Posts made by Emil

You can set up multiple hubs if you want. There is nothing that stops you from doing so. You can pair the same button to multiple hubs. The button will simply connect to the first hub that it can reach when pressed.

@phiche the intention is that Matter would be the savior here, but the adoption of that protocol as well as the release of the Matter specification 1.0 have unfortunately been heavily delayed. Two years ago, we assumed most devices should have implemented Matter at the end of 2023.

It seems that Feit have in their plans to support Matter according to https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/5/23292476/lifx-smart-lighting-feit-electric-new-products. When they are done (and we too), the Twist should be able to control their lights.

Homekit for Flic Twist is unfortunately currently not an option for us to implement, since Homekit does not support rotational devices as input devices.

@dustingtorres Yes! It is one of the priorities we have currently.

@th-zuberer For the smoothest experience we suggest to use our LAN integrations which will deliver lowest latency such as Sonos.

You can however use Alexa as well using the Advanced Dimming or Scene Blender feature. See

. In this case, an Alexa routine will be triggered once the twist is moved to a certain position.

We are working on making the positions more dense.

@av303 We found a bug in our hub firmware that occurred whenever the Sonos is updated due to the way it disconnects the flic hub. This should be fixed in our latest hub firmware 4.2.14.

@leo is it eduroam? Is it username/password based or certificate based?

@mark-arce For your second paragraph, doesn't Selector mode solve this? Then you push-twist to a desired setting and then twist (without pushing) to control it.

@balucanb The Hub mini has "mini" in its name for a reason. It has a significantly smaller footprint and a completely different software architecture which unfortunately means the hub sdk, as it is currently implemented, cannot run on the Hub mini. If you want to use our hub sdk, simply use the Hub LR instead.

However, it's not that we have abandoned the idea of having a hub sdk on the Hub mini as well (since it would be very cool), but that would require more or less a total rewrite of it and we have more urgent priorities right now (see https://community.flic.io/topic/18311/flic-twist-not-what-i-was-hoping-for).

@almightyyoshi Since there are so many different triggers with Twist, you should use IFTTT "tags". You create a tag in the IFTTT provider in the Flic app, when connected to the hub. When you add your IFTTT actions, specify the tag you want to use and save. You should then be able to see this tag on IFTTT's website when creating a recipe.

The Philips Hue hub is discovered using mDNS on the local network.

Some debugging tips:
I guess you tried power cycle also the Philips Hue hub?
Try if the Hue hub can be found using our Android and iOS apps, without being connected to a Flic hub. That should help figure out if the problem is with the network connectivity on the Hue hub or the Flic hub.
You can for example use the app Service Browser https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.druk.servicebrowser to see if the Hue hub can be discovered on the network (look for _hue._tcp).

@trdn89 Sending IR signals for volume is a bit incompatible with what we designed Flic Twist. You move the Twist to a specific position, so the LEDs light up the "percentage" of whatever parameter you are controlling (brightness/volume etc.).

All IR receivers I know instead works by receiving "volume up"/"volume down" commands and there is usually no command "set volume to x%". Since there is no feedback from the TV (or whatever you are controlling), we don't know the current volume of the TV and can't update the LEDs accordingly, or know if we have sent the correct amount of "volume up" commands.

That said, if your TV actually has IR commands such as "set volume to 50%", then this is actually supported with Flic Twist if you use "Advanced dimming". Simply assign an IR action to each step, with an IR command where you have recorded the corresponding signal. When the twist is moved to the corresponding step, the action will be triggered.

@gregorysinclair Homekit can control dimmABLE lights but does not support dimmERS as input devices, i.e. you cannot pair a dimmer (such as a wireless rotational device) and configure it to dim some specific light.

@bradyduga Nothing should have been changed. If you could try another phone, that would be good. Otherwise, it would be nice if you could show a hci log of the Android device (see e.g. https://medium.com/@charlie.d.anderson/how-to-get-the-bluetooth-host-controller-interface-logs-from-a-modern-android-phone-d23bde00b9fa) that shows the connection failure process.

@benjamin-0 ok maybe something is broken with the hub mini then. Send a message at https://flic.io/support to our support team and they can help you out. You can include a link to this post.

@benjamin-0 Do you possibly have a lot of Bluetooth connections on your phone active, like 10 paired Flic buttons or so?

@benjamin-0 Does the LED on the hub mini turn green/yellow at any point when you try connect to it? Have you ever been able to connect to the hub before or is this the first time? Have you tried another phone? Have you tried toggling Bluetooth on/off on your phone and have you tried to reboot either the phone or hub?

So the Flic "action engine" or whatever it could be called, i.e. the piece of software that communicates with buttons (and twists if supported) and performs a configured set of actions when a button is pressed currently have four different implementations: Android app, iOS app, Flic Hub and Mac app.

However, the Android app and iOS app also contains a UI client for the Flic Hub so that it can be configured. Currently, the Mac app cannot be used to configure a Flic Hub.

Where/how do you suggest we can communicate this better to our users? Feel free to give links or something where the info needs to be better. We try to make it clear on our website and in other sales material but due to all the different combinations of setups that are now possible since the new Hub Mini and Twist, it is possible that we can have missed or been unclear at some places.

@seth_flic Our Flic Twist page https://flic.io/twist says "A Flic Hub is necessary to use Flic Twist".

I will take your feedback and tell our marketing team to update the website also for the mac app https://flic.io/applications/mac-app to make it more clear that it currently only supports the buttons.

@protagonyst Yes! They write on their website that they will support Matter soon. When both they and we are done with Matter implementation, we will be able to control their shades (using a flic hub between between the twist and the shades).

@seth_flic We already check the firmware automatically once every 24 hours and update it if a new version is available.

The "Ready to install" message indicates that it the hub has internet and therefore can install (if there is a firmware update available).

We have made a few iterations of this UI but apparently it's still not 100% good. We would like to avoid making an internet request to check if a firmware is available every time the settings UI is opened. If you have a better idea of how the UI should look like that does not involve making an internet request before actually starting the update, let us know.