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Philips Hue remote dimmer switch, not all buttons working

Posted: Saturday 19 December 2020 10:49
by pocock
I went to the Scenes tab and created a Group

I added a bulb to the group

Then I clicked to Add Device

I pressed the button on the Philips remote and it was added in the group

Pressing the button with the big asterisk (*) symbol turns on the group (bulb), log entry like this:

domoticz[548]: (zigate0) UpdateDevice - (zigate0 - RWL021_LvlControl-0017xxxx-02) 1:48
domoticz[548]: Activating Scene/Group: [g0]
domoticz[548]: Activating Scene/Group Device: sitting room ceiling (On)
domoticz[548]: (zigate0) UpdateDevice - (sitting room ceiling) 1:67

Pressing the button with the little asterisk also turns on the group but I found that I have to press it more than once

Pressing other buttons has no impact on the group.

Can anybody provide more details about how to setup the Philips Hue dimmer buttons or it is not fully supported?

Re: Philips Hue remote dimmer switch, not all buttons working

Posted: Saturday 19 December 2020 12:59
by waaren
pocock wrote: Saturday 19 December 2020 10:49 Can anybody provide more details about how to setup the Philips Hue dimmer buttons or it is not fully supported?
I have the dimmers setup via the native domoticz - Hue bridge on the hardware tab and all 8 types of button-presses (on, off, increase dim, decrease dim * (long , short) ) are recognized immediately so I assume the issue is related to your zigate implementation.

Re: Philips Hue remote dimmer switch, not all buttons working

Posted: Saturday 19 December 2020 18:24
by pocock
I have a Hue bridge that I hoped to avoid using

Is there any hope for this to work with Zigate or any other strategy?

Re: Philips Hue remote dimmer switch, not all buttons working

Posted: Saturday 19 December 2020 19:10
by waaren
pocock wrote: Saturday 19 December 2020 18:24 Is there any hope for this to work with Zigate or any other strategy?
Are you going to report it on the Domoticz-Zigate/issues list ?

Re: Philips Hue remote dimmer switch, not all buttons working

Posted: Sunday 20 December 2020 10:10
by pocock
I created an issue there but they recommend asking here first

https://github.com/pipiche38/Domoticz-Zigate/issues/763

Re: Philips Hue remote dimmer switch, not all buttons working

Posted: Sunday 20 December 2020 17:43
by pipiche
pocock wrote: Sunday 20 December 2020 10:10 I created an issue there but they recommend asking here first

https://github.com/pipiche38/Domoticz-Zigate/issues/763
Please do use the Zigbee forum here if you believe that is an issue on the integration.

No clue how the Scene/Group works, from my understanding they are not supported by the plugin as the Zigate and the plugin support native Group.

So I would say that your problem might be related to Device <-> Group/Scene and may be the Device Update doesn't correspond to what the Scene/Group expects !