Lightify Gardenspot sale $27

[greg]

4/6 of sets arrived - installed 2 yesterday. Might gift the other 4, or keep for myself. Pretty happy with the color and brightness.

Now to make some automations!

[helios (Jim Archer)]

Looks like I missed it

Apparently they are about $68 normally.

[tommyincville]

Keep checking price can change hourly

[RLDreams (Really Living the Dream)]

Gentlemen,

Can those who have them installed outdoors comment on the following:

Span - based on the product information, looks like the overall length of the string is 9’. However, what’s the actual distance from first to last light?
Brightness - I’d like to use them to spotlight from bottom-up some flower beds and a birch tree. Are they suitable for that type of an application, or are they too dim?

Thanks!

Okay I got home earlier than anticipated ( I was not plan on having another heart attack and cancelling my trip ) . So here is a better shot, they are set at 60% , changing color every 5 minutes , using the Garden Hue app. I just happened to catch them in the middle of changing colors

[Navat604 (R.)]

Okay I got home earlier than anticipated ( I was not plan on having another heart attack and cancelling my trip ) . So here is a better shot, they are set at 60% , changing color every 5 minutes , using the Garden Hue app. I just happened to catch them in the middle of changing colors

If that’s just for Halloween. Post a picture of your Xmas decorations this December!

[Gorilla800lbs]

@RLDreams thank you!!

[Brad_Langhorst]

As others have said, keep an eye on these guys. They briefly dropped to $47 new a couple of days ago and I was able to buy a “Used - Like New” set from Amazon Warehouse deals for $25. I bought my original set on the $31 sale in July and my wife was shocked how great they look lining the patio under the willow and now encourages more of them.

[RLDreams (Really Living the Dream)]

@Navat604

If that’s just for Halloween. Post a picture of your Xmas decorations this December!

Ya, I got tired of having to decorate for each holiday, that’s why I put up the LED strips, Gardenspots, The path lights along the railing of ramp are BT speakers, etc etc. So now I don’t have to string lights, I just change the color scheme LOL.

2014

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2015

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Last year we earned a S & D complaint from Blake Shelton’s agent for copyright infringement LOL

[greg]

RIP Lemmy

[whoismoses (Eric)]

Has anyone confirmed the functionality differences / issues with the non-updated ones versus the updated ones?

I have 4, I have updated 1 and I can’t really see a difference in behavior.

[RLDreams (Really Living the Dream)]

@whoismoses

Has anyone confirmed the functionality differences / issues with the non-updated ones versus the updated ones?

I haven’t noticed any difference at all. Either with color/hue or stability. Of course that could simple be because I am controlling them with the outdated ST DTH.

[whoismoses (Eric)]

I was confused by all the DH talk, so I wrote my own using the new zigbee calls ST provides. I can’t easily replicate the random hue changing without an accompanying SmartApp, but I haven’t spent much time on it. I can get it to blink without a smart app and without using scheduling.

[RLDreams (Really Living the Dream)]

@whoismoses

I wrote my own

I haven’t ventured into trying to write my own anything.
Using the Garden Hue app I have been having issue with the sunrise sunset activation not working (of course that is ST, not the app’s fault) , Other issue is when it does deactivate it doesn’t actually turn off the lights, they just stop changing color. Yes if they happen to be off when it stops they are off, but more often than not they will just stay on at the last color.

Last night they ended on a blue. I deactivated the app and changed them all to dark orange. For whatever reason 2 of the 5 strings kept changing back to blue after a couple minutes. They were still showing as orange in the ST app though, even after refreshing the app.

[Dbhjed (David)]

I use Osram LIGHTIFY GardenSpot Mini rgb - AAP Version for my GardenSpot Device Handler, this allows for color loop (transition to set color over time), and exposes a Random Hue Property. Then I use the Random Hue Property in CoRE to change the color ever X minutes, and since the Color loop is enabled it transitions to the color over X seconds, it looks really nice.

I created a virtual switch to enable to color loop, I have SmartLighting Smart App turn the virtual switch on at sunset, I have a CoRE Piston that is subscribed to the virtual switch turning on, while the switch it on it checks every X minutes that the switch is still on, if it is it then executes the Random Hue property, I then have SmartLighting turn the virtual switch off at 11:00pm, CoRE then sees that and turns off the GardenSpots.

Osram LIGHTIFY GardenSpot Mini rgb - AAP Version:

Osram LIGHTIFY GardenSpot Minis rgb - aap version

Osram LIGHTIFY GardenSpot Mini rgb - AAP Version A new version of the DTH for Osram GardenSpot Mini rgb lights (based on @Sticks18’s version). This DTH is for directly connecting the US (Z HA) versions to SmartThings. Without the Osram Gateway, the color loop functionality does not work for the US version of the GardenSpots (at least until they update the firmware). But using the “hueLoop” and “hueRandom” attributes of this DTH, one create a CoRE Piston to cause color loop (even random colors) Device Tile contains sliders for individual control of hue, saturation, and transition time. Device Tile also contains buttons for (1) “hueLoop” (boolean “on” / “off” values) and (2) “Random Hue” (causes hue to change to a random color). Use these in CoRE to create color loop. You can find th…

CoRE:

[RELEASE CANDIDATE] CoRE (Community's own Rule Engine)

UPDATE DEC 19 2017: If you are still using CoRE, please update to the latest version as soon as you can. Here’s what changed: v0.3.16e.20171219 - RC - Replaced recovery safety nets using unschedule() with a much more optimized method that does not affect ST as much as unschedule() does This is important as CoRE has been identified as a major choke point on a certain method that it uses (ST describes that as expensive in their documentation. As it turns out, it is. With ST’s help, CoRE is now able to recover from timeouts much faster and with a lot less resources than by using its own recovery safety net. You should also consider moving on to webCoRE instead, as CoRE is no longer actively maintained and only gets critical updates. Thank you Continuing in the BETA process of CoRE (mil…

Here is my CoRE Piston:

[Billb1981 (Bill)]

Anyone get extra’s of these? I missed out, but could trade for a Philips Bloom light.

[dytkd (Diego Yong)]

they go on sale often, just gotta keep checking every day and checking the "from other sellers’ section. @Billb1981

[Murray1]

Gonna put my Gardenspot out front tomorrow in a flower/ plant bed. A few questions.
Could I just lay the power supply box on top of the mulch, or should I find a spot to attach to my siding (if I need to I’m assuming I could paint it to match the house)?
Looks like I’ll be a few lights short. Can you buy extensions without the power supply? Looks like the 3 light extension comes with a power supply.

[dshokouhi]

Can you buy extensions without the power supply? Looks like the 3 light extension comes with a power supply.

You can just buy another kit for $27 which has 9 lights. Each kit can be extended up to 18 lights. You will save $5 and get 6 more lights by not looking for those extensions

[RLDreams (Really Living the Dream)]

Gonna put my Gardenspot out front tomorrow in a flower/ plant bed. A few questions.
Could I just lay the power supply box on top of the mulch, or should I find a spot to attach to my siding (if I need to I’m assuming I could paint it to match the house)?
Looks like I’ll be a few lights short. Can you buy extensions without the power supply? Looks like the 3 light extension comes with a power supply.

There are holes in the power supply and control module have mounting holes. . I would not recommend just laying them on the ground, but that would depend on where you live.
You can get the 3 light extensions, but they DO NOT come with a power supply. When you can get the full sets for < $30 they are actually cheaper than the 3 light extension. You can use 2 of the 9 light strings on one power supply and control module without any problems.

[dytkd (Diego Yong)]

I agree. That’s what i did yesterday for my driveway, so now I have an extra power supply as a back up