Hue Dimmer in Button Controller automation, direct pair vs. CoCoHue

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I have the hue dimmer switch v2.
Connected to hubitat directly i can get the button presses and holds to do different actions across devices (ie one button for an IR press, one button for turning on a smartplug) using HE button controller.

However I cant send the dimmer with the functionality ive set over to Google Home.

Does this app in any way help with that functionality?

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I would need more information about what you're doing, but it sounds like it might be a configuration issue with your app, possibly a mismatch of the events you're using compared to what the device is actually generating. Have you verified that the button events are the ones your app is looking for? Sharing more information, including your app setup, may help make this clearer.

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I have only connected the Philips Hue Dimmer v2 (which is a remote button device) direct to Hubitat.

Using this method i cannot share the device to Google home either with Hubitat integration or Google Community driver integration.

I am wondering if using a bridge in general or more specifically using your CoCo bridge integration grants the ability for devices added via a hub and your drivers to enable Google to see these devices with their configuration set in the bridge.

I apologize i realise this is more of a google question than specifically your app.

I guess im asking with your knowledge of how the default hue bridge integrates and how your CoCo version integrates with Hubitat, when trying to add linked devices such as the dimmerv2 i have to google smart home service, as directly linking by just pairing zigbee to hubitat results in an inability to share the device with google.

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Unlikely. I don't think any Google Home integration supports button devices.

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There are really only two ways to make this work since Google does not support button devices:

1.) You can try using the community integration and setting up the button as a scene device type. This can be tricky, but would potentially give you voice control in Google Home.

2.) The other way is to create virtual switch in Hubitat, configure it to turn off after 5 seconds, create a rule that when the switch turns on it also pushes the button, and share the virtual switch to Google Home. This will work; though, you might be configuring a lot of virtual switches depending on your buttons.

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You're right. Using Scenes does work as I want but is a bit of a faf.

Cheers though.