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Use Hue lights with two F@H wall switches #86

Open JvD12 opened 3 years ago

JvD12 commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I would like to control a single Hue light with two F@H wall switches. With a single wall switch eveything works fine but with 2 or more the state isn't synchronized between all linked wall switches. I have seen the comment about the Hue emulator:

"Here's how I control devices in Home Assistant through my in-wall switches: I configured the emulated_hue component, so that Home Assistant works as a Philips Hue bridge, and exposed some lights through it. I then added that Hue bridge to free@home, and the exposed lights showed up in free@home. I can then link my in-wall switches with the virtual Hue light bulbs and control them. Maybe you want to try something similar instead of reading the sensor values directly?"

But I don't understand how to do that. Both the Hue lights and F@H switches are available in Home Assistant. Is it an option to write/update the state of a binary sensor with the F@H API?

JvD12 commented 3 years ago

nobody an idea?

Tho85 commented 3 years ago

You can configure the emulated_hue component to make Home Assistant look like a Philips Hue bridge. This virtual Hue Bridge will then be detected by free@home, and you can drop all lights configured in HA onto your free@home floor plan. It has nothing to do with your existing Hue bridge or the fact that you have actual Philips Hue bulbs; this works for any light that can be controlled by Home Assistant.

Take a look at the docs on how to set it up.

matteagle1 commented 10 months ago

Since updating the SysAP firmware to 3.2.0, the Emulated Hue Integration unfortunately doesn’t work for me anymore. The SysAP no longer recognizes the Emulated Hue. Only the physical Hue Bridge is being detected. Is there a possible solution? Does anyone have the same issue?

Tho85 commented 10 months ago

According to the release notes of 3.2.0, the SysAP now supports "Hue API version 2". AFAIK emulated_hue emulates Hue API version 1. Maybe they dropped support for API version 1 altogether?

I guess there's not much we can do about it, except re-implement emulated_hue to emulate API version 2.