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incrementBrightness on Groups gone now? This used to be a thing... #380
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Here's @Foddy mentioning
decrementBrightnessbeing available for Groups: #141 (comment)Nothing? This is a pretty crippling change for using Hue Magic with dimmer switches. I don't think I'll ever be able to upgrade from v3 without this.
Asking again here, as this is a gigantic change to how Hue Magic works, and given that it stills in the mentions of functionality (#141 (comment)) , I'm feeling like this is a mistaken removal or bug.
Same here .. I want to do build a bridge between KNX and hue. In this scope I have already implemented the scene selection .. now I want to be able to dimm a scene or group in a relative way but this does not work!
My next step is to help myself by checking the old code .. maybe it's possible to see how it is done there and replicate it somehow.
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on Aug 16, 2026 @peterbaker thanks for reporting this, and sorry that it took me such an absurd amount of time to get back to you :S
@fjulian79 – this hit you as well.
HueMagic still resolved groups over the old API and expected every group to carry a legacy identifier. Newer bridge firmwares stopped handing that out for a lot of rooms and zones, so the lookup came back empty – and you got "The group is not yet available" even though the group itself was perfectly fine. Third party devices behind a group made it worse, because a missing service could send the resolution into recursion.
The whole "Hue Group" node now runs on the CLIP/v2
grouped_lightservice. Rooms, zones and third party devices are found again,incrementBrightness/decrementBrightnessare back, and the group finally reports brightness and colour as well.This is fixed as of v5.0.0, now available on npm.
Describe the bug
After upgrading Hue Magic to v4, none of my dimming switches work on groups anymore.
incrementBrightnessis no longer recognized, or mentioned in the README. There's no mention of it's removal, what gives? Are we really meant to brighten individual lights? That's a nightmare.Expected behavior
The same
incrementBrightnessanddecrementBrightnessoptions in Hue Lights used to be and should be available for Hue Groups.Please complete the following information:
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