Hue with 3.3 - Best Practices?

[Neo1738]

4 hours ago, blub said:

There is an abundance of ZigBee hardware which could be put to use with Control4. I do understand the stack changes, however what prevents Control4 from creating a separate Mesh with Zigbee 3, i.e via a an external USB stick to have the best of both worlds? It would drastically increase the usefulness of Control4, especially compared to the catching up from smartthings and so on - also Matter integration would be really nice...

Security. If I remember correctly C4s stack is more secure. Using 3rd party could put c4 at more risk.

[blub]

On 9/25/2022 at 2:06 PM, Neo1738 said:

Security. If I remember correctly C4s stack is more secure. Using 3rd party could put c4 at more risk.

Security and number of ZG devices per mesh.

 

However C4 could also run a second mesh with zigbee 3.0 and LL to support all the available options, i.e. direct HUE connection - and yet they dont..

[RyanE]

On 9/25/2022 at 3:00 AM, blub said:

There is an abundance of ZigBee hardware which could be put to use with Control4. I do understand the stack changes, however what prevents Control4 from creating a separate Mesh with Zigbee 3, i.e via a an external USB stick to have the best of both worlds? It would drastically increase the usefulness of Control4, especially compared to the catching up from smartthings and so on - also Matter integration would be really nice...

Control4 *could* do all kinds of things.  Any of those things need to be weighed against other priorities.

RyanE

[BubbaDuck]

On 8/30/2022 at 12:37 AM, Cyknight said:

Yes (scenes or groups is what you'd use depending on situation) that would be the normal recommended way.

 

Are you meaning a C4 scene as opposed to a Hue scene? I don't believe C4 can call Hue scenes even with 3.3+ (though I would love to be proven wrong).

[pat.samson.509]

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[HomeAutomationNerd]

On 8/29/2022 at 5:18 AM, JSTRONG said:

Is it suggested to just keep continuous power to the Hue Fixtures/Bulbs and just have the Control4 keypads for Hue Scenes?

I have never figured out a way to do this. Any time a power outage happens, or a breaker trips, all the switches sensibly default to "Off". 

What's I've done for Hue is make all the switches into 2-button keypads, and when the Top Butting is pressed I have a 2 line program "If Power is Off then Turn On Power". This has worked well.