I’m a fairly recent convert to Home Assistant from another Smart Home configuration. With my Hassio setup I added a GoControl combination Z-Wave and Zigbee USB controller. As I have been playing with the system and slowly learning how to do things here I realized that my Philips Hue lights could be accessed directly through Home Assistant with the Zigbee controller.
So my question is this, is there really any reason to add the Philips Hue Integration into Home Assistant when it appears that I can control everything directly from within Home Assistant? Are there still controls through the Philips Hue Integration that I cannot do as well or as efficiently as just doing them straight through Home Assistant?
I did play around with scenes a little in the Hue app, but these were just minor things, nothing serious enough to need to be ported to the new configuration.