# Activate Hue scene with HomeyScript?

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/activate-hue-scene-with-homeyscript/55255>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Created:** [November 22, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/activate-hue-scene-with-homeyscript/55255 "2021-11-22T15:47:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colin\_Osborne](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/colin_osborne/32/79809_2.png) [@Colin\_Osborne](https://community.homey.app/u/Colin_Osborne)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2023, 9:49am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/activate-hue-scene-with-homeyscript/55255/6 "2023-07-15T09:49:34Z")

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Re-targeted my question over here (with an Apps tag), and got an answer that resolved my misunderstandings and got this working for me:

> [@Hue app via HomeyScript - individual device control working, but not setScene, groupOn, groupOff - hints & tips?](https://community.homey.app/t/hue-app-via-homeyscript-individual-device-control-working-but-not-setscene-groupon-groupoff-hints-tips/84590/3):
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> Oh goodness, yes, thank you! … that works I had multiple mistakes and misunderstandings … I hadn’t understood the structure, naming and therefore passing of the ‘scene’ within the args … scene: { … params …}. I had skipped passing bridge\_id … not thinking through what I was previously getting/doing courtesy of the Homey API/services, but that now I need to go via Philips Hue App for myself and out through the Hue Bridge. And yes I was trying to control a scene by name, not by ID. I’m sure I h…

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