Alexa, like most woman just doesn’t understand me. Has anyone found a way to have her change the color temperature of the Osram Lightify lamps through Smartthings? Thank you in advance for your help.

[image] billhartmann: Has anyone found a way to have her change the color temperature of the Osram Lightify lamps through Smartthings? I don’t think you can do it directly. I use RM rules that are triggered by virtual switches that I expose to Alexa; one for each “scene”. Then I just tell A…

Thank you for the reply. I am brand new to Smartthings and will have to research RM rules to understand your work around. Is this an app?

It opens many more doors [image] Rule machine - as per the app developer, this app is no longer available for new installs, distribution, or support Community Created SmartApps Rule Machine is no longer available.

[image] FAQ: Creating a virtual Groovy Device [OBSOLETE] Wiki Need a FAQ for the simplest version of this: a virtual on/off switch. Maybe even two FAQs, one for why you would want one with use case examples and one step by step how to for creating one in ST. Thanks! 2023…

This is great. I assume this technology is just in it’s infancy and as time goes by, there will be more and more apps developed to include these actions without having to create them yourself. But having tools like Rule Machine at least allows you to get the job done now. Thank you for all of this …

I use ifttt to do this… I setup multiple rules. ie alexa trigger color the hot tub red etc.

I am trying to do the exact same thing here. Have a few colored lightify bulbs and Echo can control on/off and dimming natively through Smartthings but not color. I will explore RM (looks very interesting) - have already created a virtual switch labeled to turn one of the lights purple. I assume all…

[image] Rbats: assume all I would need to do is create a rule that turns that light purple (assuming color controls for the actual bulb are available to set) with the trigger being the virtual switch that I would expose to Echo?? That’s the gist of it. If you think in terms of “scenes” (grou…

Ifttt works with colors on a Philips hue hub. If you add the Bubba yo a Hyde hub it should work.

@chickwebb - thanks much for the quick and detailed response. Will give this a try this afternoon and see how it goes.

How do you change the color temperature of Osram Lightify lamps using Echo?

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How do you change the color temperature of Osram Lightify lamps using Echo?

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