[OBSOLETE] Hue Dimmer Switch (ZHA) (beta) (no hue bridge)

[JDRoberts]

@Snakedog116

Someone in another post said that I need both the dimmer switch and motion sensor for the dimmer switch to work? I don’t see that anywhere in this forum. Do you have both, or do you just have the Hue Dimmer Switch?

I believe you’re referring to the comment of mine and that was specific to a different device type handler. Different device type handlers are handling the dimmer switch in different ways. The method used in the thread

[OBSOLETE] Hue Accessories and rooms using Hue Bridge (TAP, Motion Sensor, Dimmer Switch) [DEPRECATED]

I could not resist it, I acquired a Hue motion sensor and a dimmer switch, already had some TAP´s. I wanted to put the house in night mode when the TAP was pressed late in the evening, so the TAP had to be visible in ST as a device. The problem with the Hue API is that it does not provide events to the outside world. So it had to be a poll implementation, not a good idea to have the hue bridge polled every second (well the Hue bridge might not be bothered) but the ST cloud will be. But polling faster for a shorter period of time might deliver a more responsive Hue Sensor for ST, as i had ST motion sensors in lots of places I got the idea that the probability of someone pressing a button on a hue sensor is higher when there is motion going on in it´s neighbourhood. So it has two parallel …

Is for dimmer switches which are still connected to the hue bridge. Not connected directly to the SmartThings hub. That author has been trying to expose the Hue dimmer actions to SmartThings using the Hue Bridge API, But his method involves polling a sensor.

The method being used in this thread is completely different. It is trying to attach a Hue dimmer switch directly to the smartthings hub and use the ZHA endpoints.

So it’s the same device, but it’s being used in two very different ways with two very different device type handlers. Comments from one thread will not apply to the other device type handler