Is Philips Hue the neglected one and TCP the favored one

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

@mchiefp

Additionally I would really like to create scenes (various color and brightness levels) with specific hue lights and active these scenes using a zwave aeon labs minimote. This might already be possible using a custom smart app but needs to be part of the base Smartthings dashboard or hello home actions.

Scenes are something that I’ve requested a year or two ago; but I have no idea if they are on the roadmap.

There is a good “Scene Machine” SmartApp (by @wackware), and I’m likely to expand upon it, I think … I was hesitating in the hopes that a more integrated approach would come from SmartThings as you suggest.

Here’s a long discussion you can refer to – I’d love your input!

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…

…CP / Terry.