I have added a Hue motion sensor with the Hue app (zigbee) and using matter. I noticed that when creating an (advanced) flow, the sensor added with zigbee is showing me 2 options in a THEN card which the sensor added with matter does not show.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Which options? Which cards?
Those cards don’t make sense (how can you turn on a motion sensor from Homey?).
Did you add the sensors as generic Zigbee, or with the “Hue, without the bridge” app?
I added them using : Philips Hue App voor Homey | Homey
Well, like I said, those cards don’t make sense anyway.
Using the Hue-with-bridge app you can switch a motion sensor on or off (like it’s possible with Hue mobile app, too).
I think that’s a special case in the HueAPI that is not defined/possible with Matter definition.
Ah right, thanks. In that case, it’s only possible when using the Hue API I guess.
Yes, I use that also to enable or disable a motion sensor from a flow. I.e. if lights are turned on from hue switches, then I disable motion sensor until the lights are turned off again.
Shame if it missing from the matter device, means that some extra logic needs to be added.
We’re a year along and I recently switched to Hue via Matter, but it’s ridiculous, that the sensor is not visible using a ‘then’ card… Off course I can use magic to ignore the sensor in another way, but turning it on and off is so much easier.
Turning off sensors isn’t supported by Matter, it’s simply not part of the protocol. And it probably never will be because it doesn’t make sense.
I have a different opinion. Like when a curtain is moving, because it’s closed and there’s a draft, I just don’t want any flow to be triggered. Off course I’ve solved it now with variables, but a simple ‘turn sensor off’ was much easier.
I understand that being able to ignore the input of a sensor makes sense, but turning off their reporting doesn’t IMO.
