Good to hear! I’ve got a pro bridge on order so I guess I’ll see how matter works in a few weeks myself. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Philips Hue Line Gains Bridge Pro, New Bulbs, Updated Outdoor Lights and More
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Yeah, this is the downside for me too. I only have ONE room with three lights in it so it's it's not worth the cost of upgrading the hub. I'll stick with my $5 PIR from AliExpress and Homey Pro flow.
As it turns out, the new lights can do matter over thread. You were right about the old products. This is new.
Look at this. It specifically addresses this, and it is 100% open source.
Home Assistant
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server.
www.home-assistant.io
Interesting, maybe it's a regional thing, but the Hue up/downlighters I have installed on the front of my house in the UK are 240v
You know hue and apple work together because hue is part of HomeKit and has been for years now…
Not according to the specifications listed on their website. It says the new hub can do Matter over Zigbee or wifi, but the new lights bulbs are Zigbee only.
My thoughts exactly - what obnoxious light pollution and energy waste.
Hue and Lutron have been rock solid for me as well. At another property, Govee has likewise been set-it-and-forget-it (along with more competitive pricing).
I think it is even trickier than that when the bedroom is used by two people.
1. Room is naturally lit enough: don’t do anything.
2. Room is dark, nobody is inside: turn on the light when someone enters.
3. Room is dark, someone is already inside: turn the light at 5% intensity only when someone else enters; if it is the person inside the room who is getting out… well I guess it’s anybody’s choice (turn on at full power or dimmed). Maybe depending on the time ?(I personally hate to get full light on when I wake up just to go to the toilets).
4. If the person in the room has turned off the light, of course don’t turn it back on if moving occurs only in the bed!
Etc.
And this doesn’t even account for the animals people can have too!
I think motion detectors alone are not very reliable with automations when multiple people are involved as it is easy to lose count of people movements. But a presence detector like this could do better maybe. Or am I mistaken?
Maybe using a combination of presence detectors and motion sensors?
Or am I overthinking it?
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New Pro Hub all setup, transferring the settings from the old hub to the new one was painless in the Hue app as it transferred everything over flawlessly as I only had one bridge, took about 15 to 20 mins to transfer. As expected I had to reconnect it to Apple Home again and that was a massive pain in the ass as it kept failing no matter how I tried, after trying for about the 10th time it finally paired to Apple Home somehow and so far all is working as it should over Wi-Fi and Ethernet, speed and responsiveness is the same on both connection types.
One massive improvement is the popcorn effect with matter through Apple Home, on the old bridge if I had something like six ceiling lights grouped up, they would turn off quickly, within 2 secs but one after another. With the new pro bridge it's a massive improvement as the grouped lights now go off and on almost in sync, it's now almost as fast as the old native HomeKit setup and pretty damn close as the native Hue app, you can see an ever so slight popcorn effect so it's not eliminated fully, but's a good 95% improvement over the old bridge at least.
Even just dragging your finger over the light colours in Apple Home, it's a lot more responsive and snappy when doing it to grouped lights. Really happy with the bridge so far, worth every penny and at least if Hue comes out with something that needs the new bridge, I'm good to go.
One massive improvement is the popcorn effect with matter through Apple Home, on the old bridge if I had something like six ceiling lights grouped up, they would turn off quickly, within 2 secs but one after another. With the new pro bridge it's a massive improvement as the grouped lights now go off and on almost in sync, it's now almost as fast as the old native HomeKit setup and pretty damn close as the native Hue app, you can see an ever so slight popcorn effect so it's not eliminated fully, but's a good 95% improvement over the old bridge at least.
Even just dragging your finger over the light colours in Apple Home, it's a lot more responsive and snappy when doing it to grouped lights. Really happy with the bridge so far, worth every penny and at least if Hue comes out with something that needs the new bridge, I'm good to go.
Nice! Doing mine this weekend...hope it goes just as smoothly as yours! Really hope I don't have to end up re-doing all of my Apple Home shortcuts I've created over the years.