New User - Slow Response Times?

[lenbarton]

Hi. I'm a new user to HomeSeer & JowiHue, moving from Hubitat.

I have a number of Hue lights and dimmer switches setup in my Hue hub. I have connected the hub using JowiHue and can see all my devices as expected.

I have tried to setup my first dimmer switch using If/Then rules, however the response time seems painfully slow. Is this due to the 3 second poll time of the plugin? When the Hue dimmers are connected directly to the Hue hub the On/Off/Dim is instant. Is there a best practice around this? Am I missing something?

[w.vuyk]

You are not missing something here. The Philips Hue bridges do not communicate directly to other programs, so these have to poll the bridge to check if something changed. So a sensor will show a delayed response, depending on your setting for the poll.

If you want to work with switches and sensors I do recommend to use deCONZ with a Conbee/Rasbee device. deCONZ is using a websocket for its communication, response is immediate for these devices.

Wim

[lenbarton]

Thanks Wim

DOes deCONZ/Conbee work with HomeSeer HomeTroller Pi Smart Home Hub G2 do you know?

[w.vuyk]

I am not sure on that. The raspbee is running on a raspberry pi, not sure if it lets add the raspbee card. I know in the past users had an issue with that and added a new pi for deCONZ. But I do not know if that is still the case....

[lenbarton]

Thanks Wim, appreciate your help