How to control Hue Lights in a group?

[Jnick (John)]

I finally paired my Hue hub with ST last night. It was extremely easy! The only annoyance is for something like my Dining Room light, with 5 bulbs, I don’t want to have to control each one individually.

Is there a way to have a virtual dimming/color changing switch/bulb that I can control which will then control the 5 lights? Or a way to do a Master/slave setup?

I did create a virtual switch using the On/Off tile which works, however it has no Dimming control. Is it possible to get Dimming control and possibly even color control?!

Thanks!

[infofiend]

There are several alternatives. You can try the “Dim with Me” smartapp. There’s also a “hue groups (connect)” smartapp that you can try. I have made a Flexi lighting system you can find here:

FLEXi Lighting - a flexible system for lighting scenes (Hues, dimmers, and switches)

A personal project of mine has been to get my Hue and Dimmer lights to work exactly as I want them to. I wanted to be able to easily set up a number of fully automated scenes, but also wanted to keep WAF high. To do this, I determined that I wanted (needed?) the following: A way to easily set up X number of lighting scenes; A way to easily set up color and/or level settings for X number of lights in each scene (ideally without having to repeat entering the same settings for multiple lights) as well as the “no motion” off time for each scene; A way to quickly and easily (temporarily) override the Scene Settings with Manual settings (and revert if necessary); Flexibility in what causes the triggering of the lights on / off within any scene (e.g., Will changing to the Scene, by itself, cau…

[Jnick (John)]

Fantastic! Thanks! I will mess with those when I get home.