yeah, but I prefer rule machine when ever possible. It's such a powerful tool.
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I get it. You can also do this with RM using scenes instead of CT, which is what I did because it's faster than ABC and the lights I used are in a zigbee group. Still have to choose individual lights for dimming up and down unless you do +/- X%, then you can use the group device.
So is there a way to ask hubitat developers for the feature request to allow startlevelchange and stoplevel change for hue bulb groups. It works great with runlesswire switches. This would allow dimming of groups with newer switches, such as inovelli red series
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This has been requested a few times in the past and they haven't commented on whether it is in the plans.
K, thanks. Got your inovelli driver working. Works awesome for 3 hue bulbs. When you hit 4 bulbs chaos ensues. Just need hubitat to update the group dimming. Would be great
FYI, I recently released a custom Hue Bridge integration that supports startLevelChange and stopLevelChange on groups:
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Do you think could provide or point me in the direction on how to do the first part of that rule? Best I could do is create the local variable but can not seem to get it like you have.
Sure, where does it hang exactly?
I started with removing all the button functions I'm not useing. So it's not that confusing anymore.
I think you have oroblems with button no 1? right?
I actually think I just worked it out. Was not using the button device option and had a search around as the other thing that was hanging me up was how to get the ELSE-IF option, but also found that. Thanks though 
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Hi all, I'm new to Rule Machine, and can't seem to find where/how to base actions on my device button presses.
I set OR triggers for each button press (1-4), but then for actions, I want to define these for each button. Can't seem to navigate to that 
Can anyone help?
Are you sure you used a "Button Device" trigger instead of just "Button"? (If the screenshot above is yours, you did, but I'm asking because I'm not sure if you were showing that as an example of what you did want.) "Button" makes you set regular triggers; "Button Device" will radically change the UI and give you separate actions section for each button event/number you specify, with no need to create triggers manually.
Yeah, found this thread: Found the fix here: Button Device Disappears From Trigger Menu It looks like button device is only in the trigger menu when you create a brand new rule.
All good now
Hi,
Anyone can explain how to configure the PushCounter to add 1 when push the button? I can't find it anywhere....
Thanks
First, you need to create a local variable (the name "pushCounter" is arbitrary but just as good as any). That's what the "Create, set or delete local variables" section does in the screenshot above. Then in your rule actions, you can manipulate the value of this variable (so what you're specifically asking about) using Set Mode or Variables, Run Custom Action > Set Variable.
Also, I hate to use this thread to plug yet another custom app I wrote, but Dimmer Button Controller can do this for you without needing to use RM or "track" a variable's value, though RM would give you more power. I wrote it to emulate the behavior of a Hue Dimmer on Hue (with a few optional extra features) if that's what you're after. If you use Hue groups, you'll need to pair it with CoCoHue (or, in general, devices that support startLevelChange and stopLevelChange, which individual Hue bulbs with the stock integration can still do) to get the full effect, otherwise you're stuck with "stepping" up or down by a specific percent on groups. So, one or two options that might help you with this if you're not opposed to custom code or are RM-averse.
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Thanks for your answer,
I installed ur app and it's very good...easy to use
One question, Could get rid of the Hue hub and install Hue bulbs and Hue Dimmers directly to HE? What would be the problem if so?
Hue bulbs will be problematic if you have other Zigbee devices. This is a genteel problem with many Zigbee bulbs -- they don't repeat well for other devices and may cause problems. You can find several forum posts about it, and it's also summarized in the docs. If you only have bulbs and no other Zigbee devices (the Dimmer might be OK), this could work; otherwise, keeping them on their own network is good. That's why I still use a Hue Bridge myself.
The Hue Dimmer can pair directly to Hubitat; but some people appear to have problems keeping it paired. I'm not sure what is going on there. But since I use a Hue Bridge and these can pair directly to that network (and Hubitat had a multitude of button devices that work well with it), I haven't tried; mine are paired to Hue. Basically, I use DBC to help me emulate Hue Dimmer behavior with a Lutron Pico via Hubitat; I still have a few Hue DimmerS, but they're on Hue where u don't have to set that up this way.
I was just reading about the issues u just descrived with hue bulbs, but ur explanation is much better, thanks
I liked the romantic idea to have all the devices on same hub and so...I have one hue dimmer paired with Hubitat for some months and didn't have any issue so far, but it was a secondary dimmer i didn't use much, I added it to a room now and will use it as main switch and see how it works.
As well I like the idea to have dimmers on HE so I can program the buttons to interact with anything linked to HE...I'm sure there is a workaround to do it even if the Dimmers are on Hue hub...But as I'm an amateur I would like to keep things as simpler as posible.
Thanks again for ur answer @bertabcd1234 you helped me a lot.
Hi,
maybe I’ve a small improvement for your Rule.
You can substract the number -1 from the variable pushCounter (this decreases the push counter)
After that just make another if condition to check
IF pushCounter < 0 THEN
pushCounter = 0
End IF
When using this, the pushCounter remains on the same level as it was when switched off.
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i cant set it up either
I didn't find this till after I got mine working. I basically did what @Ken_Fraleigh mentioned. I re-created scenes to match the ones I had in the Hue app. What hung me up for a while is that when you change the bulbs to what you want and try to capture it, it won't work unless you first go to the Hue bridge (in devices) and refresh. Then you can capture the scene. Here is how I configured them.
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