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You can do this with all4hue app. You can specify a particular app and when it shows up in your notification tray it will do a flash alert. I do this for text messaging. When I get a text through Signal, my lights will flash. Should be able to do the same thing by specifying the hangouts app.
Do you have an iPhone or Android device? I've heard good things about iConnectHue for the iPhone being able to do a lot of powerful things. Personally, I have an Android device and have gotten a lot of mileage out of all 4 hue. You can go in and mess with the rules directly and get some pretty powerful interactions.
In this case, it sounds like you'd remove the bathroom from motion sensors in the middle and bedrooms entirely through the labs. Then you can create a rule so that, detecting motion in the bedroom, you can turn off the bathroom light instantly. For the middle room, it sounds like you may want things a little more complicated. You could certainly just do the same thing (on detecting motion in the middle room, turn off the bathroom). Or you could get as complicated as you want, if you want the middle room to also turn on the bathroom long enough for you to enter it while it's still on.
I'm picturing a variable to record whether the bathroom motion detector has seen motion "recently" (15 minutes), and then using the middle room to turn on the bathroom for a minute if the bathroom hasn't seen motion recently, and at the end of that time reset the "recent" variable. Then the motion sensor for the bathroom would set the recent variable and turn it off 15 minutes later. The middle room would turn on the bathroom light if it wasn't on recently, or turn it off if it was.
Oh, yeah you are right its IOS only. Didn't see that you had an Android device. You could try All4Hue: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue&hl=en_GB
As an iPhone user i have no experience with that app though.
Good luck!
I suspect IFTTT isn't the right tool for the job for this. Not that it helps you but iConnectHue on iOS can do this, in which case I assume an equivalent Android app should be able to do it too. If Hue Pro doesn't offer the functionality have you tried All4Hue?
The hardware has the capability. You can program it with third party apps.
You can select different scenes with any kind of light or group selection for all four buttons. You can distinguish between 4 different states - press, hold, second press, second hold - for each button, technically giving you 16 different button options. And you can cycle through scenes on every button, giving you unlimited options.
You'll have to get a third party app to set this up, and is really a bit cumbersome. Here's a tutorial for iOS, you can do it on Android with the Rule Wizard function in the all 4 hue app. Not sure if there's currently a desktop option.
Either way, if you're willing to set it up once, the dimming switch can be a pretty awesome controller.
all 4 hue > Menu > Rules > Click on some trigger on rule (e.g. for me I've got a custom rule which I title "Motion sensor studio on") > Edit ...
Actions > (e.g.) "Studio Desk Turn on", click this > Edit ...
"Fading time. Time duration in tenth of a second for fading. Default value is 4, i.e. 0.4 seconds". Set as desired.
In practice I've left it at the default. From my memory I think I had initial desires as you did, to remove all lag, but found that the aesthetics of the small lag between trigger and response to be either positive or not worth bothering to change.
I'll be curious to learn if you think it is a clear positive in your case.
It's running Android 10, but going to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue on any device shows it's missing.
all 4 hue is the closest Android equivalent, with a huge amount of power (and corresponding complexity). It looks to me like that's a built-in feature, in the Rule Wizard.
Edited to add: Actually, it looks like there's a Hue Lab that does exactly what you want: http://labs.meethue.com/formulas/huelabs/timed-off
Yes, it's listed here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue&hl=en
I wonder if that particular feature relies on the Android app running all the time? Or if, once programmed, it works on the Hue Tap independently? Hopefully the latter. My only Android device is a small tablet I rarely use.
Is the all4hue that everyone talks about this one?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue
All4Hue can do it, not sure what else though as I'm an iOS person.
Need to update a rule in their api: http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/easy-dimmer-switch-enhancement-button-long-press
Not sure which apps support modifying rules in a reasonable way w/o using the api yet. Based on this post: http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/reprogramming-hue-dimmer-switch It looks like this app does for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue&hl=en
Take a look at this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue Im using it for several different switches and its really useful.
You can't do this in the Hue App, but you can in third party apps. Specifically, I use all 4 hue on Android, but there is a similar app for iOS.
