Pine Tree Original

HUE bloom control from smart things, with no hue bridge. I recently received a Samsung SmartThings Smart Home Hub & Philips Hue Bloom, Zigbee, Works with Amazon Alexa  and was excited to get started automating lights and changing its colors, from the app and the google home. After a bit of research ( aka googling and reading the ST forums)  all I could find was that I needed the Hue Bridge to connect the ST hub to the Hue Bloom. This did not sit well with me and I though the protocols must be sort of universal to turn on/off, intensity, color. So I got the ST app to at least recognize the device even if it did not know what it was and started to systematically go through the ST ide   to figure out if I could tell the app that it was a smart light with color control. After some trial and error I found a solution that allows me to use the ST automation to control the On/Off, color and intensity from the app. I can also now use the Google home ( setting it as a d...

I received a SmartThings hub as a gift this past holiday season and have been working on the integrations between different manufacturers and services (Belkin, HUE, Logitech, IFTTT , Google assistant, Home Assistant -> Raspberry pi based automation, Particle photon,....) It was purchased through amazon and look like the image below: All the testing and tinkering has been great, and I have found the SmartThings app to be the best way to interact with all the things ( as it should be, they were early and are continuing to improve). Trying to use IFTTT to control stuff and plugging into other services is great but if SmartThings has the option use it. Simplicity is the key to all of this home automation, working, succeeding, continuing,... ( I enjoy the aspects of figuring it out and making it work, while dealing with a few hiccups, I do not think most people would have been as easy going about it and would have gotten quite frustrated, it is easy to get frustrated. You just e...