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Following this guide I am trying to get the temperature from a philips hue motion sensor, but I am getting the following error:
measure_temperature InvalidTypeError: [null] is of type string but expected number (invalid_type)
Any ideas?
Can you share a screenshot of you flow?
It looks as if the value of the hue capability is null, which is not allowed as number-argument-value.
I tried a few different things, and I think I got it working, the flow looks like this now:
However, the idea with this is to be able to ask GH about the temperature, and when I tried first time after making this flow, it told me that the sensor is turned off.
I then clicked on the virtual sensor and set a temperature “20C” and it now tells me that the temp is set to 20C and that the actual temperature is 21.5.
However, the actual temperature when I click on the Hue motion sensor shows 22.1C not 21.5, so not really sure what is going on there?
Also do I have to set a temperature manually like in this example, for GH to understand that the sensor is on?
That trigger will only trigger when it goes from under -10 degrees to above, not every time the temperature changes, you’ll need to use the “temperature changed” trigger for that.
Trying to configure a sensor for the living room, but I am unable to get any readings at all.
What am I doing wrong?
What do you mean with:
?
First of all, please add notification / log cards to flows which won’t do what you expect. Then you can trace what worked or not.
Second, make sure your virtual device has a “measure_temperature” capability, otherwise it won’t work
Because in case you selected an other type of capability, it is like you want to set the, say, humidity of a light. That won’t work either.
In case you’ve added a virtual thermostat instead, you also have to tick the “measure temperature” box to get it to work
(Note you can’t edit a VD, so you’ll have to create a new one)
I made a test VD and a test flow;
As you can see, the top flow is like yours,
but the bottom flow is to send a manually entered number, just purely to check if this measure_temperature I entered will accept a value or not.
I’m pretty sure the issue here is, you didn’t select the “measure_temperature” capability when you created that VD.
I hope this helps you further with the VD’s
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The issue above made me think of a feature request:
The ‘Measure temperature’ box isn’t ticked when a virtual thermostat is created, only ‘Target temperature’; Shouldn’t that box be ticked by default?
While most thermostats have a settable temperature ánd a temperature sensor?
(made a ticket for it)
Before i posted, i looked at how a VD would look of not selected the measure_target during creation.
Since his image has a Actual Temperatur with a dash above it, i actually think he did select measure temperature.
Lets see his response 
