Help with Philips Hue and Motion Sensors scenarios

[JDRoberts]

@blue2017

The Hue sensors is connected to the Hue Bridge and the bridge connected to Smartthings, and the Iris Sensors are connected directly to ST.

OK, smartthings doesn’t have any way of controlling the Hue sensors which are connected to the hue bridge, so you just have to do whatever you can do within the hue app.

Hue offers the “Hue labs formulas” with some app options that are still in beta. They have a whole bunch of these for the motion sensor, some of which sound like they might fit some of your use cases. So you should definitely check those out.

HueLabs | Test new Philips Hue Features and Scenes

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As far as the other sensors, you’ll be able to do much more complicated rules with those, just depending on how you want to set them up. see the following ( this is a clickable link)

How to Get Started Creating Complex Rules in SmartThings

(This is a wiki post: feel free to edit it or add to it as needed. Also, I can’t take any screenshots since I can’t use the app at this time due to its incompatibility with voiceover, so feel free to add screenshots where they would be helpful.) At one point, one of the biggest advantages of using the SmartThings platform was the wide variety of devices that it supported. However, by the end of 2017 several competing platforms had caught up in that regard. Where SmartThings still holds a significant advantage over some of the other low-cost home automation solutions is in the ability to really build really complex rules in a fairly simple manner. You won’t have to be a programmer, but you may need the help of other community members to get the logic constructed just right. Also, you …