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

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!