Hue Zones to Homekit? about homebridge-hue HOT 3 CLOSED

if I turn on an individual light within that zone, the group flashes on and then returns to off state.

That’s weird. I would like to see a debug log of when that happens. Are these Hue light strips?

Homebridge Hue doesn’t know which lights are in a Hue bridge group; it’s up to the Hue bridge to reflect the group state correctly. By default, the On characteristic of the group accessory is mapped to the state/all_on attribute of the Hue bridge group. In this case, the group accessory should show on, only when all of its member lights are on. If you set anyOn in config.json to false, it’s mapped to state/any_on instead, and the group accessory will show as on, when any of its member lights are on. See https://github.com/ebaauw/homebridge-hue/wiki/Configuration. Note that in this case, you won’t be able to get Siri to turn the group on, when one of its member lights is already on.

Alternatively, you could create a HomeKit scene in Eve, or another decent HomeKit app, to set the Any On characteristic to off, and recall that scene from Siri.

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@goshawk2929 Are you using iOS 17? Because I think this might have to do something with iOS 17 and how it syncs the states between home hubs and iOS devices. And at least for me it is not hue exclusive as I have that problem with other HK devices too. It usually happens shortly after opening the Apple Home app. If I wait a while it seems to disappear.

It also happens on automations though. For example I have a group of the new Hue GU5.3 spots in my entry hall which are automatically turned off after a while. In the Homebridge log I can see the following entries:

[11/12/2023, 15:04:23] [Hue] LS Flur: set homekit brightness from 100% to 0%
[11/12/2023, 15:04:27] [Hue] LS Flur: set homekit brightness from 0% to 100%

It looks like after being turned off they turn on again after four seconds which definitely isn't happening.

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Note that Brightness (or rather state/bri) does not necessarily reflect whether the light is on. Typically it goes to 0 while turning the light off, but resets to the previous value when the light has turned off.

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