Does anyone have any experience with the ‘Hue’ parameter of a Group of Bulbs reports differently than the bulbs? I have a Inovelli Blue bound to two Philips Hue Bulbs via the Groups and Scenes app. The binding functions correctly – dimming is spot on from the physical switch and the remote activations to the group reflect correctly on the switch and the bulbs.
There is an oddity where if the bulbs have been ‘RGB’ and then are switched to CT the hue value from the group and bulbs desyncs. It isn’t that it doesn’t get updated, it appears to just be incorrect. I will have to wait again to get a proper screen shot - I tinkered for a while before I came here and I am struggling to forcibly reproduce the phenomenon.
I think this usually would not be a problem, but I am using HA (Home Assistant) as my front end and the light icons will report colors like Teal when the individual bulbs show ‘yellow’ and ‘orange’ and the bulbs/group are all in RGB (not CT). Basically, I have a yellow and orange bulbs physically, with a teal icon on HA. I first blamed HA for the mix-up, but when I traced it back I found that the Hubitat group was actually reporting the Teal value to HA; while in HE the bulbs were correctly reporting their individual Orange on one bulb and Yellow on the other.
I have seen this mix up for single bulbs and if the bulbs are both on the same color (in RGB mode). It appears to be ‘hue’ that drives HA to report the color to the icon (converted to RGB).
I think if this is just the way it is I can maybe use HA to request information from one of the bulbs to set the color of the icon or find another reporting refresh workaround, but it seems like the group should pull some ‘hue’ parameters from the objects in the group, but it also makes a lot of sense that it wouldn’t (because what good is ‘hue’ of the group if every bulb is different?).
Any insight is appreciated!
Thanks Community,
-MC
