I’ve asked about this before, so sorry in advance if I’m beating a dead horse.
But I have my upstairs all set up with scenes, open concept house, so I like adjusting all lights at once. I have a daytime, evening, and night scene (plus random color ones for fun) that mainly all use the same lights. Sometimes they are completely off or dimmed, etc.
Mainly all hue bulbs, 3 on lutron switches and a sylvania light strip.
My problem is when I ask Alexa, use SharpTools tablet, or use pico remotes, the result is the same, a very slow transition.
I was told because of the hue api speed that I can’t change this, but wanted to check again if there is something I can do?
If I use Apple home bridge everything is instant (not the same scenes but just tried similar things).
Sorry if this is long winded and doesn’t make sense, but just would love a way to speed this up and avoid using homebridge.
I love my SharpTools setup on the tablet so would like to just be able to hit whatever scene I want there, pico remote, or Alexa.
Please let me know if you need anymore info or have any advice I could try.
For my groups that are hue bulbs, I use CoCoHue and have my scenes configured in Hue.
For Alexa, I have most of the routines use the hue scenes (via the Hue integration).
Well, I don't have Lutron switches in the mix, but in my kitchen I have 7 hue lights, 2 Hue light strips, 3 Sylvania high output RGBW recessed lights, and a Sylvania Flex XL light strip. When I adjust it or turn it on/off, everything occurs within 1 second. I deleted my Hue to Alexa integration and everything connects to Alexa through HE. I also use CoCoHue because with that I am able to use the Hue groups and scenes. This means that I can create the scenes on Hue, which stores them on each actual bulb from what I understand. This also lets me take advantage of Zigbee Group Messaging on Hue by using Hue groups if I want to use an Alexa command to change them to something else. I mostly just import groups into Alexa, and from Hue to HE, not individual bulbs, to avoid causing too much traffic on either the Hue bridge, or HE hub. I then use the scenes created on Hue and add them to Hubitat scenes with my Sylvania lights. This is by far the busiest room in the house, with 4 kids, and the bulbs never fail.
BTW: Apple Home will always be faster than Alexa because it is local.
You can create scenes in the Hue app with your Hue lights.
You can import the Hue scenes into Hubitat using CoCoHue.
You can then create scenes with Hubitat and select the Hue scene under “select switches” instead of selecting the Hue lights.
The switch is a Hue scene and the Kitchen can lights are my recessed Sylvania lights on Hubitat.
Once this is setup you can use the scene on a dashboard, button controller app, or motion lighting app.