In all 4 hue you would go to Accessories, find the Hue Dimmer Switch you want to modify, and hit Show Usages. This will bring up a list of all the rules (a bit like routines) associated with that dimmer. The rules made by the Hue app don't have meaningful names (just a number). So you'll have to go through each one by selecting it and hitting Edit, to find the one that has a Condition of "Button 4 pressed" (i.e. the Off button on the dimmer). Then in the Action section it will currently have the action to turn off the lights. Hit New Action to add an additional action, and Brightness, Set Brightness, 1%. Save it. Optionally add another Action to change the colour to something sane - red is actually a good one to briefly change to make any flash less visible, but whatever works for you. Drag the Actions around to make them happen in a sensible order (i.e. brightness and colour change before switching off). Save everything. Enjoy!
On a related note, if you feel brave and are a heavy user of Hue, you can program all of your Hue devices / switches to do exactly what you want, usually using FAR less rules than the default Hue app. For example, Hue Labs has a thing so that when you turn your lights on they will turn on at a different colour temperature depending on the time of day (e.g. warmer at night, colder in the morning). For some reason these use millions of rules (I forget the exact number, but it's something a lot anyway, like 20). Programming the same thing yourself will take 1 rule for each time slot you want... e.g. 4. It's a great way of saving Rules if you're running low.
I've also programmed my dimmers to do things like turn on a nightlight (red 1%) in the kid's bedroom if I long-press Off, or cycle through different colours that they like. I also have a long-press of the off button at the bottom of my stairs to turn off all the downstairs lights.
The Android “equivalent” of iConnectHue is All4Hue, maybe worth checking out
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue&hl=en_US
A scene can have a transition time built into it, so that it fades in over a set amount of time. The official Hue app doesn't support setting it, but if there is one set, then it absolutely supports using the one that's there. So what you'd need to do is create a scene with the lights in the final state you want them in when they're fully faded in, and then edit it to add the transition time. all4hue is a paid Android app that can edit scenes to add a transition time. You could also use WinHue, which is free and runs on Windows, although I think it currently has a bug with setting transition time. Or personally I'd use Hue Debugger UI, which is really low level (also free, also Windows).
In any case, the transition time is set in deciseconds, ie, tenths of a second. So if you want 10 minutes, you'd need to set it to 6000 tenths of a second. If you're using Hue Debugger UI, you'd first get that set up (I don't remember how, but I think it was pretty simple, and involved hitting the button on the hub). Then go to the Scenes tab and find the scene you want in the list. You may need to maximize the window to see the names properly. Once you've found your scene, find the "lightstates" section. Then, for each light (identified by its id number), hit the "+" icon after the "{" at the end of the line (so, the line is something like "6" : {, then some buttons, copy, add, and delete).
The attribute you're adding is "transitiontime". If you do it right, you'll get a new attribute with that mapping to "NULL", in the list with "on", "bri", etc. Then click the edit button (the pencil) next to the NULL, and type your desired time (6000), and then click the lower green checkmark, the one next to "int 6000", not the upper one. Yeah, it's a little confusing.
If you do it right, you'll now have a fancier scene. When activated, the lights will spend 10 minutes transitioning from whatever state they were already in to whatever this scene demands, but it's still a normal scene, and you can activate it like any other scene (including from Google Home, or anything else that can activate a scene). Personally, I have one named Sunrise in each of my rooms, which goes to my nice daylight color. For best results, I've found I like to start by activating Nightlight manually, and then Sunrise. Otherwise, it turns on the lights starting as dim as possible, but already at the color/color temperature that's set in the Sunrise scene, which feels really cold at low brightness. So I start with the really red/dim Nightlight, and then fade in to my bluer/brighter Sunrise, giving a really nice effect. But that's all personal preference.
Possible with all4hue
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue
I found this : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue&hl=en going to try it.
Need to update a rule in their api: http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/easy-dimmer-switch-enhancement-button-long-press Not sure which apps support modifying rules in a reasonable way w/o using the api yet. Based on this post: http://www.developers.meethue.com/content/reprogramming-hue-dimmer-switch It looks like this app does for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue&hl=en
Yep - I was wrong. I thought "all 4 hue" was the same. Sorry. So it's an iOS only thing now.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.renewahl.all4hue