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

[PhiDeltDexter]

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]

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]

@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]

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]

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

[Christian]

Hi,

is there a way to get lights or groups sorted by name?

Regards,
Christian

[michael5r]

@christian Not currently - I’m just displaying them in the order that the API spits them out.

[Christian]

@michael5r Ah, ok. But it would be a nice feature for the future.

[michael5r]

@christian Sure - post it as an issue/feature request in the Github repo for this package and I’ll find some time to build it!

[dhoggan]

Hi,

I’ve recently installed this module and setup pretty painless. I am, however, having some issues in customising the display. As it’s likely me and not the module I thought here might be a better place than Github to ask.

The first issue is that, despite setting the position to be middle_center it adamantly displays justified to the left. If I set it as bottom_center, bottom_right or a variety of other positions it displays as expected; but always to the left if middle_center selected.

The second issue is that I can’t seem to get grid mode working. I’ve modified custom.css as advised, but it it just displays as a single column. I’ve even tried a full reboot of the RPi, but no difference.

The third is more of a question as I can’t find out how to do this. One of the display examples has the left column with room groups and the right with individual lights. Can anyone point in the direction as to how to do this?

Also - and I haven’t tried this yet - but has anyone tried this with two hubs?

For completeness, the config.js looks like this:

          {
                     module: "mmm-hue-lights",
                     position: "middle_center",
                     config: {
                            bridgeIp: "w.x.y.x",
                            user: "12345678901234567890",
                            displayType: "grid",
                            displayMode: "groups",
                            displayFilter: ['all'],
                            hideFilter: ['Annex'],
                            updateInterval: "5000"
                }

Thanks,

Dave

[dhoggan]

Hi,

Just to add that I have managed to work out why the multi-column grid wasn’t working - it was down to me adding the suggested lines between the default { } entries. Adding the lines at the very end of the file and I have columns at last! Just in case anyone else ever has the same issue the custom.css file looks like:

body {

}

.mmm-hue-lights .grid {
width: auto;
display: flex;
flex-flow: row wrap;
margin: -10px;
max-width: none;
justify-content: center;
}

.mmm-hue-lights .grid .hue {
width: calc(25% - 20px);
margin: 10px;
display: block;
}

Still puzzling over how the example had rooms in one column and lights in another - if anyone knows I’d be grateful of the help.

Thanks,

Dave