How are you guys "Automation-triggering" your Fibaro RGBW (confused Noob here)

[JDRoberts]

@Nocturn

@Motley
@twack
Hey guys,
Would I be correct to say that the native “Smart Lights” app has no idea how to properly control the Fibaro?

I installed my Fibaro to Smart things and it appears to have given me @twack 's controller SmartApp, which works great as a handheld remote. However when I try to schedule anything by triggers or time using the integrated lighting scheduler in “Smart Lights”, nothing really happens at all. Am I doing something wrong or is this what everyone sees?

As a plan-B I also Followed @JDRoberts suggestion and set up several virtual switches and installed @Motley’s “Fibaro Pattern Trigger” only to learn (again, please correct me if I am wrong) that it seems to be capable of only a single preset no matter how many switches you make (For example, once I assign the Fibaro to a Virtual switch (lets say “police”) I can no longer select that same fibaro on a different switch (lets say “daylight”). (Maybe ST prevents a single device be used by multiple switches?)

At the end of the day, I am really hoping to simply turn on pure white @100% at 5pm, then maybe 30% blue at 10pm, then maybe use the “police” preset in the event an alarm is triggered. Is this even possible? If so, how would I go abount it (ive read through all of the Fibaro thread posts (there are alot!) and I didn’t see any specific solutions in there for scheduling)

Help! (And thanks in advance for your time)

Yes to all of the above, except that I think you would just have to install @Motley’s smartapp once for each preset and then it should work. That’s typical of smartapps, nothing to do with the Fibaro, there are a lot of smartapps where you end up with multiple installs just to get everything working. The exception is smartapps like Smart Lighting or Core which have a “parent/child” structure (SmartThings terminology) where you only have to install the parent once and then it can create multiple children.

But I’m just guessing, because I rely on text to speech I can’t read the code and I haven’t tried that smartapp myself. So I would ask in the Fibaro thread and someone there should know for sure.