[OBSOLETE][UPDATED as of March 24, 2016] Hue Lights & Groups & Scenes (OH MY!)

[claytonjn (Clayton)]

@RobtheEngineer has very concise instructions for a smartphone agnostic method for creating groups. From the OP of their SmartApp thread:

@RobtheEngineer

To create a group you have to use the Philiips Hue Debug Tool, go to http://developers.meethue.com/ and click on the Getting Started and go through the steps to learn to use the Debug Tool.

To create a group using the debug tool, in the URL put “/api/newdeveloper/groups” and in the Message Body put {“name”:“Name of Group”,“lights”:[“1”,“2”,“3”]} and click POST.

The only thing that you might run into is that you have to create an access tolken and use that instead of newdeveloper. Instructions to do that are in the link. This is a more recent security change put in place by Hue.