Hue Lightstrip rotaring lights option?

[JDRoberts]

@aurfalien

Hi,

I’ve used other apps to rotate the color of my Hue Lightstrip and was curious of there was a way to do it via SamrtThings?

I’ve the light strip come on based on a SmartThings motion sensor and would love to have it also randomly change colors while on.

Thanks in advance.

The easiest way is just to use the Hue IFTTT channel/service, It has a color loop option.

Philips Hue Integrations - Connect Your Apps with IFTTT

So you use that as the “that” in an IFTTT applet, and use something from SmartThings as the “if.”

Alternatively, you can probably do this with core, you should ask in their peer Assistance thread and somebody there will know.

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