New Hue delay

[JDRoberts]

@Jonny_Wilson

I’ve been going nuts with hue, what I’m experiencing is what others here are seeing. This is unacceptable for ST. I’ll be glad when the hue motion sensors arrive next month.

Hue motion sensors now up for pre-order on Amazon.com for the US and Amazon.co.UK for the UK, both say release the first week of October.

Hue Motion Sensors FCC-approved; coming October 2, 2016 (US), October 4, 2016 (UK)

This one is really interesting. As we mentioned before, anything in the US which uses radiofrequency has to have an FCC license. And those licenses typically are granted several months before the company even acknowledges that it’s working on a device. Time to market can vary a lot after the FCC license is granted. The Logitech Harmony hub extender, for example, had its license about a year before it finally got to market. Sometimes the FCC license is the very last thing needed, and the device shows up about a month later. So that part you can’t predict until The manufacturer actually starts talking about the device, and not always then. ( The FCC license materials for the smartthings V2 hub included the Bluetooth antenna which has yet to be turned on almost a year after the product star…

edited for clarity: we still don’t know whether the new Hue motion sensors will be visible to SmartThings or not. It could end up being a parallel means of control, like the Hue dimmer switch or the Hue tap. That is, SmartThings would know if a bulb attached to the bridge came on that had been triggered by the motion sensor, but it wouldn’t know anything about the motion sensor itself. That will still work for my purposes, but it’s just not yet clear whether the Hue motion sensors could be used to trigger other SmartThings events. We’all just have to wait-and-see.