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

[PhiDeltDexter]

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]

@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]

@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.

[michael5r]

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

@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.

Yeah, that confirms my assumption.

My intention with the groups was just to show rooms, though - I just don’t have any of these multisource groups myself, so I never realized they were also being shown.

I pushed an update to the module that filters out anything that doesn’t have a type of room - if you pull it, your list should shrink to a more manageable size :)

If you’d like to have the ability to filter these groups - just in case you do want to show ones marked LightGroup - just post it as an issue on GitHub and I’ll build a real filtering functionality.

[michael5r]

Just wanted to announce that there’s a new version of this module out!

I added functionality to support Paviro’s MMM-PIR-Sensor module meaning that this module can now be suspended & resumed based on movement detected through a PIR sensor (or whatever else you’re using for motion detection).

Check out the release notes here:
https://github.com/michael5r/mmm-hue-lights/releases/tag/1.3.0

[dazza120]

@michael5r I’m having a issue with the hue lights and MMM-Remote-Control, when viewing it from that app the hue module comes up with an error, it says
Hue API Error: Error: read ECONNRESET
it still changes when you turn on a bulb but would go back to the Error shortly after. When I use VNC to view it as long as I haven’t used mmm remotre control to view it, it works perfectly any ideas?

[michael5r]

@dazza120 That seems odd - let me check it out & see if I can replicate.

[Christian]

Hi,

I installed the module today with my Deconz gateway (not Hue).
Everything works fine but I´m not able to use my defined groups.
Lights are working great but the Hue bridge uses rooms and not groups, I think thats my problem.
The Deconz gateway uses only lights and groups.

The module MMM-Hue works great with the Deconz gateway but it´s basic. The new module looks much better.
Is there a way to fix this problem?

Regards,

Christian

[michael5r]

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

Hi,

I installed the module today with my Deconz gateway (not Hue).
Everything works fine but I´m not able to use my defined groups.
Lights are working great but the Hue bridge uses rooms and not groups, I think thats my problem.
The Deconz gateway uses only lights and groups.

The module MMM-Hue works great with the Deconz gateway but it´s basic. The new module looks much better.
Is there a way to fix this problem?

Regards,

Christian

Sure - open up the mmm-hue-lights.js file and go to line 670.

You’ll see a comment saying for the groups, let's immediately filter out anything that doesn't have a type of 'Room' and a code block that looks like this:

Object.keys(data.groups).forEach(function(key) {
    var itemType = data.groups[key].type.toLowerCase();
    if (itemType !== 'room') {
        delete data.groups[key];
     }
});

If you delete or uncomment that code block, it will no longer filter out anything that isn’t a room.

[Christian]

@michael5r

Ok, thank you for the fast reply. That’s working for me.

Regards,
Christian