Emulated Hue support

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Matt Titus

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Oct 21, 2017, 8:22:56 AM10/21/17
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Hello,

I've been looking into an application that I can set alarms etc that leverage my existing home automation network which I use Home Assistant with a bunch of Z-Wave switches to control lights.  I noticed that your application has support for Philips Hue and it can actually recognize my virtual bridge on the network however when attempting to select it just returns "Bridge not responding".  I imagine this is very much related to the fact you guys bake in official Hue v2 support which this may not be however I just wanted to see if this type of thing would be potentially supported in the future because it could be extremely helpful in setting Smart Alarms where you can tie calls to the Emulated hue back to Alarms which ultimately is what I am doing.  Just to note this is a fair bit different than just using a hue bulb because the Emulated Hue exposes a device along the network that appears as a hue device when in fact it actually is not.  In my example Sleep as Android could effectively call a device in Home Assistant which is a group that could Dim on lights over a period of time as well as turn on a coffee pot (or something of the like) and it would not require a cloud based caller to do so which would increase the reliability of the action which is where IFTT really falls short IMO.

Anyway I just think this could be a really great feature especially if it were supported directly with Home Assistant and a great way to walk into the smart home integration using Sleep as Android and far more potetnt than IFTT.  I posted a few links below in case you have any interest.  If you decide to include something like this I would be more than willing to assist in testing any of the features/integration however note I do not have nor own any true Philips Hue devices.  If this should already work and I am just doing something wrong please let me know that its just me and I'll fade into the distance slowly.

Thanks for your time!

Matt Titus

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Oct 21, 2017, 8:33:52 AM10/21/17
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Sorry, I never mentioned two things; 

1.  The latter link to bwsystems is a different project that performs a simliar task for emulating a hue bridge however its not a part of the Home Assistant project.
2.  Another probably easier implementation is to just provide an HTTP post function as many of these systems allow you to communicate to them via a REST API, Home Assistant and OpenHAB do this very well.

Overall this solution can be accomplished via tasker but I feel like it would fair better as a feature of an alarm style application as well developers could potentially integrate sleep tracking into their HA systems

Jiri Richter

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Oct 23, 2017, 11:16:04 AM10/23/17
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Jiri replied
Oct 23, 17:15
Hi,

I have skimmed over the emulated Hue Bridge info page -- do you have any idea why it doesn't work with our implementation? Does the emulated Hue only support v1 Hue protocol?
This is not the first time anyone has asked us to integrate the Home Automation project, but we have currently a little too much on our hands to integrate another service. As you said, it already can be accomplished via Tasker/Automate. But I feel that for some reason it seems to be not enough to you -- why is that? What do you feel is missing in the Tasker integration or why is it insufficient?

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Jiri Richter
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Sleep as Android Googlegroup replied
Oct 21, 14:34
Sorry, I never mentioned two things;

1. The latter link to bwsystems is a different project that performs a
simliar task for emulating a hue bridge however its not a part of the Home
Assistant project.
2. Another probably easier implementation is to just provide an HTTP post
function as many of these systems allow you to communicate to them via a
REST API, Home Assistant and OpenHAB do this very well.

Overall this solution can be accomplished via tasker but I feel like it
would fair better as a feature of an alarm style application as well
developers could potentially integrate sleep tracking into their HA systems

Sleep as Android Googlegroup sent a message
Oct 21, 14:23
Hello,

I've been looking into an application that I can set alarms etc that leverage my existing home automation network which I use Home Assistant with a bunch of Z-Wave switches to control lights. I noticed that your application has support for Philips Hue and it can actually recognize my virtual bridge on the network however when attempting to select it just returns "Bridge not responding". I imagine this is very much related to the fact you guys bake in official Hue v2 support which this may not be however I just wanted to see if this type of thing would be potentially supported in the future because it could be extremely helpful in setting Smart Alarms where you can tie calls to the Emulated hue back to Alarms which ultimately is what I am doing. Just to note this is a fair bit different than just using a hue bulb because the Emulated Hue exposes a device along the network that appears as a hue device when in fact it actually is not. In my example Sleep as Android could effectively call a device in Home Assistant which is a group that could Dim on lights over a period of time as well as turn on a coffee pot (or something of the like) and it would not require a cloud based caller to do so which would increase the reliability of the action which is where IFTT really falls short IMO.

Anyway I just think this could be a really great feature especially if it were supported directly with Home Assistant and a great way to walk into the smart home integration using Sleep as Android and far more potetnt than IFTT. I posted a few links below in case you have any interest. If you decide to include something like this I would be more than willing to assist in testing any of the features/integration however note I do not have nor own any true Philips Hue devices. If this should already work and I am just doing something wrong please let me know that its just me and I'll fade into the distance slowly.

Thanks for your time!

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