Hue Group/Room - Rogue Automation

Last night, for Halloween, I disabled all automation for my Foyer hue lights as I wanted them to remain on while gremlins were coming to our house looking for treats. Unfortunately, these lights would still shutoff at no particular time interval. They remained on for 10 -40 minutes or so. The logs only reported that the light was turned off. This morning, I decided to simply disable the bulbs in Hubitat but they would still shutoff at random times. In frustration, I shutdown Hubitat, Home Assistance and Apple home. It made no difference.

After restarting everything, I moved the two hue bulbs from the Hue room to another room and moved another bulb into this room. Sure enough. The new bulb would now turn off while the other two remained on. Obviously, the issue is the group/room but how do I find out what routine is shutting this group off? It can't be any of the hubs I mentioned above and when I look at the Hue app I see no automations defined.

I know I could just delete this Hue room and use another room but but somewhere on network is a routine calling to shutoff several bulbs.

Do you have it integrated with Alexa and have Alexa Hunches enabled? It's on by default. Here's how to disable:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G63YSH7WU32D9GW9

No it is not enabled. I had totally forgotten about Alexa as I do not use it for much of anything. Certainly not for device control. In fact I would like to remove every device from it but can't figure out how. For now I will turn off Alexa and see if this Hue room will stay on.

So much for that idea. :smiling_face_with_tear:

SOLVED. The problem had nothing to do with Hubitat or any other hub I was testing. The problem is with Hue and the inclusion of the motion sensors. I never even looked at Hue because I knew I had no automations (or so I thought) defined here and assumed my problem was within any of the above hubs. It seems that when you added a motion sensor to the Hue hub it asks you for a roomto move the sensor into. Once you add a room the motion sensor will (at the very least) shut off any lamps after a motion sensor becomes inactive. Who knew? I sure didnt.

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