Philips Hue Dimming Switch (no?) support

[JDRoberts]

The Hue dimmer switch is not visible to smartthings when it is connected to a Hue bridge and it cannot be connected directly to the hub.

There are many people, myself included, who use it as a parallel means of control. That is, the switch will work with the bridge to control the lights and SmartThings will work with the bridge to control the lights it’s just that SmartThings doesn’t know that the switch exists. But smartthings does poll the hue bridge for the status of the bulbs about every five seconds, so smartthings will know that a bulb came on when the switch turned it on.

You just can’t use the switch to control anything other than devices connected to the hue bridge.

People have tried if you want to take a look at the existing efforts:

Phillips Hue Dimmer Switch Integration?

So I understand that the Hue Dimmer Switch doesn’t act the way ST wants it to, but it connects fine to the Hue Bridge, and ST connects fine to the Hue Bridge, why won’t ST recognize when I use the Dimmer to turn on or off a light. The light reacts, but ST thinks the light is still in whatever state IT previously put it in. Why doesn’t the Hue Bridge update ST on the current state of the bulb? Is there a way we could integrate this in with a smart app?