Daylight Sensor Disabled - How to enable?

deCONZ General Support
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Hi there,

i have tried out Home Assistant instead of the Phoscon PWA, but in the end i decided to stick with Phoscon. But now, i have a problem, the virtual daylight sensor is disabled.
Maybe because of this? (deCONZ - Home Assistant) It seems that Home Assistant disables the daylight sensor for privacy reasons.

I’m using a pi 4, conbee II, homeassistant and deconz are hosted via docker.

version: ‘3.7’

networks:
web:
external: true

services:
deconz:
image: deconzcommunity/deconz
container_name: deconz
restart: always
privileged: true
networks:
- web
ports:
- 8080:8080
- 8443:8443
volumes:
- ${USERDIR}/deconz:/opt/deCONZ
devices:
# USB Device
- /dev/ttyAMA0
environment:
- TZ=${TZ}
- DECONZ_WEB_PORT=8080
- DECONZ_WS_PORT=8443
- DEBUG_INFO=1
- DEBUG_APS=0
- DEBUG_ZCL=0
- DEBUG_ZDP=0
- DEBUG_OTAU=0
- DECONZ_UID=1000
- DECONZ_GID=1000
security_opt:
- no-new-privileges:true

I have already tried to change the sensor values via the REST-Api, without success.
This is the current state of the sensor:

               {

“config”: {
“configured”: false,
“on”: true,
“sunriseoffset”: 30,
“sunsetoffset”: -30
},
“etag”: “33f82a52e3156b86001cf58444de5437”,
“manufacturername”: “Philips”,
“modelid”: “PHDL00”,
“name”: “Daylight”,
“state”: {
“dark”: null,
“daylight”: null,
“lastupdated”: “none”,
“status”: null
},
“swversion”: “1.0”,
“type”: “Daylight”,
“uniqueid”: null
}

i tried this command:

PUT http://pi-ip:8080/api/Api-Key/sensors/1/config
{
“configured”: true
}

Response:

[{
“error”: {
“address”: “/sensors/1/config/configured”,
“description”: “Could not set attribute”,
“type”: 608
}
}]

Thank you already in advance!

2

For the daylight sensor to work the longitude and latitude need to be configured. Usually this happens automatically but can be done via REST call as well, Sensors - deCONZ REST-API

An easier option to configure the sensor is via Hue Essentials app which has a small UI for doing this.

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Thank you very much! I just used the Hue Essentials App and was able to fix it!

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