Import "switches" from Home Assistant?

[jritsema]

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Hello. Thank you for this very useful project! When trying to import all of my lights from Home Assistant, I noticed that it only seems to import devices of type "light" and devices of type "switch" are not imported, even though I have set diyhue: include on them in my customize.yaml. Is this intentional behavior? If so, are there any workarounds?

[mariusmotea]

Hi,

Yes, we import just the lights because we can emulate them in Hue lights, but other entities (like switches) we don't have a common Hue device in witch these can be emulated. Probably we can emulate the binary switches in Hue plugs....

[Paalap]

Hi, its possible by adjusting/editing services/homeAssistantWS.py

Original
def change_light(self, light, data): service_data = {} service_data['entity_id'] = light.protocol_cfg['entity_id'] payload = { "type": "call_service", "domain": "light", "service_data": service_data } payload["service"] = "turn_on" if 'on' in data: if not data['on']: payload["service"] = "turn_off"

my version
def change_light(self, light, data): service_data = {} service_data['entity_id'] = light.protocol_cfg['entity_id'] if light.protocol_cfg['entity_id'].startswith("light."): payload = { "type": "call_service", "domain": "light", "service_data": service_data } elif light.protocol_cfg['entity_id'].startswith("switch."): payload = { "type": "call_service", "domain": "switch", "service_data": service_data } payload["service"] = "turn_on" if 'on' in data: if not data['on']: payload["service"] = "turn_off"

And also from
def _should_include(self, ha_state): should_include = False diy_hue_flag = None entity_id = ha_state.get('entity_id', None) if entity_id.startswith("light."):

to
def _should_include(self, ha_state): should_include = False diy_hue_flag = None entity_id = ha_state.get('entity_id', None) if entity_id.startswith("light.") or entity_id.startswith("switch."):

This is working fine for me

To make it easier: https://github.com/Paalap/diyHue-1/blob/master/BridgeEmulator/services/homeAssistantWS.py

[mariusmotea]

Hi,

Please create a pull request to master branch with your changes to be more easy to follow.

[Paalap]

Done in #1018

[jritsema]

Wow, this is great! Thank you for the extremely fast turnaround 👍

Just to confirm, I can see that this code change brings switches into diyHue, but has someone verified that diyHue is enable to successfully turn them on/off?

Also, btw, in case it helps others. I got this working using the HASS "Switch as X" Helper, but with this change, I'll be able to remove all of that configuration 🎉