MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!

dazza120 · Dec 18, 2018, 9:44 PM

Hi is it possible to do a hide light or group that you don’t want to be seen rather than adding all the ones you have? As my hue stuff is in its infancy and it’s always having more bulbs added I would rather that it populated new bulbs rather than input the name in the model, I don’t even know if this is possible with your module? But it’s staying on my mirror thanks again for a beautiful module 👌🏾

michael5r · Dec 18, 2018, 9:44 PM

@dazza120 said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

Hi is it possible to do a hide light or group that you don’t want to be seen rather than adding all the ones you have? As my hue stuff is in its infancy and it’s always having more bulbs added I would rather that it populated new bulbs rather than input the name in the model, I don’t even know if this is possible with your module? But it’s staying on my mirror thanks again for a beautiful module 👌🏾

There wasn’t the option to do so previously, but there is now.

If you pull the latest version of the module, you’ll find a new setting called hideFilter. It works exactly the same way as the displayFilter setting, but in reverse - any names you add to hideFilter will be hidden on your mirror.

Like this:

hideFilter: ['living room'],

Any lights or light groups named living room will now be hidden.

Check it out and see if it works for you.

dazza120 · Dec 18, 2018, 10:02 PM

@michael5r said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

@dazza120 said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

Hi is it possible to do a hide light or group that you don’t want to be seen rather than adding all the ones you have? As my hue stuff is in its infancy and it’s always having more bulbs added I would rather that it populated new bulbs rather than input the name in the model, I don’t even know if this is possible with your module? But it’s staying on my mirror thanks again for a beautiful module 👌🏾

There wasn’t the option to do so previously, but there is now.

If you pull the latest version of the module, you’ll find a new setting called hideFilter. It works exactly the same way as the displayFilter setting, but in reverse - any names you add to hideFilter will be hidden on your mirror.

Like this:
hideFilter: ['living room'],
Any lights or light groups named living room will now be hidden.

Check it out and see if it works for you.

Works brilliantly i missed the brackets [ ] as i thought it didn’t need it, but put them in and boom works like a dream now home-away mode won’t bug me lol. Thanks again

PhiDeltDexter · Dec 19, 2018, 9:31 PM

Would you have any idea as to why I am showing multiple identical groups? I thought it was coming from one of my other connected apps to Hue, however I went in and disabled all the other apps and it still shows up. I cant seem to find a way to use hide or show since they have identical names.

PhiDeltDexter · Dec 19, 2018, 9:43 PM

As a work around to this, I went into my Hue app and renamed all my rooms with a 1 on the end, and hid all the ones with that 1. I am not sure where it is pulling the groups from if not the Hue App.

michael5r · Dec 19, 2018, 10:19 PM

@phideltdexter This is most likely due to you having Entertainment Areas set up on your Hue system as well.

Open up the Hue app, click Settings, then Entertainment Areas and see what’s in there.

If that’s not it, let me know and I’ll do some more debugging on my end.

PhiDeltDexter · Dec 19, 2018, 10:22 PM

I also thought about that. I had 2 entertainment areas setup already. One in living room and another generic one. I removed them just to make sure, it removed one duplicate of Living Room, but not the others.

In addition when I disable all the filters I have a list of groups that takes up almost my entire screen. The majority of which are not in the Hue App, which is why initially I thought it had to be pulling from somewhere else besides the Hue App.

PhiDeltDexter · Dec 19, 2018, 10:25 PM

I also only have 2 formulas installed in Hue Labs. 1 of them is candlelight, so that is where that one comes from. The others, I am still not sure. I also went in and changed the names of all my rooms in my SmartThings environment which didn’t change anything either.

michael5r · Dec 19, 2018, 10:30 PM

@phideltdexter said in MMM-Hue-Lights - new module for your Philips Hue lights!:

I also thought about that. I had 2 entertainment areas setup already. One in living room and another generic one. I removed them just to make sure, it removed one duplicate of Living Room, but not the others.

In addition when I disable all the filters I have a list of groups that takes up almost my entire screen. The majority of which are not in the Hue App, which is why initially I thought it had to be pulling from somewhere else besides the Hue App.

Ahhh … I think I know what this is - I think these are multisource groups and lightsources. Give me a minute to come up with a fix that ignores them from the group list.

PhiDeltDexter · Dec 19, 2018, 10:47 PM

@michael5r

Here is what it shows for Type. I didn’t even think to check. But perhaps if you are filtering out group types, you could add a category for Rooms in the future? Otherwise it shows them as a LightGroup.