Hue Service Advanced

Modify the hue integration behavior for sensors and remotes.

• Set a custom refresh rate and monitor the current polling rate for each Hue bridge.
• Add service to set motions sensors

Place the custom_components folder in your configuration directory (or add its contents to an existing custom_components folder). You need to set up Hue bridge first.

Service set_motion_sensor
Set config for binary sensor or sensor.

  fields:
    entity_id:
      description: Name(s) of the entities to set.
      example: "binary_sensor.hue_motion"
    sensitivity:
      description: Set sensitivity for binary sensor motion ( value between 0 and sensitivity max).
      example: 2
    tholdoffset:
      description: Set offset for dark mode into binary sensor motion ( value between 0 and 25000).
      example: 7000
    tholddark:
      description : Set offset to dertermine insufficient level.
      example: 16000
    sunriseoffset:
      description: Set sunrise offset.
      example: -30
    sunsetoffset:
      description: Set sunset offset.
      example: 30
    long:
      description: Longitude
      example: -115.81
    lat:
      description: Latitude
      example: 37.235
    "on":
      description: Enable/Disable sensor.
      example: true

Track Updates

This custom component can be tracked with the help of HACS.

Debugging

If you get an error when using this component, the procedure for debugging is as follows.

1. Open an issue here on Github. Include the error message, release number of the custom component.

There are a couple of examples of this process in the debugging_issues folder.