[ST Edge] Philips Hue LAN [BETA] (3rd Party Driver, Not ST Native)

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752

Right on, thanks! One of my hue bulbs fried, replaced it, hadn’t kept up on things… And here I landed! I’m back in action

753

I am missing settings and link menu. Please help. Thx

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754

same problem.

755

This is a know issue, See this post [ST Edge] Philips Hue LAN [BETA] (3rd Party Driver, Not ST Native) - #698 by blueyetisoftware

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756

unfortunately it doesn’t work for me

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Still missing linking option.

thanks for the help

757

You need to scroll down to the commands section

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758

Yeah, I can imagine it would be. Just know that even in the current state, I’m still very happy with this driver and very appreciative of all the help you’ve been providing.

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759

It worked with my new Smartthing station and my Philips bridge
It did not ask me to authenticate with a button, but it did not update me, however by following the steps in the link above I was able to manually make my lights and motion sensors appear with all the functions, thank you!

760

This driver is working well for me, having to use the discovery workaround but that’s OK. I would like to implement the normal dimming control from Hue dimmers and tap-dial switches though. Is there any way to do that? If I use the dimmer straight from the Hue app I lose the power of being able to assign routines to different button presses, or I move it to this driver and lose the dimming controls.

Supplementary question; what’s the difference between Toggled_down and Pressed?

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761

Is anyone using this driver and Sharptools? I’m struggling to get the color right when triggering colors via SharpTools rules. Any suggestions that have worked for you?

762

Are you using the setColor() command with a hue, saturation, and level?

What are you having trouble with?

763

Yes, that’s what I’m using but the colors don’t seem to match. I found the Hue and Saturation from the Smartthings Advanced app after setting them to the color I wanted. The color I set doesn’t match the color set via SharpTools.

764

Hi. Is the link still working? It shows a deny screen after clicking on it. Thanks anyway.

765

I’m getting this as well. :frowning:

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Update on recent SmartThings issues…

To date, I have not heard from ST on a date for when the app issue will be fixed. This issue removed the ability for a bridge/hub to have a custom UI. There was a recent YouTube video declaring the driver dead. First off, it is my intention to continue supporting this driver. I appreciate the passion and sentiment of the video, but I am not planning to abandon the driver at this time. Hopefully the video will inspire ST to be more responsive to the community that is essentially working for free. However, this breaking change has me at a bit of a log jamb. There are no good workarounds that aren’t either a complete hack or wouldn’t require existing users to start over with a new installation/setup. The shortest path to get this running again is to get ST engineering to fix the issue in the mobile apps.

What was lost due to this breaking app change?

  • Ability to link the hub for local control
  • Selectively discover devices instead of importing everything
  • Ability to turn the entire hub on/off
  • Removed the integration to support geofencing across to the Hue hub
  • Removed the ability for the hub to have custom preferences
  • Can no longer acknowledge the disclaimer that enabled lighting effects and blinking

What does this mean for existing users?

  • Can still operate their existing devices without issue
  • Users can still import additional lights at the room/zone level only
  • Users can NO longer import sensors, buttons, cameras or additional rooms/zones

Any workarounds?

  • The functionality that was hidden by the app is still there in the driver
  • You can still access that functionality through the SmartThings Advanced Web UI
  • Find your Hue hub in the device list
  • Scroll down to Commands
    – link Puts the driver into pairing mode for 30 seconds while you push the link button on your Hue hub
    – discover Imports devices of the chosen type
    – refresh Synchronizes data for all the imported devices and scenes on the hub

Background on the issue

@AutomateYourLife regarding SmartThings Community Management

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768

Thanks for you effort and for the clarification. If I start today with your driver, would I have any issue (aside for adding sensors, buttons, cameras or additional rooms/zones ?

769

Yes. You’ll have all of the issues described above and will need to use the “Workarounds” to get past them during setup.

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770

@AlejandroPadilla / @Ivan_Luis_Falleau Any updates on this issue? We really need the ST app to allow hub/bridge devices to have a custom presentation and custom preferences. The change to make all hubs show child devices made this driver unusable in the mobile apps.

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Hello @blueyetisoftware and every one, this is still a work in progress. It is planned to be done in future releases.

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