Turn off all devices when Philips Hue Tap switch is pressed

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Hey Guys,

I’m using a Hue Tap switch. When I click on one of the buttons my Hue lights turn off. I’d like to extend this to some other devices, for example: my Hyperion Led strip behind my TV.

What first came to my mind was this rule: “when hue light 1,2,3,4,5 are switched off turn of device a, b and c”. I don’t think this is the best solution… Thats why I created this post.

I’m controlling my Hue Lights with pimatic-hue-zll. I’m wondering if there is a way to watch for a certain event. So I can change the rule to: “When off button is pressed turn off device a, b and c”.

Thanks for your help!

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe you can use a Hue group for that?

pimatic-hue-zll device discovery finds:
Hue light group 0: Lightset 0 (all lights)

Isn’t it possible to use such a device in a rule?

http://www.developers.meethue.com/documentation/sensors-api (you need to be registered)

There seems to be an API to get the sensor states with timestamps so if one doesn’t mind polling and the delay it should be no problem to add the hue sensors to an hue plugin.

Maybe @markbergsma can help?

@lxz I looked into the lightgroup0 solution but when I change the state of a light (switch light 1 on for example), the state of lightgroup0 does not change. so thats a bummer

It seems it is possible to read the state of a group in 2 ways:

"state":{"any_on":true, "all_on":true}

1. If all lights within the group are ON, then “all_on” and “any_on” are true.
2. If any light within the group is ON, then “any_on” is true while “all_on” is false.
3. If all lights within the group are OFF, then “all_on” and “any_on” are false.

Not sure it this is (or can be) implemented in the plugin though

Seems to me that you can curl and jq the state and create a hidden shellsensor and act on output…

So create a script, filter the json that has the state, echo out “off” and create a rule
WHEN blabladevice is “off” THEN turn things off.

@Gleno0h @lxz Thanks for the suggestions. Actually created a node script which checks the variable and returns true or false. But then I encountered the following problem: I also want to pause my music when I leave my house. And I still want to listen to music when the lights are turned off. If I create a shell sensor I would not be able to do this.

So I decided to go for the easy, less perfect solution. I have two rooms with Hue Lights. When on of the lights in one of the rooms turns off I trigger the rule.

The rule:

When
Bol is turned off or when Sfeer is turned off 

then
turn off Desk light and turn off ledstrip_tv and pause Sonos slaapkamer

This works pretty well because I almost never turn on only one of the lights. Usually in groups. So yeah. Not perfect but it works for now.

@Tim why would that not be possible?

WHEN pingprecensedevice is absent and shelldevice of bashscript is “off” THEN pause Sonos slaapkamer and turn off blabla?

@Gleno0h Yeah good point, this will work. But in my case it does not happen instantly. I actually want to see it happen right away (so i’m sure it’s turned off). My phone location updates every 15 minutes I could make it update more frequent but that will probably kill my battery. Actually pretty happy with the way it’s working now. Almost instant response and only encountered one problem in an other rule which is my ‘sleep’ rule it plays music and then turns off the lights but I could easily fix this to make it turn on the music after the lights were out.