Aeon Labs Minimote with SmartThings?

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Tyler: You may have already notice; but there’s a Thread that is entering charted and uncharted territory discussing the concept of Scenes and their relationship to Hello Home ™ Actions. I realize there’s a lot of overlap between the concepts, but I think it is too early to dismiss one way of thinking over the other.

In other words, for example: In Hello Home Actions you can turn on a set of lights and set them all to the SAME dimmer level. I’d much rather capture the set of lights along with their individually set dim levels (like Scene Machine does), and then have that “Scene Object” be activatable throughout the system (i.e., from a Hello Home Action or other Event / Virtual Button or Minimote Button).

Are there scenes?

Greetings! I’m a brand new Smartthings user, but I’ve used home automation devices for about 15 years. In the case of Smartthings, I think that’s more of a hindrance than a benefit, because it looks like Smartthings is designed very differently from any of the solutions I’ve used before. Anyway, here’s my basic question, which for some reason I just can’t figure out: how do I set up a “scene?” I don’t know if ST calls them something else, but I’m coming from using Vera, where everything was pretty much divided into devices and scenes. This is limiting in some ways but exactly what I need in others. Most of the time, I don’t actually want my automation solution to think too much for me. Sometimes I just want to be able to hit a button and have all the lights in a room turn on to preset dim…