Routine to turn on lights, set brightness, and set color

[brumster (Paul)]

This is possible. It just might require something like CoRE to accomplish it.

You could for example create a virtual switch (via the IDE) and then create a CoRE piston to set the scene when that switch is turned on.

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

Alternatively you could use a virtual remote like this:*

8-button Virtual Remote Control

Here’s a virtual remote control with 8 buttons. It emulates Aeon Labs Minimote (sort of, only “button push” events are implemented, sorry no “button held”, but with 8 buttons instead of four). It can be used with the “Button Controller” SmartApp to turn switches on and off, open and close door locks, change home “modes”, trigger “Hello Home” actions, etc. Note, that “Button Controller” app supports only four buttons though. It would be nice if one could change button labels from the device settings. Unfortunately, SmartThings won’t let you do that. But hey, at least you can edit them in the source code Also, you cannot assign icons to the buttons individually. If you change the icon or set custom background, all buttons will inherit it. Oh well… [image] …

*note that the code for this is not in OP’s GitHub at present, a request has been made to see if it might still be available.