Philips Hue rate limiting about homebridge HOT 7 CLOSED

I can't wait for this PR! :)

Are you also considering supporting Hue Groups?

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I will try to get around to this today or tomorrow.

I'm not sure what would be required to represent Hue groups in HomeKit. I think the easiest solution would be to manually create zones in the insteon+ app. If there is some way push zones to HomeKit I will look into adding it.

It would also be great if Hue scenes could be synced to HomeKit scenes somehow. I think this would require some more structure around the setup process to allow for merging scenes from platforms to existing HomeKit scenes.

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I think the challenge is that Hue sees scenes / groups as “devices” as far as HomeKit is concerned. HomeKit’s scenes / zones are just logical groupings of accessories, services, and characteristics.

We’d likely need to create a “group device” for each of up to 16 groups in Hue and map them back to HomeKit...

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I think you're right that we would need to create a "group device" right now. I'm not sure that is something we should do because it isn't the HomeKit way of doing things. A better solution to that problem might be an iOS app to import groups/scenes into HomeKit from homebridge platforms through some kind of API.

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Is there any way to create a workaround that implement a delay between the command communication the the hue bridge? This may will "solve" the issue. When i try to turn off all my 14 Hue devices at once with siri, 3 of them didn't change the state.

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Does the hue API allow for a single "batch" of changes at once? I can think of two solutions to this problem:

1. New HAP-NodeJS API for handling "batch set" of characteristic changes
2. New helper function to wait until next runloop and accumulate changes ourself

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Well, regarding the API i just found olny the follwing:

"How many commands you can send per second?

You can send commands to the lights too fast. If you stay roughly around 10 commands per second to the /lights resource as maximum you should be fine. For /groups commands you should keep to a maximum of 1 per second."

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