Hi everyone,
I'm new to Hubitat and just trashed my Smartthings hub and replaced it with a C7. I have no need for wifi and looks like the C7 will work fine for the small amount of devices I have. I added my compatible devices with no issue, created a dashboard, and the buttons(icons) all work correctly so that is good.
While I'm certain this hub is miles away better than a Smartthings hub, with the big thing being local access, I do find some things are needlessly complex for instance:
I went into Room automation and created an automation to turn my outside light on and off. It was quick simple easy and works perfectly.
Now I want to take a few lights and create a dashboard button (icon) to turn on and off a Room Automation that changes the color of the lights. Creating and setting up the color was easy enough and I got the scene to activate somehow, so it works.
I want to add an icon (what is the proper term?) to the dashboard to turn the scene on and off. For two days I have been reading support articles, looking at posts, and playing around to no avail.
I can't believe this is so difficult when this was quick and easy in Smartthings which had a ton of other issues.
How do you simply add a dashboard icon to control a scene. If someone would be kind enough to tell me or point me to an article that is written in a way that is understandable with all the steps I would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
I see the child device, and I can control it in the device section. When I tried to add a tile I picked the child device as the device and picked scene as the template. All that did was create a blank black button that did nothing. This is the frustrating part as this should be simple as I have done many other things that are more complex with no issue.
I did download the Package Manager and will play with that after I figure out if I can ever get a Tile to control a Scene that actually works.
Thanks for all the guidance.
Other have given some good ideas.
An easy way to do this is to create a virtual switch (toggle or push button) and put that device on your dashboard. Then modify your scene (rule) to have a trigger based on the virtual switch turning on. I use virtual toggle switches for this and in the virtual switch device I set it to auto off after 2 seconds as I only want to trigger the scene once. Alternatively you could set the virtual switch to off in your scene actions but that might toggle the switch off so quickly you don't notice it was ever switched on (so add a delay just ahead of turn off).
There are other ways to do this but I find this easy enough for some of my scenes. My prior controller allowed you to put switches in a dashboard to directly run a scene without all the added complexity of the virtual switch step but, oh well it really isn't too bad and keeps my logic tidy.
THANK YOU SO MUCH...that was the ticket using button....thanks again
Thanks for the tip...I'm going to play with this method as I think I get the workflow now on how to create the Scenes....thanks
