Hue lights auto turn off

[JDRoberts]

You can do the same thing with IFTTT (trigger a Hue scene).

https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/211978466-IFTTT

Philips Hue Integrations - Connect Your Apps with IFTTT

And in both cases, you can do the complicated logic over on the SmartThings side and then turn on a virtual switch/sensor, and have that switch coming on be the “if” in either an Alexa routine or an IFTTT applet.

Unfortunately, there’s a bug right now with the Alexa/SmartThings integration, and the triggers are not working for all people all the time, which is very frustrating. I don’t know if the same issue is affecting Ifttt or not, I haven’t seen any reports on that.

New SmartThings Alexa skill (2020)

Since there has been a lot of posts about this recently, let me again clarify the situation. The issue of Alexa routines not working is a SmartThings issue and we are working on fixing it. There is nothing a user can do to resolve it, and it does not depend on the device type.