Actions

All 4 hue supports the following actions for alarms, timers and rules.

Actions related to groups

The following actions are related to groups, i.e. rooms, zones and lightgroups. Actions cannot be applied to individual lights. If you want to influence a single light with an action, create a new lightgroup or zone that only contains the light you want and select this lightgroup.

Switch lights

Turn a group on or off.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Set color

Set the color of a group.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Change color

Change the color of a group. The change in color must be specified in the X and Y parameters according to the CIE color model.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Set color temperature

Set the color temperature of a group.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Change color temperature

Change the color temperature of a group. The change in color temperature must be specified in Kelvin.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Flash

Allow the lights in the group to flash either once or multiple times.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Color loop

Start or stop the interal light color loop for all lights in the group.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Set brightness

Set the brightness of a group.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Change brightness

Change the brightness of a group. The change of the brightness must be specified in percent.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Actions related to scenes

The following actions are related to scenes.

Activate scene

Activate a selected scene.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Save light state in scene

The current light configurations of the lights are saved in the selected scene. The configuration of the scene is overwritten.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Actions related to accessories

The following actions are related to internal memory sensors or attached hardware.

Switch sensor

Turn a sensor on or off. If a sensor is switched off, it does not report any events, i.e. when the Hue dimmer is switched off, for example, button presses are no longer recognized.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Store value

The specified value is written to the selected memory sensor.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Store flag

The specified flag is written to the selected memory sensor.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10

Actions related to timers

The following actions are related to timers.

Start or stop timers

A timer is started or stopped. This is useful for performing another delayed action through a timer, such as resetting a memory sensor.

  • iOS
  • Mac
  • Android
  • Win10