Favorite to change light temperature, brightness and hue?

[JDRoberts]

@jsumners

If you don’t want to wait, You can do this by creating a virtual switch to act as the widget and then having a web core piston that does all the settings and activates when that virtual switch is turned on.

Alternatively, if it’s only hue devices attached to the hue bridge, you can create a Hue scene with all the settings you want and then turn that on through IFTTT and again, a virtual switch.
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The IFTTT method is a little easier to set up, but might add some additional lag, that just varies from house to house.

I don’t know what most of that means.

No problem.

First, The easier one.

Optiion 1: use IFTTT to trigger a Hue scene

IFTTT if a free service, “If this, then that” which let you set up “applets” so that you can have an event on one service/device trigger an event on a different one, even if the two don’t have an official integration.

Smartthings has an IFTTT service, and so does Phillips hue. So you could have, for example, a switch turning on in smartthings as the “if” and a scene that you created with the Phillips hue app as the “that.” That way whenever the switch turns on, the scene will run. That give you your color and color temperature.

And to make things even better, smartthings allows you to create a “virtual switch” which doesn’t exist as a real physical switch, but which will show up on your things list and can be used in any of the SmartThings automations just like any other switch.

So you would end up with a virtual switch on your things list and tapping it in the app would then cause that Hue Scene to run.

Here’s the FAQ on creating a virtual device:

FAQ: Creating a virtual Groovy Device [OBSOLETE]

Need a FAQ for the simplest version of this: a virtual on/off switch. Maybe even two FAQs, one for why you would want one with use case examples and one step by step how to for creating one in ST. Thanks! 2023 Update Since groovy will be going away soon, so will groovy virtual switches. See the new FAQ for on the replacements: FAQ: Creating Virtual Devices Without the IDE

And here’s more information about IFTTT:

https://ifttt.com/blog/2017/05/how-to-build-an-applet

Option 2: WebCore

If you don’t want to have to build a scene in the hue app and use IFTTT, but you would rather do everything just with SmartThings, you can, using a community built rules engine called webcore. Getting it set up is a little complicated, but there are many community members Who would be glad to help.

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

Here again you will probably end up creating a virtual switch to add into your things list so that you can just press that icon and then have everything else happen that you want to have happen.

So both of these will work, and the end result will be the same: a single device icon in your list of devices that you can then use to trigger a specific group of settings for multiple bulbs. But they both take some work to set up.

That’s why I said you might just want to wait until this option is available through the official features, because it’s in beta now.