Hi, All. I've been using Hubitat for over a year, and had very few issues. I noticed that initially I had used a few scene activators with Lutron devices that I have had for years. Since then, every trigger I have uses a virtual switch.
I honestly can't recall why or how I set up those scene activators. Now I'm wondering what is the difference?
Thank you!
Stephen.
Did you use a Scene from the Groups and Scenes app to create the scene activators? That sounds like what you mean, but a screenshot might help explain if not.
A virtual switch doesn't do anything at all (except simulate responses to the on/off commands) by itself, so that's a pretty big difference. You must have coupled these with a rule or some other app to perform some automation based on these events. A child device created by Groups and Scenes (or Room Lighting, its more powerful effective replacement) will control the lights or other devices you've selected in the way you've configured in the app upon "activation," with no extra automations required unless you have needs that can't be met by the app itself.
I'm honestly not sure what I did. That was when I was just getting started, and after years of other controls work I have just found virtual switches easy to use for what I'm doing. I'll go back and dig into the power of the scene activator.
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