@infofiend thank you very much for your help.
With looking at your piston I was able to come up with this.
So now if I adjust any setting on the one set of lights it is copied to the other.
Very much appreciated. This whole CORE thing still kicks my butt.
Happy to help, Don. Glad you got it working!
Now tonight, I have to figure out how to add in a way for it follow the on / off of the primary set. Keeping it all in one CoRE rule?
Instead of using setRandomHue, you can always use setHue($randomHue) on a group of lights, they will all go to the same color. When adding the task, scroll down to find the full circle Set hue (variable) task. That will then prompt you for a variable, scroll down and select $randomHue from the list.
Using device1, device2, device3...
> Set hue to $randomHue°
The same random hue will be applied to all selected devices.
Trying to replicate this and do not know how to do he if then statements. Can you help me out?
I figured it out, but another question, how did you set the “immediately”?
@bamarayne I am trying to replicate @ady624 holiday but modify it to work for me and I am wondering if either of you can help since you have been great helping me before and others.
If default variable, I would like my patio, porch and deck lights to come on from 30 minutes before sunset and stay on to 30 minut a after sunrise.
If lights variable, I would like only my patio and deck lights to come on 30 minutes before sunset and stay on till 30 minutes after sunrise, but also would like my GE outdoor switch controlling my Christmas lights to turn on 30 minutes before sunset and stay on till 11:00 PM. After 11:00 through 30 minutes after sunrise. I would also like my driveway motion and porch motion to turn on my porch light if motion is detected. This should only happen from thanksgiving through 12/31 except 12/24 & 12/25.
Finally, the last variable would be Christmas. For it would like everything to work like the lights variable above except the lights to stay on till 30 minutes after sunrise and the porch light would only come on if the two motion dectors pick up motion.
Does this work with a osram lightify BR30 bulb?
I created a virtual switch called ‘Christmas’ and created a piston ‘christmas color change’ as detailed above. When I go to the switch in ST app this piston shows up under the smartapp section of the switch.
But the bulb does not respond when I turn on the switch.
Any info on what I need to rectify?
You will want to use this Device Handler for BR30
The GardenSpots don’t have a White LED and can’t do tunable whites well.
I am using an A19 for the Piston and it works well.
So installed the BR30 DTH and it works very well for controlling the bulb using the device controls in ST…
I still cant figure our how to activate the piston I created to alternate between two colors every minute. I have the piston showing up under the virtual switch I called ‘christmas’ but it does not turn on. How do I post a picture of the piston?
Apologies for these newbie questions but I just playing with CoRE recently.
Thanks
on the Core Dash Board there is an camera icon once you click on the piston.
Here is my Piston
If that doesn’t help, let’s move this CoRE convo over to the CoRE Help thread.
So here is the piston ‘christmas color change’ I created as per the halloween example above. It doesn’t fire when I use the virtual switch ‘christmas’. I have installed the BR30 DTH for the bulb mentioned above and that works fine on its own.
What am I doing wrong please?!
The way you currently have it setup, it is running all the commands at once, Also what is the time restriction doing?
These screen shots might help
Thanks! This is working well now.
I have a variable that’s not to predictable.(The wife). I have my lights running using
^set RandomHue()
Follow up with piston Garden Spots Random after 15 sec.
All is well untill she wants a constant color on the lights. I don’t know how to find the
hueLoop is on, like others have so I can’t just press the Hue Loop Button to off. So as of now I just pause the core routine and pick a color for her. This is quite a few steps to do.
Could someone tell me where to find the hueLoop as in
If
Garden Spots Lights Hue Loop is
On/off
I can only see Add a condition.
I have tried under simple mode I think every area and I’m now lost on how to do it.
You can use sethue(variable) as ady626 had mentioned in post #225.
So I am having the same issue that a few have mentioned in the comments above.
v1 works
v1.1 turns on/off
v1.2b doesn’t work at all
v1.3 turns on/off
any luck tracking why this is effecting only a few of us?
Contact smartthings support via chat tomorrow. There is a setting they have to change in their side. I just went through this a few days ago. Was done and working in less than 5 minutes.
Really?!? That’s so weird - and so good to hear, because I had no freaking idea…
I have no idea what they do on their end, but you would think they could do some type of fix so you we wouldn’t have to contact them. It is very odd but I’m not it is nothing more then contacting support.
when i contact them, what exactly should I say to get the setting changed?
and btw thanks for the info will try to act upon it and report what happens quickly.
