Need help with first hue automation | Home Assistant | Page 1

fast marsh Dec 20, 2025, 2:56 PM

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Hi all, new to ha, and trying to migrate a few options from Hue to home assistant. I added all my Hue stuff at once, adding the hub (still have it running).
I have a hue dimmer. I’m using the gui for the automation.
I want to turn on 3 lights in de Woonkamer when pressing the on/off button (top) on the dimmer, specific the Honolulu scene from hue.
This works. See image 1.

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But I also want to turn off all lights in de woonkamer, if I press the on/off button again, when they are already on. Can’t seem to make this work. If I add this second automation, the lights go on, and off directly. So something is off.
See pic 2/3.

fiery thicket Dec 20, 2025, 3:48 PM

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Please share the YAML of your automation, it will make it easier to understand what you're doing

barren acornBOT Dec 20, 2025, 3:48 PM

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fiery thicket Dec 20, 2025, 3:49 PM

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Whoops, I meant

barren acornBOT Dec 20, 2025, 3:49 PM

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fast marsh Dec 21, 2025, 9:17 AM

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So i have got it work, kinda.
The hue dimmer has 4 button. Top (first on and off), second is the Plus (+), third is the Minus (-) and fourth is the Hue Button.
I have made an automation turning on the Woonkamer Lights, using the Honolulu Scene:

alias: HonoluluOnWoonkamer
description: ""
triggers:
  - device_id: 14a1e087c87ffca8264ff47db8ed1f23
    domain: hue
    type: initial_press
    subtype: 1
    unique_id: d5199f64-3dd8-459b-88a0-64b93a434df2
    trigger: device
conditions:
  - condition: device
    type: is_off
    device_id: 1ad5c2b84e27381da444e6334d4bc672
    entity_id: 6058da0897486f2f3d99f5182bb26c06
    domain: light
actions:
  - action: hue.activate_scene
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: scene.woonkamer_honolulu
    data: {}
mode: single

Second is turning off the scene, repressing the on/off button:

alias: HonoluluOff
description: ""
triggers:
  - device_id: 14a1e087c87ffca8264ff47db8ed1f23
    domain: hue
    type: initial_press
    subtype: 1
    unique_id: d5199f64-3dd8-459b-88a0-64b93a434df2
    trigger: device
conditions:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: 1ad5c2b84e27381da444e6334d4bc672
    entity_id: 6058da0897486f2f3d99f5182bb26c06
    domain: light
actions:
  - type: turn_off
    device_id: 1ad5c2b84e27381da444e6334d4bc672
    entity_id: 6058da0897486f2f3d99f5182bb26c06
    domain: light
mode: single

Then i added the Plus and Minus brightness, this also works:

alias: WoonkamerBrightnessHoger
description: ""
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id:
      - event.hue_dimmer_switch_1_button_2
    attribute: event_type
conditions:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: 1ad5c2b84e27381da444e6334d4bc672
    entity_id: 6058da0897486f2f3d99f5182bb26c06
    domain: light
actions:
  - device_id: 1ad5c2b84e27381da444e6334d4bc672
    domain: light
    entity_id: 6058da0897486f2f3d99f5182bb26c06
    type: brightness_increase
mode: single

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So far so good, but now i want to change the scenes, pressing the on and off button, holding it, or smething like that. Directly using Hue, if a quickyl press on/off and the Lights are on, it changes to other scenes. But i cant get this to work.
If i long press on/off button, the light also goes off. I dont want to this happen. In the end i would like to add a few scenes, but for now i just want to switch to the hue scene "Lezen".
This i what i have now, but this doesnt work, because it also sets the light to Off if i long press the on/off button.

alias: SwitchScenesWoonkamerLampen
description: ""
triggers:
  - device_id: 14a1e087c87ffca8264ff47db8ed1f23
    domain: hue
    type: repeat
    subtype: 1
    unique_id: d5199f64-3dd8-459b-88a0-64b93a434df2
    trigger: device
conditions:
  - condition: device
    type: is_on
    device_id: 1ad5c2b84e27381da444e6334d4bc672
    entity_id: 6058da0897486f2f3d99f5182bb26c06
    domain: light
actions:
  - action: scene.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    target:
      entity_id: scene.woonkamer_lezen
    data: {}
mode: single

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If i long press the on/off button, the light go off (triggering automation HonoluluOff)and then i see in the gui of home assistant, that the SwitchScenesWoonkamperLampen is triggered, but it doesnt work, because the light are off already.

#Need help with first hue automation