Philips Hue Integration: Record when Scene is Selected

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Integration name

Philips Hue

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/hue/

Describe the enhancement

Provide an entry in the Hue Integration Activity when a Scene is activated from within the Hue App.

Use cases

I live in a divided house. I run all of my automation in the Home Assistant App. However, others prefer to use the Hue App for it's UI and ease of use to control lights and scenes.

Is it possible to add an event in the Room/Zone when a scene is activated in the Hue App? Currently, when a scene is activated in the Hue App, nothing is logged:

However, if the scene is activated from within Home Assistant, it's logged.

I unfortunately have non Hue lights that I would like to easily trigger their state to change when a specific Hue Scene is selected. IE if the Office Scene is set to "Bright White" then set a group of Tuya lights to match.

Trying to re-create the logic in HA to look at multiple different Hue lights for their state, brightness and color is a pain (And then needs to be tweaked anytime the Hue Scene has been updated).

I'm not looking for any sort of Persistence in HA to track that the Hue lights are on a specific Scene, but just the entry in Activity that a Scene was selected from the Hue App, and then I can leverage that in other HA automations.

Anything else?

No response

[github-actions[bot]]

🏷️ I've automatically added the integration: hue label to help categorize this feature request.

[karwosts]

Similar support was recently added to other integrations, so might be possible e.g. home-assistant/core#151218

[mattwilson1024]

+1. I have the same goal (turn on a non-Hue LED strip when specific Hue scenes get activated, even if they're activated from the Hue app rather than Home Assistant).

Having an event raised by the Hue integration when scenes are activated would be really useful.

For now I have managed to achieve this by using the Hue API (not the Hue integration) and some pretty complex/custom Node-RED workflows. Not straightforward, but for any devs who are interested, what I did was:

• Registered for a Hue developer account and set up credentials on my Hue bridge to access the Hue v2 API
• On startup, make a request to the Hue API to gather details of all the scenes, rooms and zones. Store these in some globals so that they can be used later
• Make an infinite loop of HTTP requests to the SSE eventstream endpoint in order to listen for events from the Hue bridge
• Events get fired when the state of a scene changes (activated/deactivated) and also when scenes are added/removed etc. so you can patch your stored info
• I created a config object (again, stored as a global on startup) which maps Hue scenes to Home Assistant scenes (containing my non-Hue lights). In response to an event firing in the Hue API, I lookup that scene in the config object to determine which HA scenes to trigger. Hue API refers to all resources by GUIDs, so with a bit of effort you can cross reference these IDs with the room/zone IDs in order to tie everything together.

A fairly complex setup but it does work... Would be great to replace this with a much simpler automation if the suggestion gets added.

[bastelbude1]

for regular scene's I have an version which is working, here the PR: home-assistant/core#156617