is there any way to create a scene from scratch without using the capture feature? As in, specify exactly which lights should be on and off?
Ty
You can always just use Rules to make the scenes yourself. I've never used any lighting apps.
I used to use Webcore, and I made a piston for each scene, that just went through all the devices to turn on or off, and to what dim level. I had a main piston that subscribed to the motion sensors going active or inactive. When active, I would decide what scene piston to run based on the current mode, and then call that piston. I also had an all-off piston that would be called whenever the motion went inactive, that just turned everything off.
Now I'm using custom apps for scenes, but I used the Webcore scenes for a couple years and it worked well for me. It was something I brought with me from Webcorfe on SmartThings, before I even realized Hubitat has scene lighting apps.
Probably more than you are asking for, since you probably still want to use the app, so I'm just throwing that out there. There are many ways to do scene lighting. The nice thing about doing it yourself is you can add doing things with devices that are not lights, like turning on a ceiling fan or an electric fireplace to be part of your scenes.
