Does Home App (Homekit) not remember lighting settings?

I am using the Home App with Philips Hue Bulbs.


I have created different 'Scenes' or my hallway lights with different lighting colors, tones, and brightness ffor early morning, when I get home from work, and mood lighting for watching movies, etc. Within Home App - and within each Scene - I can change the color and brightness of the Philips Hue bulbs.


However, each Scene does not remember the lighting settings. If I am watching a movie with mood lighting before I go bed (and shut off the lights with the "Good Night" scene), when I turn on my 'Morning' scene the lights are in the same settings (colors, etc.) of my mood lighting.


In other words, the "scenes" are not really scenes at all, just controlling on/off of the lights and they will come on at their last setting. Either I am totally missing something (sorry!) or this is a pretty substantial omission from the app.

Posted on Feb 18, 2018 10:48 AM

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Feb 21, 2018 6:05 AM in response to zinacef

Nope, didn't work. Deleted everything. Had to re-install all my Homekit devices, they didn't migrate from their native apps like they did the first time. Lost my HomePod too, had to re-install that. Recreated everything from scratch. Same result: scenes do not control the colors of the Hue lights, they only control on and off, the lights will turn on at the last color setting they were on at.


In other words, I created a Wake Up scene with white light and a Red scene with red light. Created both in the Home app and when I did I can choose the color before I save the scene. However, if I use the Red scene at night, use the Good Night scene to shut them off, and use the Wake Up scene in the morning, the Wake Up scene will turn the lights on and they will not be white which is what I set, but red.

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