Gardenspot color changing roulette

dytkd · November 15, 2016, 2:43am

I am trying to get my gardenspots to rotate preset colors, can this be done?

Jimxenus · November 15, 2016, 3:03am

Using a community app called CoRE, you can do it easily. You will need to use a community based DTH as well:

[OBSOLETE] Osram LIGHTIFY GardenSpot Minis rgb - aap version Community Created Device Types

Osram LIGHTIFY GardenSpot Mini rgb - AAP Version A new version of the DTH for Osram GardenSpot Mini rgb lights (based on @Sticks18’s version). This DTH is for directly connecting the US (Z HA) versions to SmartThings. Without the Osram Gateway, the color loop functionality does not work for the US version of the GardenSpots (at least until they update the firmware). But using the “hueLoop” and “hueRandom” attributes of this DTH, one create a CoRE Piston to cause color loop (even random colors) Device Tile contains sliders for individual control of hue, saturation, and transition time. Device Tile also contains buttons for (1) “hueLoop” (boolean “on” / “off” values) and (2) “Random Hue” (causes hue to change to a random color). Use these in CoRE to create color loop. You can find th…

This one below was setup for Halloween colors, but you can change it easily to other colors or add more.

For just random colors, you can use this piston (CoRE created apps):

ygelfand · November 19, 2016, 1:44am

I actually just did something like this for myself, but w/ a smartapp. I’m using it for flexstrips, but should work w/ gardenspots as well as other rgbw devices. Its has preconfigured holidays, with colors (and easy enough to add/change your own), and is designed to pick the closet holiday (w/ some options). Yes I’m that lazy.

github.com

ygelfand/smartthings/blob/master/smartapps/ygelfand/holiday-color-lights.src/holiday-color-lights.groovy

/**
 *  Holiday Color Lights
 *
 *  Copyright 2016 ygelfand
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 */
definition(
    name: "Holiday Color Lights",
    namespace: "ygelfand",
    author: "ygelfand",
    description: "This SmartApp will change the color of selected lights based on closest holiday colors",

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still playing with it though.

Jimxenus · November 19, 2016, 2:33am

Thanks for this! I was going to create a bunch of CoRE apps to so something similar but this is so much easier!

Edit: Unfortunately, Gardenspot lights can’t really set a white color, I think the closest it comes to white is “Sky Blue”

dytkd · November 19, 2016, 2:38am

I am sorry to bother. I am still extremely new to CoRE. I added it yesterday, do i need to add the dth and then create the piston? Could you please continue to guide me?

Jimxenus · November 19, 2016, 3:34am

Actually, I don’t think you need to use the custom DTH but it can’t hurt and it gives you the flexibility to use random hues. Now that you have CoRE installed, you can create a SIMPLE piston to change multiple colors. If you take a look at my piston below:

I turn on my lights based on a lux value from one of my sensors. I also put in several conditions that include a time interval between sunset and 10:45pm and only during the month of November.

Then I create an Action where I can instruct CoRE to do several things. I set three different colors, wait 20 seconds after each change, and finally I tell CoRe to run the same piston again in a loop.

You’ll want to make sure to name your piston before setting up the “Then” part of your piston. The naming of your piston is further down after all of that.

Finally under Else, simply turn the automation off.

The default colors set in CoRE don’t really match the colors of the Gardenspots but you could type in specific Level, Hue & Saturation within CoRE.

dytkd · November 19, 2016, 8:29pm

Thank your this. I think I may have successfully completed my first piston, I gotta test it later tonight…

Jimxenus · November 19, 2016, 9:05pm

You might have problems setting the end time to 12am, I would change it to 11:59pm just so that you stay on the same day. Do you have the Else statement, that will make sure to end the piston.

dytkd · November 19, 2016, 10:07pm

No else yet. I can’t figure out how to do that last part -_-

Jimxenus · November 19, 2016, 10:12pm

There are different types of pistons when you first start out under Piston Mode: Do, Basic, Simple, Latching, etc. You’ll need to choose Simple.

cdmobile · November 19, 2016, 11:43pm

I am trying it with my gardenspots and it works good, thanks!

Edit: The time start won’t turn on the gardenspots. I am assuming it is supposed to?

eibyer · November 20, 2016, 1:10am

I’m going to have to try some other color names to add to the loop. Need to get the Christmas loop ready also.

dytkd · November 20, 2016, 1:16am

Awesomw. Thanks, I added else. Also the piston is running very well. However, as you predicted, the colors do not match, so I have to do some research and how to set the right color combination.

ygelfand · November 20, 2016, 4:44pm

No actually it isn’t right now (intentionally). Thinking was, there’s lots of other apps to schedule all sorts of logic for ‘on/off’ scheduling, and I didn’t think replicating all that logic made sense here. Instead what it does is act on sets of lights that are on. My use case may be a bit different, as I have a number of flex strip lights, each w/ their own controller/schedules/etc.

cdmobile · November 20, 2016, 5:28pm

Understood. If you make changes/improvements, can you tell me so I can update my IDE?

Thanks again.

dytkd · November 20, 2016, 5:33pm

I use the smart lights app to turn my gardenspot on at sunset

greg · November 20, 2016, 6:16pm

Installed this app. Excited for it. You should consider making your own thread for it because it might be pretty popular.

Your app shows Thanksgiving as 11/26 instead of 11/24 though.

When it considers what the closest holiday might be, does it only look forward? Or would Thanksgiving colors still be shown on 12/8 instead of Christmas colors?

ygelfand · November 20, 2016, 9:09pm

Yah its more difficult with floating holidays like thanksgiving, since I’d have to calculate it somehow, maybe if I find a decent library. How I got it to 11/26, I can’t tell you, no real reason for that, thanks

As far as which holiday to choose, there’s 2 options under ‘color selection’. Probably should describe things better, but “Closest Holiday” will be exactly like you describe, thanksgiving colors would run through early december. “Next holiday (with linger)” however would start xmas (or whatever the next holiday you have setup/chose) right after thanksgiving. The “Linger” parameter allows you to add any number of days, to allow the previous one to “linger”, showing the last holidays colors for the configured period. If that makes sense.

I may do a separate thread if there’s really enough demand, and if it works well across other rgb(w) lights, don’t really have the ability to test w/ others, so if you guys see bugs, let me know.

greg · November 20, 2016, 9:18pm

This is awesome. I didn’t notice that option.

BBoy486 · November 30, 2016, 4:45am

This is cool. Can you tie this to something besides holidays? Maybe give the option for daily settings, music integration?

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