Phillips hue/ST integration bug

Devices & Integrations
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@jdroberts is correct.

This is how I would do it.

  • Create one virtual switch called dining room lights.
  • authorize Alexa in the ST app to control this VS
  • create a rule in rule machine like this:

Condition: VS on
Rule: VS on
Actions for true: turn on (choose all of your lights here). Run custom command - refresh()
Actions for false: turn off selected lights, run custom command - refresh()

This allows you to control each bulb individually via Alexa. It also allows you to turn ask if them on/off via Alexa or ST at once.

Note - if you chose “set these dimmers” in the actions for true instead of “these switches” you can set a dimmer level for the lights to come on.

So if you already ththem at 100% when you turn them all on, then they will if you chose that option.

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Another solution I use is I have a cooper stick on switch that controls my master bedroom fixture with 4 hue white bulbs. This has instant reporting. I se the dim with me smartapp to link up the 4 bulbs to to the master dinner cooper switch. I remove the individual bulbs in Alexa and when I tell her to turn on the master bedroom lights. She turns the switch on and it and the bulbs update status immediately in smart things.

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Just thought I’d throw in my experience. Maybe someone could point me in the right direction…

I’d be OK with ST getting back in sync with a poll every 5 mins. The problem is that this doesn’t seem to be the case. If I control a Hue light with a Hue remote, then ST never gets in sync. It’s almost as if it’s not polling to get the latest state…?

If I go to “My Home” in the iOS app, it will tell me that some bulbs are on when they’re not and visa-versa. If I pull down on the screen to force a re-fresh (a bit like you can do with an email client to get it to sync your mail) I would expect that to force a re-fresh, but it doesn’t.