LIFX & Color Control?

[JDRoberts]

Hopefully someone who has LIFX will respond. Meanwhile, I do know that some people will use IFTTT for color control of their LIFX bulbs.

LIFX Integrations - Connect Your Apps with IFTTT

You can either link it to a physical device or to a virtual switch. But that method does end up being the equivalent of a bunch of presets so it may not meet all your needs.

The IFTTT method is pretty simple to set up. But it can introduce some additional lag.

An alternative is to use Core. The setup is complex, but there are many community members who will be glad to help.

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 [image] The original version of CoRE Has now been replaced by a new version, WebCoRE, which moves the data entry to a web interface.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…