Smart Things - Hue Bloom No Hue bridge!

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 device in Google Home app)  to tell it to turn on the light, at a brightness, and color.



As far as I can tell this gives me all the functionality that the bridge would give me but no need for another device, I have not bought any other HUE bulbs to try because I had a specific want for the Hue Bloom ( I am not on board with loosing the ability to turn on and off lights, if the switch is off. I am lucky enough to have the correct wiring for smart switches)

I made a Google Doc and PDF with the instructions, and would like to know if anyone could attempt to setup a regular hue bulb in the same sort of way without the Bridge and comment below.

I updated the DOC and PDF above to include the Philips 468058 Hue White A19 Light Bulbs, 3-Pack, Works with Amazon Alexa, instead of just using the bloom, it is step 12a, otherwise everything else is the same.
As some people also learn from watching video I have also created a Youtube video:

Thanks for reading and happy Home Automating!