One light accessory per room about homebridge-hue HOT 5 CLOSED

What would one lose?
Would i still be able to control each light bulb on and off?
Could i still create a scene by selecting only some of the lightbulbs in the room vs having to use all of them?

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Based on my experience with my plugin for Sonos, you'd lose little to nothing. Most of HomeKit, incl. Siri, works on services; accessories seem to be used only for room assignments. The iOS built-in Home app shows a tile per service; Elgato's Eve shows a line per service (in the Rooms view), but when you touch that line for details, it shows all services for the accessory; Matthias' Home app show a line per accessory in the Home view and a line per service in the Services view.

I do expect some effects when moving a light from one room to another: HomeKit might treat the corresponding LightBulb service as a different service when attached to another accessory, losing any links to scenes and triggers. Then again, you'd probably want to change these anyways, when a light is moved to a different room.

Anyway, better wait with trying this out until after we've gained some experience first exposing the Hue Motion sensor as a single accessory with three services, rather than as three separate accessories.

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makes sense to wait.
Plus as long as it's an option should be safe.

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You would lose the ability to Identify an individual light, as that's linked to the AccessoryInformation service.

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I've abandoned this idea for now. While I still think it makes sense to group multiple lights into a single HomeKit accessory, e.g. all spots/bulbs controlled by a single wall switch, you'd want finer grained control than the rooms on the Hue bridge. Also, deCONZ doesn't support rooms.

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