[OBSOLETE] LIFX Groups

Cullen_Patel · April 29, 2016, 12:06pm

I really don’t think it was your code. I only used your device handler for my dining room to test and it is the only group I really want to work more elegantly. Mission accomplished by the way… The issue is happening for me with the default device handler for my other bulbs. Plus I see that you have added the proper range for the temperature values.

whoismoses · July 2, 2016, 5:48am

@AdamV - This is working great for me. I have a lot of LIFX bulbs. Setup in my dining room. Works perfect except that that dimmer slider is always 0, even after I hit refresh. I don’t mind though. I don’t do much dimming in the app.

whoismoses · July 2, 2016, 6:00pm

@AdamV - It turns out I wanted the mobile UI to work for me. I spent a little time tweaking it for my needs. I fixed the dimmer issue.

tiles {
multiAttributeTile(name:“switch”, type: “lighting”, width: 6, height: 4, canChangeIcon: true){
tileAttribute (“device.switch”, key: “PRIMARY_CONTROL”) {
attributeState “on”, label:’${name}’, action:“switch.off”, icon:“http://hosted.lifx.co/smartthings/v1/196xOn.png”, backgroundColor:"#79b821", nextState:“turningOff"
attributeState “off”, label:’${name}’, action:“switch.on”, icon:“http://hosted.lifx.co/smartthings/v1/196xOff.png”, backgroundColor:”#ffffff", nextState:“turningOn"
attributeState “turningOn”, label:’${name}’, action:“switch.off”, icon:“http://hosted.lifx.co/smartthings/v1/196xOn.png”, backgroundColor:”#fffA62", nextState:“turningOff"
attributeState “turningOff”, label:’${name}’, action:“switch.on”, icon:“http://hosted.lifx.co/smartthings/v1/196xOff.png”, backgroundColor:”#fffA62", nextState:“turningOn”
}
}

    valueTile("Brightness", "device.level", width: 2, height: 1) {
    	state "level", label: 'Brightness ${currentValue}%'
    }
    
    controlTile("levelSliderControl", "device.level", "slider", width: 4, height: 1) {
    	state "level", action:"switch level.setLevel"
    }

    standardTile("refresh", "device.switch", inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat") {
		state "default", label:"", action:"refresh.refresh", icon:"st.secondary.refresh"
	}
    
    valueTile("colorName", "device.colorName", height: 2, width: 4, inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat") {
        state "colorName", label: '${currentValue}'
    }
    
    valueTile("colorTemp", "device.colorTemperature", inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat", height: 1, width: 2) {
		state "colorTemp", label: '${currentValue}K'
	}
    
	controlTile("colorTempSliderControl", "device.colorTemperature", "slider", height: 1, width: 4, inactiveLabel: false, range:"(2700..9000)") {
		state "colorTemp", action:"color temperature.setColorTemperature"
	}
    
    controlTile("rgbSelector", "device.color", "color", height: 6, width: 6, inactiveLabel: false) {
        state "color", action:"setAdjustedColor"
    }
    
    /*controlTile("colorName", "device.colorName", "button", height: 2, width: 4, inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat") {
        state "colorName", label: 'Color ${currentValue}', action: "color temperature.setColorTemperature"
    }
    
    standardTile("refresh", "device.switch", width: 2, height: 2, inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat") {
        state "default", label:"", action:"refresh.refresh", icon:"st.secondary.refresh"
    }*/

    main(["switch"])
    //details(["switch", "Brightness", "levelSliderControl", "colorTemp", "colorTempSliderControl", "rgbSelector", "colorName", "refresh"])
    details(["switch", "Brightness", "levelSliderControl", "colorTemp", "colorTempSliderControl", "rgbSelector"])
}

whoismoses · July 3, 2016, 12:38am

@AdamV or anyone else… I have an issue with the “SLIDER_CONTROL”, it doesn’t get a value set unless you adjust the temperature or color. Still working on it, but if anyone wants to take a look…

https://github.com/ericvitale/other/blob/master/devicetypes/lifx/lifx-group.src/lifx-group.groovy

whoismoses · July 3, 2016, 2:23am

Ok, this works. I had to remove the double from the setLevel method parameters.

