New to Hubitat and to Inovelli on/off switches. I have been using Philips Hue for many years (have 64 devices). First time trying to integrate my smart devices into a local hub like Hubitat.
I have the CoCoHue Drivers installed and can set Philips Hue scenes in Hubitat. I have several Inovelli Red Series on/off switches and the Inovelli driver installed.
In RM, I have it set up so that when I push the Condition button (button #7) on the Outdoor light switch (Inovelli Red Series on/off switch) it changes the outdoor Philips Hue lights to an Xmas scene (multi-colours). No issues. But, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to also send Notification #2 (set up in the Inovelli Outdoor light switch to flash green) to the Outdoor light switch when this rule is run.
Essentially, under normal circumstances, the LED on the Outdoor light switch is pink and the outdoor Philips Hue lights are normally warm white. But, at Xmas time, when I push the Condition button (ie. button #7 in Inovelli setup) I want the LED on the light switch to flash green when the scene changes to Xmas lights so I can see from a distance from the light switch that Xmas lights are on. When the Xmas scene is off, I also want the LED notification (flashing green) to also turn off and the LED on the switch to return to its normal pink status.
I can't get the Notification (#2 as set; flashing green light status) to play along. Any ideas for this appraoch?
If you're using Inovelli's drivers and have "notification 2" configured for your on/off switch (Inovelli LZW30-SN), then what that should do is create a "child device" (will show up under the parent device when in list view and also show up under "Component devices" on your switch's device page) for that notification. This device is a switch you can turn on or off like a "regular" switch. Turning it on will configure the switch LED bar to start the notification; turning it off will configure the LED bar to stop the notification. It will also get stopped before then if you activate another notification before that point (you can only have one active at a time, and neither the switch nor driver has a queue of any sort), double-tap the config button (an on-device way to stop notifications), or have the notification configured to display only for a specific time (as opposed to indefinitely). If you're running old firmware on the switch, pressing the on/off paddle on the switch also used to stop the notification, but that was addressed with a recent update that you probably already have if you just bought them new.
So: to get what you want, it sounds like all you need to do is turn on the "notification 2" child device switch whenever your Christmas lights are turned on, then turn off that child device when the Christmas lights are turned off. Depending on how you're handling those and what you prefer, you should be able to add this switch to your existing automation or create a new automation with something like Simple Automation Rules that turns the notification on or off based on the Christmas lights turning on or off (that second thing might be best, since that will catch any way you happen to turn them on--e.g., even if you do it via Alexa or something instead of a button press).
If you don't see the child device I'm talking about, then it's likely that not all of the preferences for notification 2 were set. You should have options for color, level/brightness, effect, and duration, and all of them need to be set to something before it will create the child device.
Thanks much for your response. I do have the 'Child device' already set up and for Notification 2.
I did not try the Simple Automation Rules before. So, I set it up. See picture. But still a no go. The LED light on the switch does not change. Is it possible that the system just does not realize when the Outdoor Hue lights scene is changed to Xmas lights - and therefore there is no 'trigger' to send Notification 2 to the switch? I have waited a couple of minutes, in case it was some sort of polling issue to detect the Philips Hue scene was on. No luck.
Possibly! (Shouldn't happen if everything is working correctly, but you never know.) This is easy to check: keep the device page for the device you're using to "trigger" notification 2 open and look at the "Current States" section. You should see it change from "switch: on" to "switch: off" and vice versa when expected. You can also check the "Events" button/tab at the top to look at what's happened in the past. If there isn't something in "Events" (which should happen if the state changes), then the rule will never trigger.
If this is a Hue scene you're triggering off of, this can be tricky since Hue doesn't track on/off states of scenes. CoCoHue tries to be pretty smart about this and infer that a scene is off if the corresponding group is off (for example) and showing scenes belonging to the same group as off if another scene from that group is activated, but this may not always work. I'm not sure how you're de-activating the scene, but if done from the scene device itself, this should be OK. But it's all mostly inferences since Hue itself doesn't "know" anything about this.
