# Best Practice: How do you use Hue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Created:** [April 29, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427 "2019-04-29T08:39:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johannes1702](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@johannes1702](https://community.homey.app/u/johannes1702)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/1 "2019-04-29T08:39:58Z")
Hi all, I’m using Homey with the Hue bridge. However I’m having a mix of scenes (in iConnectHue), schedules to switch lamps on/off, activation through motion sensors etc. It drives me a bit nuts as I want to have everything in Homey so I have a perfect overview what is happening when. However I find it a bit difficult to define in Homey how a lamp status should be (on, off, color, brightness) - having it to define for every single lamp is a bit annoying. So I’m wondering if there is a better way to do that and how you manage that… I know, pretty open question, still hoping for some ideas. 🙂 Johannes ---
**Author:** ![Osorkon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/osorkon/32/43026_2.png) [@Osorkon](https://community.homey.app/u/Osorkon)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 11:43am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/3 "2019-04-29T11:43:49Z")
> [@johannes1702](#): > > So I’m wondering if there is a better way to do that and how you manage that… Why you don’t use the Scenes you already created with the hue App?! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/a/aed0f2d71e8cb21377c7465f25577646643c447f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Azz24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/azz24/32/13456_2.png) [@Azz24](https://community.homey.app/u/Azz24)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/4 "2019-04-29T11:53:46Z")
My (limited) experience is that it’s very difficult to get Hue lights to operate exactly as you want using the apps available on Homey. After a lot of trial and error I gave in and now use the Hue app and in particular many of the Hue Lab formulas and it works great. I still have every light added as a device on Homey which gives me an overview of each lamp’s status. ---
**Author:** ![Jamie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jamie/32/5274_2.png) [@Jamie](https://community.homey.app/u/Jamie)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:24am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/5 "2019-04-30T05:24:53Z")
I do the same as Azz24, I use the Hue hub and while i’ve added the devices to Homey - for flows or if I have the app open. As well as created groups for them. (All Downstairs Lights) I generally use the Hue iphone app … its a piece of custom made software to solve controlling lights. - Its also faster to access the devices via Alexa/Google directly then via Homey. ---
**Author:** ![johannes1702](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@johannes1702](https://community.homey.app/u/johannes1702)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 5:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/6 "2019-04-30T05:38:38Z")
Thank you all. Seems using Homey and a Hue app for whatever each is doing best is the „best practice“ 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Sammyj](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/sammyj/32/11012_2.png) [@Sammyj](https://community.homey.app/u/Sammyj)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/7 "2019-04-30T23:33:02Z")
With the hue bridge and Homey i trigger scenes. I never trigger a certain bulb ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/9/9fb527ab14c74060aa886bfcb5be9b6d3a70c386.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Azz24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/azz24/32/13456_2.png) [@Azz24](https://community.homey.app/u/Azz24)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 1:49am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/8 "2019-05-02T01:49:09Z")
I find when I change colours / temperatures from within Homey the previous setting carries over to next time the light is turned on. Eg a lamp is set to purple in the evening and turned off when I sleep. In the morning I want the lamp to turn on to a cool white setting. When turned on its goes purple first then changes to cool white. Not a major issue, but its annoying. When I makes the changes outside of Homey using the native Hue App it works as intended. ---
**Author:** ![Jamie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jamie/32/5274_2.png) [@Jamie](https://community.homey.app/u/Jamie)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/9 "2019-05-02T13:53:02Z")
Up until last week (ie v3) If you attempt to change a value (using the Athom Homey App) while the device is turned off. Ie Globe is off and you set it to Cool white. The underlaying library Athom was using throws a tanty. I noticed this color/brightness/hue/temps sent using the group app to a device which is off, but that was with version 3. I havent had a chance to test version 4 or look into how it is handled now. I guess to get around this issue, they are turning on the globe … then changing it to what you have asked for. Annoying, but perhaps knowing why will make it less so? ---
**Author:** ![Dijker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dijker](https://community.homey.app/u/Dijker)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/best-practice-how-do-you-use-hue/12427/10 "2025-07-06T17:52:09Z")
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