Sync Z-Wave Switch Status w/ Philips Hue Bulb?

[JDRoberts]

@vashwood

For aesthetic purposes, I am using a WT00Z-1 with my Philips Hue bulb.

It works fine w/ Smart Light when I exclusively use the switch to turn the bulb on/off. The issue occurs when I use Alexa or the Hue app to turn on the bulb. The switch still thinks the bulb is off. Is there a way for me to sync the switch with the status of the bulb?

It’s been a while since I checked into this, but used to be able to have the official smart lighting feature have the Switch follow the bulb as well as have the bulb follow the switch, creating a true virtual three-way. But I don’t know if that still works.

https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/205949776-How-to-create-lighting-automations-with-Smart-Lights

If it doesn’t, you should certainly be able to do it with web core, although that sounds like overkill unless smartlighting doesn’t work for this purpose.

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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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…

If you try the smart lighting option, let us know either way whether it works, because this is a pretty common question.