It’s been a while since I’ve set up my red series dimmers, so now that I’m adding blue series dimmers in Hubitat I thought I should ask whether there’s a better way to do it now. In the past, I’ve paired the dimmer to hubitat, used Groups & Scenes to create a group of lights I want to control, and used the Motion Lighting app to control the lights based on motion sensors and the dimmer switch. Is that the best way to do it? I know these have some kind of scene control capability, but I’ve never used that, and the scene control section in the manual just says ‘coming soon’, so I don’t know how it works or if it’s a good fit.
If it matters, I have a mix of lights, some hue and some other, so I want to control them through hubitat and not pair the dimmer to the bulbs directly.
Groups & Scenes or the newer Room Lights app in Hubitat can be used. I never used the Motion Lighting app before, and it may have been replaced by Room Lights by now.
None of that setup really has anything to do with Inovelli specifically – I have no idea what Inovelli will eventually put in that Scene Control portion of the manual, but I don’t believe there’s any new/unique way a Blue can handle a scene/group beyond the usual direct-binding or smart-bulb-mode options. From there, the setup depends on the ecosystem you’re in (HA, HE, ST, etc)
@NeighborGeek - I recently purchased the Blue Switches for use with HE and Hue bulbs setting the switch up in Smart Bulb mode. For a while, I struggled with how to make this work (I’m smart enough to know I don’t really know a lot, and I’m not a programmer).
NOTE: I’m not sure if this will work if you have both mixed Hue and non-Hue bulbs, unless all of the bulbs you want to control will work with Smart Bulb mode (i.e. no local load control required)
Here’s what I did. I used the HE Button Controllers App to create a Button Controller for each of my switches. In the child app, I created this:
In essence, I have 2 actions each that are tied to button 1 (on/off), button 6 (raise the level/lower the level), and button 7 (When released, stop raising or lowering)