For personal use, I removed the “version” from the title.

https://github.com/ericvitale/other/blob/master/devicetypes/lifx/lifx-group.src/lifx-group.groovy

stephack · July 4, 2016, 7:40pm

Adam, thank you for this handler. I’ve always been a bit annoyed by ST’s handling of grouping lights. So far appears to be working great. One request, if it’s possible. Is there a way to have your handler or even the “Lifx Connect” poll the status of the bulbs after an interval? If I turn on or off my lights using anything but smartthings it never refreshes in ST. Really annoying, especially when using SmartTiles.

whoismoses · July 4, 2016, 9:08pm

@stephack - I haven’t seen @AdamV post on this thread in a while. I created a new device handler called LIFX groups of groups. It allows you to do a single group or multiple groups. It also doesn’t require you to know the group id, just the name like “Kitchen” or “Office”. My device handler kind of does what you want when some of the lights are on/off or you use another app to turn them on or off. Right now you have to hit refresh. Working on this tonight to make it so you don’t have to. It might already do it, I just didn’t test the time for the poll refresh.

github.com

ericvitale/ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups/blob/master/README.md

# ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups

## Summary
LIFX Group of Groups (LGoG) allows you to create a "virtual" device based on a single LIFX group or a set of LIFX groups.  

Example 1: If you have a group called "Kitchen" and a group called "Dining Room", you can create a group of groups called "First Floor" (or whatever) and add the two LIFX groups to it. You can treat the two groups as a single device. This handles up to 10 groups per device.

Example 2: If you have a single group within the LIFX called "Kitchen" you can add it and control your set of lights as a single device called, you guessed it "Kitchen" (or whatever else).

This device handler also supports scenes, see the preferences section below.

## This device handler supports
1. On / Off
2. Setting Color
3. Setting Color Temperature
4. Setting Brightness
5. Syncing Between Groups [Must have companion app installed](https://github.com/ericvitale/ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups/blob/master/smartapps/ericvitale/lifx-sync.src/lifx-sync.groovy)
7. 1 to 10 groups as a single device

## Installation via GitHub Integration

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stephack · July 5, 2016, 1:05pm

Great…thank you. I’ll check out your handler later today and look forward to any updates you can make. Hopefully it has a decent polling rate already. This is why I love the ST community.

whoismoses · July 5, 2016, 1:23pm

I tested it out last night (meaning payed attention to it). It doesn’t refresh correctly. I have stated another thread asking for some help / feedback.

stephack · July 6, 2016, 8:29pm

No help from the community thus far I guess.
Let me know if you come across anyway to get this working. If not, thanks anyway.

whoismoses · July 6, 2016, 9:03pm

Well, I am actively trying to figure this problem out because I use it everyday. I’m not giving up.

github.com

ericvitale/ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups/blob/master/README.md

# ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups

## Summary
LIFX Group of Groups (LGoG) allows you to create a "virtual" device based on a single LIFX group or a set of LIFX groups.  

Example 1: If you have a group called "Kitchen" and a group called "Dining Room", you can create a group of groups called "First Floor" (or whatever) and add the two LIFX groups to it. You can treat the two groups as a single device. This handles up to 10 groups per device.

Example 2: If you have a single group within the LIFX called "Kitchen" you can add it and control your set of lights as a single device called, you guessed it "Kitchen" (or whatever else).

This device handler also supports scenes, see the preferences section below.

## This device handler supports
1. On / Off
2. Setting Color
3. Setting Color Temperature
4. Setting Brightness
5. Syncing Between Groups [Must have companion app installed](https://github.com/ericvitale/ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups/blob/master/smartapps/ericvitale/lifx-sync.src/lifx-sync.groovy)
7. 1 to 10 groups as a single device

## Installation via GitHub Integration

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AdamV · July 10, 2016, 1:40am

Hey guys - sorry for the silence… I’ve been away.

Re: Group of groups … this looks great. I live in a flat so I guess I never thought of that! Regarding grouping of devices in general, there is an exceptional app out there called “Trend Setter” by @Kriskit which can group together and sync up all kinds of devices (not just lights), and make new group devices for them in your smartthings setup. Check it out! I’ve been using it for about 6 months with few issues

Re: refreshing - have you tried pollster?

whoismoses · July 10, 2016, 1:48am

@AdamV - I was using Trend Setter. Unfortunately I have a lot of lights and it took too long for Trend Setter to turn them on 1 by 1. For groups of group I used their API to send a list of groups and they all turn on instantly.

