Support Hue Smart Button

[vbambuch]

Hi, is there a way how to connect Hue Smart Button with this project?

If not, would that be possible to add it to the component stack? 🙂

[dongennl]

I have the same question! Happy to help develop it, just a bit new to JS.

[Foddy]

I started working on it but I couldn’t find any docs for this device. I mean I don’t know what kind of button events there are available for this device and how the bridge addresses them.

Maybe somebody can provide me this information?

[dongennl]

Hi @Foddy, thanks.

There's not much documentation, even Philips doesn't have it in their documentation yet.

I did find this thread, which contains the events:
dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin#2077

I don't have one yet, but maybe someone else with one can confirm.

[Radiotechniman]

+1 for me too

[bacongravy]

I am also curious about this. I looked at the thread linked to by @dongennl and according to this comment it looks like the Smart Button presents itself as "type": "ZLLSwitch", which also seems to be what the Hue switch node searches for:

node-red-contrib-huemagic/huemagic/hue-bridge.js

Line 152 in 5e65298

else if(payload.type == "ZLLSwitch")

node-red-contrib-huemagic/huemagic/hue-switch.html

Line 69 in 9a2010e

$.get('hue/sensors', {bridge: bridgeConfig.bridge, key: bridgeConfig.key, type: "ZLLSwitch"})

It looks to me like the buttonevents (1000, 1001, 1002, 1003) match up to the events here:

node-red-contrib-huemagic/huemagic/hue-switch.js

Lines 70 to 91 in 9a2010e

	var buttonActionRaw = parseInt(sensor.state.buttonEvent.toString().substring(3));
	if(buttonActionRaw == 0)
	{
	buttonAction = "pressed";
	buttonActionLocalized = RED._("hue-switch.node.action-pressed");
	}
	else if(buttonActionRaw == 1)
	{
	buttonAction = "holded";
	buttonActionLocalized = RED._("hue-switch.node.action-holded");
	}
	else if(buttonActionRaw == 2)
	{
	buttonAction = "short released";
	buttonActionLocalized = RED._("hue-switch.node.action-shortreleased");
	}
	else
	{
	buttonAction = "long released";
	buttonActionLocalized = RED._("hue-switch.node.action-longreleased");
	}

So as far as I can tell, the Smart Button should already show up in HueMagic as a Hue Switch that acts like it only has an "On" button. Can anyone confirm? Thanks!

[dongennl]

Thanks @bacongravy ; I've just ordered one, as need one anyway; hopefully be able to confirm your findings soon.

[jimmyeao]

Looking forwards to this, literally just has a look to see if I could trigger some logic. Sadly, doesn't appear in the Hue Switch List.

[dongennl]

Yep, just got mine, It does NOT show up as a Switch or Tap. Do we need to make a new component?

[jimmyeao]

It would be great if we could!

[jimmyeao]

Any update on this? Would be really cool to see it added

[dongennl]

I'm very new to all this, but reading the js/html I think we need this info from my bridge to be able to select the Smart Button:

"43": { "state": { "buttonevent": 1003, "lastupdated": "2020-08-10T00:04:20" }, "swupdate": { "state": "noupdates", "lastinstall": "2020-04-17T14:06:01" }, "config": { "on": true, "battery": 100, "reachable": true, "pending": [] }, "name": "Hue Smart button 1", "type": "ZLLSwitch", "modelid": "ROM001", "manufacturername": "Signify Netherlands B.V.", "productname": "Hue Smart button", "diversityid": "8b18a40c-eb6a-40d7-a0af-eb0906613d41", "swversion": "2.30.0_r30777", "uniqueid": "00:17:88:01:06:07:60:0c-01-fc00", "capabilities": { "certified": true, "primary": true, "inputs": [ { "repeatintervals": [ 800 ], "events": [ { "buttonevent": 1000, "eventtype": "initial_press" }, { "buttonevent": 1001, "eventtype": "repeat" }, { "buttonevent": 1002, "eventtype": "short_release" }, { "buttonevent": 1003, "eventtype": "long_release" } ] } ] } }

I'm looking at 'hue-switch.html' to see how the selection is done:
I found this line:
if(sensor.model == "Hue Wireless Dimmer Switch")

I don't see this value anywhere in the JSON for the Switch, I only see:
"productname": "Hue dimmer switch"

So not sure how we change the selection here to make it show buttons instead of switches...
How do we make it select on "productname": "Hue Smart button" ?
Anyone knows how this works?

[dongennl]

Ok, did some work on this, the "Hue Wireless Dimmer Switch" comes from Huejay, a dependency; it doesn't seem to be maintained.
Created a new mechanism using the bridge JSON to separate the Switches from the Buttons; got it working locally; need to clean up and will do a pull request (I'm new to this!).

Any help testing/reviewing appreciated, my fork is here:
https://github.com/dongennl/node-red-contrib-huemagic

[jimmyeao]

Nice, I’ll test it later, thanks for this :) Jimmy White

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[dongennl]

Just created pull request #191

[jimmyeao]

Darn, I run Node-Red in a docker, looks like I'll have to wait for the Pull to be merged first. Everytime I restart Node-Red it just overwrites the package with the original version :/

[dongennl]

Oh @jimmyeao it's super-easy on Docker; I use it too; just copy your main node-red container on another port (make sure to map to different volumes if using); now you have a blank node-red install; attach to the container, apt install npm, go into the node-red directory and 'npm install [github URL (not ssh, use https)]'.
You can attach to the same Hue Hub at the same time and test.

[jimmyeao]

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ npm install git@github.com:dongennl/node-red-contrib-huemagic.git
npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL
npm ERR! Could not install from "github.com:dongennl/node-red-contrib-huemagic.git" as it does not contain a package.json file.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-08-17T11_42_09_047Z-debug.log

Edit, never mind, got it installed with https 👍

[dongennl]

try
npm install https://github.com/dongennl/node-red-contrib-huemagic.git

probably a permission issue; there is a package.json in the root.

[jimmyeao]

Got it installed now, can detect long and short presses just fine :)

[Foddy]

Thanks you all for contributing and testing! I've just merged the new Hue Button node along with updated docs in v2.8.5+ :)!

[vbambuch]

Awesome! Thanks a lot guys. Looking forward to test it out. 😉

[jimmyeao]

Hmm, since updating my palette the Hue Button node isn't outputting anything, despite its status text changing

[dongennl]

Same for me, I had cloned the Switch Message, but looks like Foddy is already making a fix for 2.8.6 (change to HueButtonMessage).

[dongennl]

Just updated to 2.8.6 and works now. Thanks @Foddy

[jimmyeao]

Yep, working like a dream, thanks for this @dongennl and @Foddy