I have a room where I want to be able to manually turn on the light switch and trigger an automation to turn on various other lights/sockets. I have achieved this using the Philips Hue ‘power on’ behaviour and then having an automation to turn on a scene when the main light is turned on.
The challenge is when the light is switched off (at the switch).
Hue does not seem to report that this light is now ‘unavailable’ and still allows control from HA (even though nothing happens). It will probably time out after a while but that is prohibitively long to trigger an automation.
I’ve trigged polling the device in Node-Red but that uses the HA state and so it still shows as ‘on’ until the timeout has elapsed.
Any ideas?
Otherwise, I’ll have to grab a no-neutral z-wave switch.
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