I have GE z-wave switches throughout my house for all of my light switches. Recently I replaced some of my dumb bulbs on these switches with Hue bulbs.For the room with the Hue bulbs, the switches are in an always on state and I’ll use whatever controls (voice, app, etc) to control the bulbs. However, this creates a potential scenario where a guest, housekeeper, etc will try to turn on the z-wave switch and nothing happens. often they’ll intuitively turn turn the switch off then on again to take manual control of the bulb which is less than ideal.
As a potential way of dealing with this scenario,I’m wondering if it would it be possible for a smart app to detect a redundant “on” event on the z-wave switch, and use it to trigger the hue bulb to on.
Basically something like this (pseudo code)
.on(switch_state_change)
if(switch.state.on) { // turn on hue bulb and set brightness to 100% }
else if (switch.state.off) { switch.state.on === true }
I havn’t seen any apps that do anything like this, so I’m wondering if that may be for a reason. The only reason I can think this wouldn’t be possible, would be if the switch doesn’t actually send an event to ST when the switch is turned on if was already in an “on” state.
Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!