I've added a Phillips Hue smart button to my setup, thinking I could get it to toggle my living room lights on/off.
Prior to getting the button, my lights turned on/off perfectly using room lighting, but that required our phones to turn on/off.
So, I added the hue to those rules, and I cannot get it to work. Here are my rules. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. Can you help?
Not sure about that app but I use "Button Controllers" built in app. Also I think the same "Button 1 pushed" is doing 2 things , on and off. Should 1 be "held" ? You have the same button action doing 2 things. You could try changing the action to "toggle"
I agree on leaning toward Button Controller for this, and just set up the Button 1 Push there as Toggle this Room Light's Activator Device.
And then remove the "toggle when..." stuff in your RL Means to Activate Lights section, as well as the "Turn off when..." stuff in the Means to Turn Off Light section.
You do not need the button push OFF since you have Toggle in the Means to Activate. Toggle by itself will do what you want on its own.
Also, the suggestion to move the button rules to either Button Controller or Rule Machine would work fine too. Since you already have an Activator device created, you could just have the button toggle the Activator as it would accomplish the same thing.
I tried the button controller app, still not working. It works when I test it from within the app, but not when I push the button. I've included a screenshot of the rule and the button's settings page.
Does the button’s event page show your button presses?
In Button Controller, toggle the Room Lighting's Activator Device only -- not any of the specific lights themselves.
I guess never mind... I tried this with my aqara button and it works just fine. I mean, I'd love to know if my hue is broken or set up incorrectly, but at least something works!
Try changing the driver to the "Hue Smart Button". The driver you are using is for the 4 button dimmer switch.
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