BTW - I’ve added a background refresh option that the user can set on the device so that if you use the LIFX app, SmartThings will eventually keep up based on how frequently you poll their servers. According to LIFX you can make 216K requests per day (60 per minute). With the settings I use I only do about 288 (every 20 minutes). Could do more I guess…

AdamV · July 10, 2016, 1:58am

That’s very nice!

Also thanks for solving the initial level bug - I spent ages on that when i first did this and got nowhere

If you fancy taking on and iterating the main LIFX Groups code or amalgamating it all into one base please feel free to do so - and I’ll share the Github with you so you can put it all in one place.

From my perspective, I’ve got it all working as I’d like in my place (although I’d prefer to be using the local UDP protocol… but that’s not possible at present). However I can see how a lot of your iterations and improvements could make this considerably better going forward… so if you wanna take this on… it’s all yours… let me know!

stephack · July 13, 2016, 10:02pm

Looks promising…how do I add this to my current device type.

whoismoses · July 13, 2016, 10:36pm

Instructions on my ReadMe.

github.com

ericvitale/ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups/blob/master/README.md

# ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups

## Summary
LIFX Group of Groups (LGoG) allows you to create a "virtual" device based on a single LIFX group or a set of LIFX groups.  

Example 1: If you have a group called "Kitchen" and a group called "Dining Room", you can create a group of groups called "First Floor" (or whatever) and add the two LIFX groups to it. You can treat the two groups as a single device. This handles up to 10 groups per device.

Example 2: If you have a single group within the LIFX called "Kitchen" you can add it and control your set of lights as a single device called, you guessed it "Kitchen" (or whatever else).

This device handler also supports scenes, see the preferences section below.

## This device handler supports
1. On / Off
2. Setting Color
3. Setting Color Temperature
4. Setting Brightness
5. Syncing Between Groups [Must have companion app installed](https://github.com/ericvitale/ST-LIFX-Group-of-Groups/blob/master/smartapps/ericvitale/lifx-sync.src/lifx-sync.groovy)
7. 1 to 10 groups as a single device

## Installation via GitHub Integration

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stephack · July 14, 2016, 6:45pm

I already have the device handler installed and functional. I just need to know how to configure the polling schedule you described and pictured above. I even reloaded the code from:

but i still dont see the option for scheduling.

whoismoses · July 14, 2016, 8:51pm

Go into the detailed view of the device on your phone. It will look like this but with a different name.

Hit the gear icon on the top right.

Scroll down to the bottom of the settings. Its a long way down.

It isn’t perfect but it works. LIFX allows 200,000+ requests per day. Setting them to 5 minutes takes only 288 requests.

stephack · July 15, 2016, 9:56pm

I understand your instructions but when I scroll to the bottom of the settings page I have Group 10, Log Level and then the remove button. There is no schedule section as pictured. I don’t believe I am running the same updated code that you are. Please see the link I referenced in my previous post. Is this the correct code for the device handler you are currently using? If not, please post a direct link. It might also be a good idea to use version numbers and a brief description of whats changed since the last version in the comments at the top of your code. This would help us know if we are using new or outdated code.

whoismoses · July 16, 2016, 1:01am

I added version numbers and committed BUT… The version with the auto refresh capability has been in github since 07/09/2016, you can look at the history. Make sure you are updating correctly from GitHub. BTW, mind taking this conversation over to the device handler’s thread?

[RELEASE][UPDATED] LIFX Group of Groups Community Created Device Types

##LIFX Group of Groups (LGoG) provides the following capabilities through a device handler and an optional companion application (LIFX Sync): Control a Group of LIFX Bulbs as a Single Device (Note: LGoG does not sync your bulbs, it communicates directly with LIFX to control them as a single group. This way you will see all of the lights change at the same time, not one by one. )This capability is the primary reason I created LGoG. By default, using the LIFX (Connect) app that comes with SmartThings all of your light bulbs will get added to SmartThings. If you have 1 bulb, this is likely just fine for you, however if you have many bulb, specifically bulbs you would like to control as a single device you are out of luck. Before LGoG you had to either download a SmartApp that would watch you…

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