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I don't have a coffee maker, but I just tried this with my Philips Hue lights and it was able to get the right state even after I turned the lights off manually

I don't have a coffee maker, but I just tried this with my Philips Hue lights and it was able to get the right state even after I turned the lights off manually through the Hue app.

cbhl 9y ago
Try: 1) turn off a light in the app 2) physically disconnect and reconnect power to a light (e.g. unplug and plug in) 3) note that light is on by default (at least for Hue lightstrips, not sure about others) 4) note that you cannot turn the light off without turning it on in the app
- vmarsy 9y ago
  3) is true with all hue lights, so that you can easily override using the good old physical switches. However, are you sure about 4? I had power outages sometimes, when the power comes back, all the hue lights gets on (Not cool when it's 4 am by the way), but then I'd just press "Off" on my hue light app and they'd all turn off. If I remember the Hue API, you can send a new state to the lights not matter what the previous state was, so I'm not surprised this works correctly, which is why I'm confused about your step 4). Are you trying to turn them off via a Echo command specifically?
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    I'm using my own CLI script to control Hue lights[0] and I confirm that you can set the state of your lights directly, without referring to or even knowing the previous one. The API is pretty straightforward. I suspect that even the vanilla Hue app on Android does that - given the way I often manage to switch the lights before the app UI figures out what's their current state. -- [0] - https://github.com/TeMPOraL/hju https://github.com/TeMPOraL/hju
- op00to 9y ago
  This is not true with my Hue light bulbs on iOS. I can do those steps and turn the bulb off in both the Hue app as well as via HomeKit.
- jpindar 9y ago
  3) is the desired behavior. 4) is not true, I just tested it. If I leave the app open it does take a few seconds to sync. If I close the app and reopen it, it displays the correct status. This is using the official Phillips app. Some other apps may not read the status, but they clearly could.

I don't have a coffee maker, but I just tried this with my Philips Hue lights and it was able to get the right state even after I turned the lights off manually through the Hue app.

cbhl 9y ago

Try: 1) turn off a light in the app 2) physically disconnect and reconnect power to a light (e.g. unplug and plug in) 3) note that light is on by default (at least for Hue lightstrips, not sure about others) 4) note that you cannot turn the light off without turning it on in the app

vmarsy 9y ago
3) is true with all hue lights, so that you can easily override using the good old physical switches. However, are you sure about 4? I had power outages sometimes, when the power comes back, all the hue lights gets on (Not cool when it's 4 am by the way), but then I'd just press "Off" on my hue light app and they'd all turn off. If I remember the Hue API, you can send a new state to the lights not matter what the previous state was, so I'm not surprised this works correctly, which is why I'm confused about your step 4). Are you trying to turn them off via a Echo command specifically?
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  I'm using my own CLI script to control Hue lights[0] and I confirm that you can set the state of your lights directly, without referring to or even knowing the previous one. The API is pretty straightforward. I suspect that even the vanilla Hue app on Android does that - given the way I often manage to switch the lights before the app UI figures out what's their current state. -- [0] - https://github.com/TeMPOraL/hju https://github.com/TeMPOraL/hju
op00to 9y ago
This is not true with my Hue light bulbs on iOS. I can do those steps and turn the bulb off in both the Hue app as well as via HomeKit.
jpindar 9y ago
3) is the desired behavior. 4) is not true, I just tested it. If I leave the app open it does take a few seconds to sync. If I close the app and reopen it, it displays the correct status. This is using the official Phillips app. Some other apps may not read the status, but they clearly could.