Lightify support about homebridge-hue HOT 1 CLOSED

@sejoki

I have three PAR16 spots that, after an update, are working fine, but don't seem to be recognised by home kit as color temperature enabled.

Please note that the iOS 10 Home app provides only limited functionality. In particular, it doesn't support custom characteristics like Color Temperature. You might want to use another HomeKit app, like Eve. See Caveats in the README.

I have it in a couple of scenes and every now and then (not always though) I get the error

This is expected behaviour: the Hue bridge doesn't support changing light attributes when the light is off. Or more precisely, when the Hue bridge thinks the light is off. See below.

Sometimes it doesn't turn on at all, sometimes it does but doesn't apply color changes (there's a second error message that I wasn't able to recreate right now)

When the communication between the Osram light and the Hue bridge fails, the Hue bridge might report the wrong light state and bridge commands might not reach the light. The Zigbee connection between the Hue bridge and Osram devices appears to be less robust that the connection between the Hue bridge and Philips devices. I don't have any Osram Lightify lights myself, only two On/Off plugs. I do find the Hue bridge reports them as unreachable on occasion. I expose the reachable attribute as Status Fault to HomeKit, but again, the iOS 10 Home app doesn't support this. In Eve, you'll see a red exclamation mark when the device is unreachable. Unfortunately, with the current design of homebridge-hue, I cannot expose reachable as HomeKit Reachable (see issue #4), which is supported by Home.

And the fourth type of device is the Lightify plug. It only shows the on/off state as it's not dimmable, but I find it highly confusing that it shows up as a light bulb.

My bad. I exposed the On/Off plug as a Light, instead of a Switch. I only have lights connected to the On/Off plugs and didn't really think about this. Fixed in v0.1.1.

from homebridge-hue.