the possibilities will be endless ( not needing the the philips hue app for scene selections).
Thank you very much for the good work!