Improving scenes with Hue Lights and motion detection

I have been having some issues trigging scenes in my kitchen that has 9 hue bulbs. I have a motion sensor that triggers one of 3 different scenes depending on the time of the day. However about 60% of the time not al the bulbs come on, usually just 2 or 3 stay off. If I trigger the scene manually it seems to work.

I suspect the delay is more related to the Hue Bridge not being able to “process” all 9 lights in the correct color.

Is there a way I could improve this process to ensure all of the lights trigger properly.

Are you activating a Home Assistant Scene or a Hue Scene?

For the best performance, you should use a Hue Scene. One broadcasted command serves to activate all members of the scene. In contrast, Home Assistant’s Scene sends a separate command to each member of the Scene.

I am activating a home assistant scene, i created them based on my scenes in Hue. I wasn’t even aware that you could activate a hue scene that does should like it could eliminate the issue.

Yes, create the Hue scene using the Philips Hue app then refer to it using hue.hue_activate_scene.

Here’s an example from one of my scripts:

      - service: hue.hue_activate_scene
        data:
          group_name: 'Pool'
          scene_name: 'Pool White'
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This is great thank you! Just changed all of my automation over to that method and the response time is much faster as well.

You rock!

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