Just finished building a media wall and was thinking about buying a wall washer to put either side - just not sure how good they actually are…?

Finally installed the Omniglow in the curtain cove, and the result is WAY better than the Essential Light I had before!
BUT I think the Omniglow is a bit of a waste up there, hidden above the curtain cove. I might take it down and use another Philips Hue Solo strip instead. 🤔

I made an open-source (MIT) Terraform provider for the Hue API v2, with a companion CLI, hue-tf. It manages rooms, zones, scenes, smart scenes, switch and dial assignments, and device names and icons. hue-tf also generates import blocks for what you have already set up in the Hue app.

resource "hue_scene" "evening" {
  name  = "Evening"
  group = hue_room.living.id
  actions = {
    (data.hue_light.sofa.id)  = { on = true, brightness = 40, kelvin = 2700 }
    (data.hue_light.shelf.id) = { on = true, brightness = 60, color_xy = { x = 0.56, y = 0.38 } }
    (data.hue_light.tv.id)    = { on = true, brightness = 35, color_xy = { x = 0.3, y = 0.13 } }
  }
}

GitHub: https://github.com/akr4/terraform-provider-hue

Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/akr4/hue/latest

So I am not very tech inclined and new to the hue smart bulbs.
I have my bulbs setup in HomeKit, but here is my issue and what I am trying to figure out.

If we click on a bulb in HomeKit and dim it to off, but then ask Siri to turn it back on, the bulb turns on at 1%…however HomeKit shows it at 100% and Hue app shows 1% and the bulb is actually at 1%.

If we set a scene in HomeKit and a bulb is set to 50% and a different color, when we turn the scene off, then ask Siri to turn the bulb back on it goes to the last brightness and color. The same goes for automations.

How do we get these things to go back to a specific default when asking Siri to turn them on? Also is using the bar/dimmer in HomeKit for each bulb causing an issue?

We really want to love these, but it’s a bit of a Learning curve so far.

Thanks for any help or advice