Notification triggers Phillips Wall Switch Module unprompted about hue-lights HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi vchlum - sorry for not getting back to you! You were right and it seemed that I had connected my light to my notifications by accident. I think that it was just a coincidence that it started happening when I bought the wall switch module. So basically I think there was no bug - it was just a misconfiguration by myself!

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Hi @jonathanballs ! Thank you for filing the issue. I indeed do not own the Wall Switch Module, but let's try to debug it together:-)

First, I would like to ask whether the 'Jonny's Room Light Switch' is only available in the 'Philips hue' bridge submenu as shown in the screenshot. This submenu should not control the device - this is only for disabling/enabling the whole device, and also the battery status is shown. The controlling itself should be available within the group 'Jonny's Room'. Is it there? Is it possible to control the switch at all (with this extension)?

In the title, you have mentioned that the notification triggers the switch. Please, check the settings of the extension. Go to "General settings" and check whether the 'Jonny's Room Light Switch' is checked within the 'Notification lights'. Is this related to your issue?

Anyway, please go to "Advanced settings" and enable "Log debug messages". After this, open the terminal and run the command: journalctl -f | grep -i hue, and with the command running, please try some light control. You should see something like the following line:
gnome-shell[3100]: Hue Lights (debug): Bridge GET request, url: http://192.168.1.119/api/GVTIvweTtFVt9--9FllAUdiGj1HYG9BMegQWOi0K/ data: null
Please, open the link which looks like:
http://192.168.1.119/api/GVTIvweTtFVt9--9FllAUdiGj1HYG9BMegQWOi0K/
in your local browser. You should see JSON output containing the bridge data. I see two options, you could either share all the data or please search the data and provide all sub dictionaries with the occurrence of 'Jonny's Room Light Switch' (with the path in the JSON dictionary).

I expect to see the 'Jonny's Room Light Switch' in the "sensors" section and probably in the "lights" section, and I hope I will see some hint to this issue in this data.

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Hi again! I looked into how the Philips Hue Wall Switch works, and it only pushes the bridge to turn on/off the Philips Hue bulb based on pressing the original wall switch.

From that, I think the extension can not control the Philips Hue Wall Switch. (Besides enabling/disabling it) I suppose you have selected the bulb that is controlled by your Philips Hue Wall Switch as the notification light in the settings, but the bulb should only blink on the notification. Hmm, hmm... I have no other idea yet.

It also means the 'Jonny's Room Light Switch' should be present only in the "sensors" section and not in the "lights" section of JSON output.

I am considering buying the device:-)

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