How to strobe LIFX bulbs when Skybell is pressed? (Notification for person who is deaf)

[DeafBowTie (Louis Schwarz)]

Am trying to find how to set up the automation that when SkyBellHD button is pressed, the LIFX bulbs will flash (on and off) for approx 10 seconds or so so it will alert the Deaf person about the doorbell ring. BLINK method does not work well for Deaf because it is hard to be noticed. Strobe light style is fine. Need to set for approx 10 seconds rather to be on once the button is pressed. Must be off after 10 seconds.

[JDRoberts]

You may have to use IFTTT to link skybell HD and Smartthings

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SkyBell HD Integrations - Connect Your Apps with IFTTT

Then since the strobe option is not available through the LIFX IFTTT service, you can use webcore to achieve it.

Strobe lights?

I was thinking. I get in trouble when I think too much. I have an alarm that goes off when any door or window sensors open at night when I am home. I would like to make the alarm go off and the rest of the lights in the house strobe or at least go on and off if the same sensors are open when I am away. Does anyone know of a smartapp or webcore piston that will accomplish this?

If you haven’t used webcore before, see the FAQ (this is a clickable link)

FAQ: What is WebCoRE? (And what was CoRE?)

CoRE (now WebCore) is a very powerful community – created rules engine for SmartThings. It allows you to set up stacked conditionals like “If A then B but only while C and not if D.” Setting it up can be quite complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help you. For example, here is a piston that one member created to notify him if the dog had already been fed twice that day and he picked up the dog bowl for a third time. He needed this because he has a large family and people didn’t always remember whose turn it was to feed the dog. [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface. This allows for flexibility and an architecture that requires more memory than is av…

(Edit note: your topic title originally said “blink” and blink is available through the LIFX IFTTT channel, so you wouldn’t need smartthings for that . I have changed the topic title to “strobe” to match what you were actually looking for. )

[DeafBowTie (Louis Schwarz)]

I did use IFTTT, but when triggered, it came a few minutes or more - too late to be alerted. I contacted both SkyBell and IFTTT support services and both blame to each other. No solution yet.

[eric182 (Eman ym)]

You can strobe LIFX bulb with webCoRE. I do it for Halloween.

Strobe lights?

I was thinking. I get in trouble when I think too much. I have an alarm that goes off when any door or window sensors open at night when I am home. I would like to make the alarm go off and the rest of the lights in the house strobe or at least go on and off if the same sensors are open when I am away. Does anyone know of a smartapp or webcore piston that will accomplish this?