okay i know this was probably been talked about before but i couldn’t find anything to answer my questions. I have philips hue bulbs 60W and several GE 45602 plug in dimmers. Each light has a wall switch to the lamp non Z wave switch. All of my philips hue bulbs are connected to my vera im using the hue plugin for the vera which works great. Now my question is how can i control my hue bulbs with some type of switch that i don’t have to hardwire into the wall. The whole reason i went with hue is because i live in a apartment and didn’t want to hardwire anything, but now im facing this problem because everyone wants to use the wall switch and it disconnects them from the vera. Right now im using a Ge 45600 z wave remote which it turns the hue bulbs on but for some reason won’t turn them back off . Now when i use the 45600 for the GE dimmers it will turn them on and off . Not sure why it will turn the hue bulbs on but not off, im using the 45600 as a primary controller. And im only using the 45600 for scenes. Now back to my question how can i get a switch to control my hue bulbs i dont care really what it is long as it will turn them on/off with my vera. And i dont have to hardwire any switches in the wall. So below are some idea’s i had with the links . If anyone has any idea’s the would be great thanks for the help…
some idea’s how to use vera and hue
hue with trackpad http://www.everyhue.com/vanilla/discussion/256/wall-mounted-trackpad-gesture-control/p1
This looks really cool and i got it to work however i did it in a different way. I have not idea how to use applescripts
the way i did it i could any control one hue bulb and not scenes with vera.
what im using now the GE 45600 http://www.amazon.com/GE-45600-Z-Wave-Handheld-Remote/dp/B0013V6RW0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392078844&sr=8-1&keywords=z+wave+remote
These are nice but it wont turn hue off only on i use vera to make scenes for the remote
This was going to be my nexted option the GE 45631 http://www.amazon.com/GE-45631-Z-Wave-Wireless-Controller/dp/B003OUWABU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1392079024&sr=8-3&keywords=scenes+controller
Sounds like these have alot of problems with the vera lite and dont work well with them.
I was also think of just using a standard motion sensor here http://www.amazon.com/Schlage-RS200HC-SL-Motion-Intelligence/dp/B008Q5CTTG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1392079306&sr=8-2&keywords=zwave+motion
But then you face the problem of the lights turning off if someone is still in the room or if their in the room and dont want the lights on then the lights turn on.
So their is some idea’s i had is their a perfect answer to my question?? thanks any help would be great . ???