Do I Have to Create a Scene for a Scene Controller Remote if All I Want is a Single Device Toggle?

I'm using a Vera Edge as a controller although I think this applies to most Z-Wave-based controllers.

I recently installed a Minoston S2 SmartStart 4-button remote via Z-Wave. My desire is to have each of the 4 buttons on the remote device toggle a single Z-Wave connected device on the same controller.

When I initially installed the device I used Generic Z-Wave and things didn't start off too well. I contacted Vera support and they changed something to make it a scene controller. I now have access to the four buttons from within Vera to assign a function to each button. The only issue is that my only options to assign to the buttons are scenes.

Is there a way to have: "Button #1 toggle that light on/off" and "Button #2 toggle that fan on/off" and nothing more?

That's all I'm looking to do with each button is use it as another way to toggle devices within the room on or off when I don't want to use Alexa or a physical button elsewhere in the room. I really don't need something as complex as scene control with these buttons.

Do I really need to s/u some elaborate scene for EACH of these buttons on all of these remotes to gain simple toggle functionality?

Submitted by ostrichsak

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