Hue tap dial switch as media player remote using Node-RED and Home Assistant (flic twist killer?)

Turning the Philips Hue Tap Dial Switch into the perfect media player remote.
In the Hue app the dial switch can only control lights, but using Home Assistant and Node-RED, I made a great automation/flow that turns the dial switch into the perfect media player remote (much better than the IKEA Symfonisk and Sonos remotes). And it still controls the lights as well. Check out the video below to see it in action.
When the volume is 0 % the music will auto-pause, and when the volume is turned up, the music will auto-play. To avoid any unpleasant surprises, the volume will always start at 8 % if you twist the dial while no music is playing. For the same reason, the maximum volume increase on a single twist is set to 9 % (percentage points).
When the remote is in "brightness mode" it will auto-revert to volume mode after 3 seconds with no adjustment.
*Please note that the dial click sounds in the video are vastly exaggerated because the camera is right next to the remote and far away from the Sonos speaker being controlled.
The Node-RED flow can be found and downloaded here:
deCONZ version: flows.nodered....
Zigbee2MQTT version: flows.nodered....
Check out my other public automations/flows here: flows.nodered....
(the single button deCONZ dimmer flow gives you the smoothest dimming possible and the single button multi-press flows gives you the fastest reacting multi-press actions)
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[@DIYtechie]

Zigbee2MQTT version of this flow can now be downloaded here: flows.nodered.org/flow/908b8dd4d4cc55f5e9c25f2e55bc518f

[@user-cy8vl4zn2m]

Great! Thank you 🙏👍

[@erbartlett]

I bought the tap dial based on this video!! It’s really a great device. I’m using Sonos in home assistant and the dial works but the buttons didn’t. Any idea on how I can get the buttons working?

[@DIYtechie]

Depends on the integration. Did you use the flow in the link?

[@erbartlett]

@@DIYtechieyep, I used your flow. I can post a link to the screenshots if that helps. The dial works beautifully! The tap buttons just don’t register anything at all. Using Deconz / Conbee II / Sonos integration

[@erbartlett]

@@DIYtechie I tried to send you a link to a screenshot of the flow, but KZbin keeps blocking it.

[@DIYtechie]

As discussed elsewhere, the solution is to set output payload to “button event” instead of “complete payload” for the ZHASwitch. Happy you got it working 😊👍🏻

[@nghtrdr]

Awsome, well done

[@wise3p460]

Hello thanks for your flow. Possible adding a possibility for a double clic, triple clic?

[@DIYtechie]

If you add a debug node to the ZHASwitch node and double press any of the buttons you should see what events are sent (1002, 2003 etc). Simply add that number to the “sort input” switch node. I recently switched to Zigbee2MQTT so won’t be updating my deCONZ flows. But they should all still work perfectly.

[@wise3p460]

​​@@DIYtechieperfect I m on zigbee2mqtt and not deconz :-) I adapt your flow with many chance because I m a newbee :-) At this point I can use your flow for control music(play pause(3),previous track(1),next track(2), change source(4 hold), volume with dial), light (4) then if I dial after press 4 -> increase or decrease brightness.if I press (2 hold) -> then dial left right -> change température light. There are again some bug... Want to find a way of double clic triple clic. Also if for example some button press in an order between a time defined (4 4 then 1 for example) then a contexte variable is send then if dial left or right leading to an output of the switch.. I read this is possible with trigger delaycand a function of debounce but it s to much complicated for my knowledge :-( For the control of température I arrive with help of chatgpt :-( If I can share my flow to you, but don t know how. Don t hesitate Again thanks for this flow which is GENIAL :-) and happy you pass to z2m :-) Impatient reading you

[@rmckrick3261]

genius !! many thanks 😀

[@janstergaard703]

Altså jamen ffs. Nu bliver jeg jo nødt til at købe endnu en smart dims. :)

[@DIYtechie]

Sorry 😅

[@janstergaard703]

@@DIYtechie Det må du nok sige, havde lige overset du ikke brugte ZHA... Men nu den i hus, så bordet binder. Men så må jeg jo bare dykke ned og bliver klogere på det også, det jo dejligt nørderi sådan noget. Men flot arbejde og ikke mindst præsentation!

[@valarie1990]

@@janstergaard703 hi i have made it working with zha, if you want i can show it to you

[@DCJona]

wonderfull !

[@wise3p460]

Hello, wonderfull. I try to convert From Deconz To Mqtt but i don't be able to do this because i'm a newbie. Possible having help? Tks

[@user-pq2wk2fq6r]

I also would be interested for a how to convert one to the other.

[@DIYtechie]

I actually switched to Zigbee2MQTT recently, so will be sharing an mqtt-version soon 😊🙌

[@wise3p460]

@@DIYtechie Hello DIYtechnie. Have you got an idea when you share your mqtt-version? :-) I broke my key "F5" as i multiple Refresh my screen many time by day 🙂 I imagine it takes many time to update all info in your blog. Hope you read soon :-) I follow to spend my evening searching all info 🙂

[@DIYtechie]

@@wise3p460 Busy with work, so can’t say when exactly, but I will try to respond to this comment when I share it, so you are notified.

[@wise3p460]

@@DIYtechie Thanks a lot, i understand. Good work to you :-)