Philips hue and zwave switch

[TheCellMC]

I am planning on moving my house to hue but I have some questions first.
Firstly, if there is a power cut all of the light will go back on which is an issue, can this be prevented?
Secondly, I would like to use a zwave switch with the hue bulbs. To do this I guess I could create a rule that if hue bulb turned off, turn off zwave switch. But how will I do it if I want to turn on the lights using the hue app and the zwave switch for that bulb is off?

[JDRoberts]

@TheCellMC

But how will I do it if I want to turn on the lights using the hue app and the zwave switch for that bulb is off?

You can’t.

Fortunately, there are many other solutions for this. See the FAQ on switches to use with Hue bulbs. (This is a clickable link.)

FAQ: Philips Hue and Other Smart Bulbs - What sort of light switches to use with them? (Long FAQ)

Thinking on a big move to Hue lights, the real question is - what switches to use with them? If they’re all automatable via ST and other devices, do I really want to put them all on controllable switches too? There’s the advantage that I can arrange to ensure those switches are on so that the the Hue bulbs would be too…but it also leaves open the ability for folks to just turn them off and leave them off. Hmm. Thoughts?

As for what to do if the power goes out, as you mentioned, most smart bulbs including hues will come back on to full power when the power is restored.

One community member has written a smart app which monitors an individual bulb and if it comes on, it then restores all the smart bulbs to their previous state. So they do come back on, but only briefly.

[OBSOLETE] SmartBulb Power Outage handler

I was tired of coming home or waking up to find all my smart bulbs turned on due to a power outage. This app was inspired by the concept of a “Canary” bulb from @JDRoberts ( see Power Outage and Zigbee Bulbs) Basically you set up a smart bulb that you never use. If this bulb is on, then the app turns it off and any bulbs that were off before the power outage occurred. There is a lot of discussion on other posts about whether you should be changing the states of bulbs because you don’t know if anyone intended to change the states of the light while the power was out or after the power came back on and before the ST hub reconnects to the internet. This option works for my usage, hopefully it works for yours. The code: definition( name: "Smarter Bulbs", namespace: "nsweet68", author…