![]() Save the scene and give it a name like “Kitchen Off”. Using the somewhat cumbersome feeling Hue v1 app, create scenes for each of your rooms and have the scene set the bulb states to off. it will give you some notifications about being old and that you should switch to the new v2 app but that’s fine, it still works. The reason is that the Hue v2 app has a much nicer UX for using Hue but it removed the ability to create off scenes replacing that notion with virtual toggle switches on each room on the Hue bridge. This sounds backward and daft but for the ability to turn off the lights, it’s important to have. I wasn’t able to find this information easily on the MiCaseVerde forums so I thought I would post it here in the hope that someones Google search turns it up for them. Tonight however, I managed to find the answer and get it working just so with a little bit of effort here and there. Compared with Hue scenes where you press it and the whole room lights up, this wasn’t great. ![]() What I quickly noticed was that when trying to use Z-Wave Scenes in Vera to operate groups of Hue bulbs, I wasn’t able to and instead had to chain up actions which had an undesired effect of each bulb turning on in order with a second or so delay between each. After getting Vera online and getting the Hue2 plugin installed and control of the bulbs, I started to struggle. I haven’t gone too overboard just yet but one of the starting factors was being able to set some coloured lighting in the living room and in the kitchen to be able to provide a bit of flashing light action for those long summer nights with a drink or two and friends.Īt Christmas, I was able to get myself a Vera Edge Z-Wave controller as I really wanted to start making better use of the Hue bulbs and integrating it with Z-Wave to setup some nice home automation scenarios. For a little while now, I have been buying Philips Hue light bulbs for home. ![]()
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