Non-Intuitive and Lacks Basic Functions

This app works to the extent that you can use it to turn your Hue lights on and off. You cant group lights by room, only by the non-intuitive "scene" designation. Most frustrating are the "alarm" and "timer" functions. The concept of a light timer is well-established; it means a device that turns your lights on and off at a specific time every day. As in "I put my Christmas tree lights on a timer" or "Im going out of town so I put my living room lights on a timer." Not so with the Hue app, in which the timer function is like a kitchen timer, counting down a set time until they turn off. You cant schedule it to repeat, and I cant imagine what this would be useful for. If you want to accomplish what would normally be done with a timer, you have to set multiple alarms: one to turn your selected lights on, and another to turn them off. And if you edit a scene for which you have set an alarm, you need to delete and recreate the alarm, because it does not adapt to the new lights in the scene. Since timers and dimmers are the two primary tweaks for lights, and all I really hoped to accomplish with a Hue system, I was extremely disappointed to learn how complicated and difficult it is to schedule lighting in my home.

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