core: Philips Hue lights flash command not working
The problem
Since the new release Hue lights won’t flash with the flash command. They will just turn on, and stay on.
The previous behaviour when using flash is that the light would flash a given number of times – depending on whether short or long was passed as a parameter – and go back to its previous state (either on or off based on the state of the light when the flash command was issued).
What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?
2021.12
What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?
2021.11.5
What type of installation are you running?
Home Assistant OS
Integration causing the issue
Philips Hue
Link to integration documentation on our website
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Example YAML snippet
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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?
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Additional information
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About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 3 years ago
- Reactions: 2
- Comments: 24 (12 by maintainers)
Well, that breathe effect is something else then the old flash but I suppose it can be used for the same. The breathe effect is used by the Hue app when you select a light in the configuration, so you’ll know what it looks like.
I can add it back if there’s still interest but it will take me a few days. Is that OK ?
It’s not developed yet. I said I’ll look into it next couple of days 😉 I think I’ll add the effect “breathe” to the lights and make sure it still accepts passing in legacy flash if that’s possible
It’s a definite yes please from me.
Good news. Someone on the Hue forums pointed me to an alternative method for the short flash. I’ve PR’ed a fix for that: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/62988
Do note that a long flash will always keep the lights ON (disregarding previous state) while a short flash returns to the previous state.
It’s just a statement is all - I have no problem with progress and I absolutely agree & think that HA has to go with Philips on this (and your work on this aspect has been exemplary over the last week or so - so thanks for that).
Philips are of course catering to a mass market of customers who will think that dynamic scenes are the best thing since whatever, totally unaware that there’s capability in the equipment to do so much more. Or at least there was.
@zigomatichub that is correct, see here: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/61733
For short flash, send “turn off” command with flash
reopened as a reminder to myself 😃 Alert will be back based on the breathe, which will be similar to “long alert”. Short alert doesn’t exist anymore.
Thanks for the clarification. It would have been great if this had been explicitly mentioned in the release notes.