nsheldon wrote:Hi.
Thanks for the suggestion. I won't be able to add sensor support at this time. I don't have any sensors to test with and can't justify spending money to buy test units for a plugin that doesn't generate any revenue. I could write code solely based on the Hue API, but there are lots of different options for sensors and the reliability of the plugin would be far below an acceptable level.
If you're willing to donate a sensor, I could add support for temperature and battery. Motion support would be unreliably slow though. Only really useful for security alters, not motion activating lights. This is due to limitations of the Hue hub. It doesn't push notifications to external applications like the Hue Lights plugin when sensor states change, so each application has to constantly ask the hub about the status of every sensor. This is like hitting the Refresh button on your web browser over and over again to see if something changed. If you do it too fast, the hub stops responding.
That makes sense, if we can capture temperature and battery levels every ten minutes that would be great.
I am more than prepared to donate a sensor to you for this.
I'll PM you and get your address and get a delivery arranged from Amazon
Really appreciate your work on the Hue Plugin
Mike
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