@Thinkfire thank you so much for you donation, I really appreciate it! Garrett's right. currently, Home Buddy is only capable of receiving intents for Scenes. I do have, in my pipeline, the ability to trigger device actions, but to be honest, that's a bit low on the list right now because I feel like Vera provides more flexibility in it's interface to make granular controls using Scenes. I think Garrett's app is worth checking out as well if you need this level of granularity on your Android device right now.
By the way, have you seen my tips and tricks page? The 1 tip and trick on there now is pretty much what you're asking for... it shows how to set up Tasker or Llama to trigger scenes in Home Buddy. The intent in the tutorial is the same as what's behind the shortcuts that Home Buddy creates.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you have more questions, thanks.