Light advertised as Dimmable by Emulated Hue

[iditude]

Home Assistant release (hass --version): 0.65.5

Python release (python3 --version): 3.5.3

Component/platform: Emulated Hue KNX

Description of problem: Lights are advertised to Alexa as dimmable when in fact they are not. This causes Alexa / Echo to try to set brightness when he can't. Often commands are as such not understood by Alexa.

Here is an example of http://192.168.253.5/api/pi/lights from emulated Hue

"4": {"modelid": "HASS123", "name": "Applique Salon", "state": {"bri": 255, "on": true, "reachable": true}, "swversion": "123", "type": "Dimmable light", "uniqueid": "light.applique_salon"}

Expected: Non dimmable lights should be advertised as switchable only. Also the Alexa App should be able to control lights (it fails today).

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and steps to reproduce:

  listen_port: 80
  host_ip: 192.168.253.5
  expose_by_default: true
  exposed_domains:
    - light

EDIT: remove KNX piece as this is about Emulated Hue only and will do so for any type of light.

[iditude]

Changing to Emulated Hue impact only as after looking at the code, lights being advertised as "Dimmable" is actually hardcoded...

Line 353 'type': 'Dimmable light', from home-assistant/homeassistant/components/emulated_hue/hue_api.py

This shouldn't be the case as Alexa tries to control brightness on something that can't do that. I don't know if the API supports other values.

Thanks

[iditude]

Philips hue engineers confirm this is possible. Type for non dimmable lights (or switches) for instance should be 'On/off light' or 'On/Off plug-in unit'

Example of JSON are actually provided by Hue support: https://developers.meethue.com/content/whats-json-value-light-type-onoff-light

I have no knowledge of coding so can't really help, but this would be awesome.

Thanks

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[iditude]

Commenting to keep this open.

The issue is still present (0.70.1). We should definitely make the integration better.

Thanks

[MichaelBitard]

By looking at the code it seems it's been implemented, however I cannot find a way to set my lights to non-dimmable. (I'm using rfxtrx lights)

That's why they appear dimmable in hue

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[MarcelS04]

I have this issue currently. I use to trigger a shelly over REST and of MQTT

For both types it states: { "modelid": "HASS123", "name": "Schlafzimmerlampe", "state": { "bri": 0, "hue": 0, "on": false, "reachable": true, "sat": 0 }, "swversion": "123", "type": "Dimmable light", "uniqueid": "switch.schlafzimmerlampe" }

I don't know why it is advertised as dimmable light, because there is nothing dimmable at all.