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Fri Jun 09, 2017 1:01 am
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nsheldon
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Hi guys.
So yea, those numbers, especially scenes and sensors, can be misleading. Here's how it works...
All of those numbers are raw counts directly from the Hue hub for each category. The numbers don't always mean the Hue Lights plugin can see everything in a particular category, especially the Sensors category.
For lights, the Hue Lights plugin should be able to work with all lights that are paired with the Hue hub. If you can't create a Hue Lights device for a light on the Hub, that's something I'd need to fix and you should let me know about that.
For groups, the Hue app for iOS (and probably for Android too) creates a separate group for each room you define in the app. You can also create your own groups with 3rd party apps like Lightbow for iOS. The Hue hub, though (last I read anyway), has a limit of 16 groups. So you probably don't want to define too many of your own groups. The Hue Lights plugin should be able to see all of those groups, in addition to the default All Lights group which always exists.
For scenes, yes, that's an accurate number of scenes as reported by the Hue hub. However, that number includes all scenes created by all creating applications. A "creating application" could be the Hue app on your iPhone, another copy of the Hue app on your iPad, the Lightbow app on your iPod touch, etc. Each time you pair the Hue app with the Hue hub from a different device, the Hue app creates a bunch of Hue scenes that are separate from the scenes from your other iOS or Android devices. You can see all of those Hue scenes by creating an Indigo Action Group and selecting "Hue Lights Actions" -> "Recall Hue Scene" from the Type pop-up menu and then "All Scene Creators" from the "Scene Creator" popup menu that will appear. You'll notice that the list of scenes in the "Scenes" popup menu is long, and there are lots of duplicates. That's because every Hue app on every device creates its own copy of every scene (so each device can have their own unique set of scenes).
For sensors, the Hue hub comes preconfigured with 2 virtual sensors as soon as you set it up: "Daylight" and "HomeAway". The first is used in as a condition in schedules so you can set things to only happen at night or during the day. The second is used for the geofencing features of the Hue system. You don't have to have any actual hardware sensor paired with the hub for those to be there. So everyone with a modern Hue hub firmware will have at least those 2 sensors even if they don't actually have any hardware sensors. Also, at least with the Hue Motion Sensor, as soon as you pair it with the Hue hub, the hub automatically creates 4 different sensors for the 1 piece of hardware (motion, temperature, light level, and a virtual sensor for use with IFTTT service). So with just 1 piece of hardware, you have 4 sensors on the hub. Hue Dimmers and the Hue Tap are also sensors (though the Hue Lights plugin cannot work with those). As you can imagine, adding more hardware sensors will quickly increase the sensor count reported by the Hue Lights plugin, and that number won't match the actual number of hardware sensors.