Philips Smart locks

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I am using Danalock smart lock with Hubitat.
Mostly happy with the setup, but today I saw a new generation of Philips smart locks.
As far as I see, there is no integration between Hubitat and Philips locks.

Does anyone have an idea, if we have a chance to make an integration ?

I'm generally asking about Philips locks. But specifically I'm interested in these models:
Alpha VP-5HWS - camera+screen
Alpha V-5HWS - camera
Alpha 5HB - no camera

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I'm not aware of any way to integrate at the moment. If they are exposed via the Hue v2 API, it would theoretically be possible (I have not seen that in the API but haven't looked at many changes since it was originally published, and it's also not finished yet as far as I've seen). If they ever release their Matter lock and Hubitat adds Matter support (a to-do feature on the C-8 according to the press release when it was announced), that could also be another way.

But, again, nothing I'm aware of at the moment. If you want a lock in Hubitat, your best bet is a Zigbee or Z-Wave model that can pair directly to the hub.

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thanks. apparently you did not read my post fully. I already use my hub with a zwave lock which works.
But Philips locks have really very nice features, so I'll check them.

It is not in Hue API , it is separated from Hue lights and has another app I think.

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Not only did I read your post fully, I believe I directly answered your question. I was simply stating the reality about supported devices at the moment; apologies if that was distracting.

This is also what I suspected, as I mentioned above. I am familiar with both versions of the Hue API, having developed a popular community Hue integration.

I just checked to see if anything has changed, and as far as I can see, this is still correct (I wouldn't be surprised if this changed in the future, though it looks like they do consider the v2 API stable now; or I could also see them doing this another way given the enhanced security some may want for these devices).

I'm not familiar with how it works now, but I wouldn't be surprised if this changes in the future given their expansion of security features into the Hue ecosystem (how much sense that makes is another story :slight_smile: ). See their new Hue Secure line of products and the outrage it caused some people to learn that they would require an account to use the Hue app, with this being Philips' reasoning behind the change.

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I hope they add it to Hue Api or at least provide an API which we can use to integrate Hubitat.

Btw, since you know Hue api v2, I have a question (unrelated to the subject);
is there a way to control lights fast ?
I have an android app on which I use an 3rd party java library. I can send commands to the bridge with a max of 10 requests per second.
But that is not fast enough for me because I am working on a live color changing app.
Is there a faster way of controlling lights ?

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I haven't seen Hue publish any "hard" limits for the v2 API, and the ones for v1 (like 10 commands per second for bulbs max) were suggested maximums, though not necessarily problems. Your Java library probably is probably doing something to keep you in line with those guidelines to keep things safe. But I suspect it's still a good guideline for the v2 API given the reality of the underlying Zigbee protocol.

If you need to control a bunch of devices at once, a group or scene is a better choice. And dynamic scenes, newly accessible in the v2 API, allow you to do more without needing to send a bunch of commands at once if you're trying to do something that might otherwise require it, like cycling colors.

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actually there is a hard limit on the bridge.
The library is not limiting me. It is an opensource library and I don't see any request limiting functions.
On the contrary, since it is not limiting, if I don't drop the frequency, too many requests are going to the bridge and then it starts denying requests.

I am using rooms or zones to group control lights.
What is a scene and a dynamic scene ? Can you point where it is written in the API docs ?

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Let me re-phrase: I am not aware of any documented rate limits for the v2 API. If you are running into problems, clearly you have noticed something and can hopefully adjust as needed.

Scenes are a longstanding Hue feature you are probably familiar with if you have ever used the Hue app...

Dynamic scenes are similar, except the instead of setting a group of lights to a specific "static" setting (a scene), they can do things like adjust color or level continuously as long as the scene is "active."

Here is a quick reference, though you can find more examples with a search of their forum and more information in the actual API reference: https://developers.meethue.com/develop/hue-api-v2/migration-guide-to-the-new-hue-api/#Scenes

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