Hey all,
New to hubitat and loving it.
I have a philips hue bridge connect through the cocohue app and it's great.
I was however dumb and bout sengled colored bulbs thinking they'd work.. Not realizing they were the wrong zigbee protocol for hue integration. But I'd still love to be able to use philips hue scenes to control sengled bulbs.
I'm not a coder. I know how to copy and paste is there some way to relate a virtual bulb I can link to philips hue, the mirror my sengled bulb to it?
Or is there an easy way to copy a Philips hue scene into the HE scene app?
The Hue Bridge integration is one-way, Hue to Hubitat, not vice versa. There isn't an easy way to do what you want from within Hue--but you have Hubitat, which has its own concept of "scenes." You could create a Hubitat scene, and as long as you only need to activate that scene from within a Hubitat automation (including other integrations like Alexa or Google Home that can expose it), it would work. The downside is that Hue scenes are "native" Zigbee scenes and quite reliable (on-device scene table and one group broadcast that says "activate this scene"; Hubitat's scenes send one command per Hubitat device with one or more commands per device to get color, level, etc. as configured, so you might see some "popcorn effect" or unreliability, but with Hue handling the changes you should still get pretty good results).
"Easy" no, not without activating the scene, waiting for the Hue polling interval to pass (so the bulb/group states are accurate in Hubitat), and then capturing a new Hubitat scene with that information. However, at least two community Hue Bridge integrations allow activating Hue scenes from within Hubitat, unlike the stock integration (CoCoHue, which I wrote; and Hue B Smart, which I'm not sure is maintained anymore on Hubitat). But there's still no way to get a Sengled bulb in there on the Hue side; you could, however, create a Hubitat automation that responds to the scene being activated and act as desired on the Sengled at that point, or you could create a Hubitat scene that activates this Hue scene (check out the "Select button to push upon scene activation" option--the Hue scene will be a button device) while also including the Sengled at desired settings as part of the scene.
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If I went that route, how would I activate a hue scene without activating other bulbs? I can get scenes over to HE using your cocohue, but I don't know how to get a non room scene.... Unless I create a rom with no bulbs in it?
CoCoHue supports GroupScenes and LightScenes, if that is the difference you mean. But I don't think you can create a Hue scene with no lights (or groups); I was assuming they would all be mixed, with Sengled included as part of a scene with Hue bulbs. If you don't want that, sticking to just a Hubitat scene should be fine aside from the fact that you won't be able to activate it from Hue (and might run into problems with Hubitat scenes I occasionally encountered where all bulbs didn't end up in the right state unless I issued the command a couple times, but that's another story ).
Ahhh yes I should clarify. For most of my home I have generic home depot ecosmart zigbee bulbs, a19 white tunable.
I have 4 sengled br30 rgbw bulbs in my master bedroom that I wanted to use preset scenes for.
I could make my own in scenes. But I have also noticed the need to send multiple commands at times.
On a tangent. Does Cocohue support the hue labs scenes? Or dynamic ones? I definitely don't have the know how to make one of those
Probably not, and definitely not if they aren't exposed via the /scenes API in Hue (which most of the kind you mentioned are not, so "no" is the likely answer if you're not sure).
Thanks for answering my questions and Helping out!
I wqs at home depot today and they had 2 br30s and a hub on sale for 62 bucks, so I caved and bought two
is there some way to relate a virtual bulb I can link to philips hue, the mirror my sengled bulb to it?
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