Does anyone have any ideas on setting up lights to continuously and randomly fade on and off or turn on and off randomly to simulate lightning for Halloween?
If you check the quick browse list in the community ā created wiki under project reports and look for the list on holidays you will find several Halloween threads there with various ideas. 
For outside I use this:
Rather expensive but effective. It can be re-purposed for Christmas lights, etc.
Inside I use the Fibaro RGBW LED strip controller āStormā animation:
It doesnāt have thunder but still pretty cool.
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Iām interested in the same thing. Iām not very good with the programming aspect and need some hand holdingā¦ But Iād really want to have my lights dim and flash to simulate power surges/outage
I move my hue lights around to the front of the house and use hue Halloween app and a Bluetooth speakerā¦ Pretty cool affectsā¦ Freaks the kids out!
I find smartthings and zwave to be too slow for continuous effects for Halloween and Christmasā¦ Native Hue is fast thoughā¦
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Iāve got 4 16 channel Light-O-Rama lighting controllers. You think SmartThings in general is a PIA to set up, try programming a dozen songs or special effects tracks with that many channels. Iāve wasted so much of my lifeā¦so muchā¦
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