When you turn them off, how are you doing that? Just via ST? Is this Hub V2?
Definitely real strange. The CR app checks the bulb state before adjusting the level, and it won’t adjust the level if the bulb is off. (Of course, if a bulb is off and a setlevel gets sent to it, that will turn it back on).
Maybe we can debug together live. Which model bulbs is this happening on?
I’ve tried turning off with both the SmartThings app and the Hue app. Hue seemed more reliable in terms of bulbs staying off, but that’s purely empirical and I prefer using ST.
Both my SmartThings Hub and my Hue hub are v2.
I’d be happy to do anything I can to help debug. I don’t want you to have to spend a whole lot of time on it if it’s only me with the issue, but this is actually the number one reason for me getting Hue bulbs. I have first and second gen A19s, BR30s, GU10s, Hue Lightstrip Plus’, and a Hue Go. It seems to happen on all of them. I also have Hue Luxs and Hue Whites, but they aren’t selected in the SmartApp.
Thanks for all your hard work Kristopher. I just installed the smartapp and have a couple suggestions.
The prompt reads "Control these bulbs…"
It might reduce questions on the forum if the prompt were "Control these bulbs; Select each bulb only once"
Then rearrange the three drop down boxes so that they are in order of preference - Temp, Color, then Dimmer (per @Sticks18 suggestion).
The prompt reads “Enable dynamic brightness instead of constant brightness” then suggests “YES or NO” but the box is populated with “ON or OFF”.
The suggested options should read “Dynamic” or “Constant (default)” and the drop down box should have matching entries.
Finally, the last prompt read asks a Yes or no question and again the drop down box gives the options of ON or OFF. Like the previous it would be nice to see the suggestions and the box match with the two choices being “Campfire” or “Moonlight (default)”
Thanks again for your work on the app and the support you’re providing here on the forum, I’m looking forward to trying it out!
These are excellent recommendations. I will patch them in this week!
Hi,
I’ve been enjoying using Circadian Daylight with my Osram Lightify tunable white bulbs, but I recently picked up one of the RGBW bulbs that they brought to the US, and It’s not working well with Circadian Daylight. The app seems to be setting the bulb to a greenish tint when I think it ought to be a warm white (i.e. in the evening).
I set the bulb to the “ZigBee RGBW Bulb” device handler, which I believe is the recommended option according to an ST person in the Osram Lightify forum thread.
I updated the Smart App to the latest code I found on your Github, but that hasn’t changed the behavior. I have the bulb selected under the color changing bulb section. I have a sleep mode set (but ST is not in that mode right now). The three override settings are all set to off.
I can adjust to say, 2700K, using the slider in the Thing page in ST, and it looks right, but as soon as Circadian Daylight runs (if it is set to adjust this bulb) it changes to this greenish color.
I am not sure if the issue is with the app or the device handler, but I’d appreciate any advice you have.
Thanks,
Tamara
Select the bulb under Color Temperature bulbs instead of under color changing. Since the bulb can accept color temp directly, that’s the best way to implement it in this app. Once you do that you should see the same great white shade as when you select 2700k from the slider.
Whoops, didn’t see this reply until now. Thanks! I would not have thought of that. I did make the change. It seems to work. When I selected the bulb as temperature changing, it was already set to warm white, but I changed the temperature to something cooler and then ran Circadian Daylight again and it changed to warm white, so it seems to be working!
I guess it didn’t occur to me that a bulb could be both temperature adjustable and color changing, though in retrospect it seems obvious, since ST has controls for both in this bulb’s page. And since Circadian Daylight itself doesn’t actually use other colors besides various temperatures of white, I shouldn’t be missing out on anything.
Thanks again!
Hey @Kristopher Ive been following the changes in github but sometimes is hard to keep up. Was wondering if you’d be interested in enabling the github/ide integration for quick updates. I can walk you through to set up the directory, if you’d like.
Already set up!
Oh yeah. My bad! I didn’t even try…
Hi All -
I appreciate all the hard work and time dedicated by folks interested in this project. Unfortunately after much deliberation I will not be supporting this on ST going forward.
Kristopher
I spoke to Kristopher and I’m going to be taking over this project going forward. I’m probably going to start a new thread (unless I can take over the first post of this thread @slagle @jody.albritton).
In my fork I already have special CD integration with a custom Hue handler I’ve been working on. It will add buttons to enable/disable CD features directly in a light, or through custom commands (i.e. Rule Machine, RIP.) This is all optional, obviously. I’ve been holding off the last few weeks waiting for the platform to stabilize and for Hue issues to be resolved, but I will release everything ASAP.
More details to follow!
@Kristopher do approve the ownership change for the OP?
Yes - go ahead
oooph, i bought my hardware specifically interested in this app. hope its back online soon.
I did too, which is why I wanted to continue supporting it. For some reason I didn’t get notifications off the previous two replies, so I didn’t realize stuff was already taken care of on the forum side.
The circulator on my boiler went out last weekend, and while I have to work on plumbing to fix it I decided to also change its location, add 4 zones, etc, so I’ve been a bit tied up with that and trying to keep from falling behind too much with yard work.
I’m going to update this ASAP!
I have updated the first post with a link to my GitHub repository for this SmartApp. If you would like to continue using GitHub integration with the IDE, I would highly suggest removing your existing Circadian Daylight installation(s), removing the Smart App from the IDE, and removing Kristopher’s repository before re-adding everything from my repository.
I changed the namespace to make it easier to identify versions going forward. For the same reason, I also changed the app icon - hope everyone likes it! I also bumped the version number to 3.0.
Other than the changes mentioned above, the code is exactly the same as that in the claytonjn-DH branch of Kristopher’s repository.
Please let me know if you have any issues, and again, a huge thanks to Kristopher for letting me take over this project. I know the license allows anyone to pretty much do anything with his code, but I feel much better about it knowing I have his approval.
I changed my Hue and LIFX degice handlers to allow color temperature and brightness to be set even when the bulbs are off. With that I also modified CD so that it updates all the bulbs hourly instead of everytime a light was turned on etc. Works well for me.
Is there a way to use this without it modifying my brightness? Like the concept but I don’t want it to touch my dimming levels. I have rules to set my own brightness levels but this seems to constantly fight my settings.
Absolutely! Make sure dynamic brightness is off (which is the default setting) and that override night time dimming is turned on.