OSRAM RGBW Bulbs Group & Virtual Control

[bturcotte (Bryan)]

Great addition! I have several Osram Flex Strips and grouping them together works great. Thanks!

[dnoyeb]

So, using this app I can control my BR30 style RGB bulbs from the virtual app, no problem; so THANKS. However; weird issue i’m seeing is when trying to change the color form something like a Google Home; it can change the color 1 time from the google home; and then it doesn’t anymore. If you change the color via the app, you can then again change it via the google home…

When controlling the lights individually from google home; you can change the color as much as wanted… So not sure where the issues lies. Just getting into this stuff; but is there a log anywhere I can look into for errors with the code?

[refurbishedtoaster (Cole Larsen)]

I had the exact same issue so I switched to using the trend setter smart app to control my group. They work great now.

[Snakedog116 (Kris)]

Can you perhaps post the link to the app you are using?

Thanks

[refurbishedtoaster (Cole Larsen)]

Here you go.

[OBSOLETE] Trend Setter

Trend Setter - A SmartApp for grouping devices Read First I am not usually one for releasing stuff I write because I am my own worst critic and usually self destruct before putting anything out into the general public (I’ve revised this post more times than I’d like to count). I am trying to change that behaviour… Although I am a software engineer by trade, I am not a Java/Groovy developer so I may not have written some of the code in the most efficient way. I expect this to change from feedback and as my knowledge grows. I tend to find I use the app to control a lot of things more than anything else so this is useful for that. I have only used this on an Android phone and can’t be sure how it’ll behave on an iOS device due to the parity issues between Android and iOS apps so give no g…

[Snakedog116 (Kris)]

Thanks. From what I’m reading it’s not quite what I’m looking for. That’s a great app to control multiple devices at a time, but unfortunately it doesn’t work for door sensors. It’s designed for lights and stuff like that.

[Snakedog116 (Kris)]

I’ve been recommended to use CORE logic for this in another thread. I’m going to give it a try:

Multiple Sensors - Merge into a single virtual sensor

You could create a virtual switch to simulate a virtual contact sensor and in rontalley’s example, that’s what would be turned off/on in the logic. Aside from that, you can use CoRE in different way from rontalley’s example to accomplish the same thing. For example, I have 3 motion sensors in my office which control one of the lights. My CoRE logic says that if any of the 3 see motion, the light comes on. The logic states that when ALL show no motion, wait 2 minutes and then turn off the lights if no additional motion is detected in that 2 minute timeframe. So basically, with CoRE logic, I’ve created a virtual motion sensor using 3 separate physical motion sensors. If you’re having reliability issues with these contact sensors, I’d make sure they have solid connectivity to the hub (…

[thing1nthing2]

Does anyone know if this virtual switch like app works with Osram Lightify’s Dimmable Tunable White light bulbs found here?

I’d really like to tune them to a specific color temperature with a click of a button since the color resets to yellow if the physical like switch is turned off.

thanks

EDIT: I think i found it here – [UPDATED] Osram Lightify RGBW A19/BR30 US version (HA) DTH

[bane9900]

I was experiencing this as well, I changed setColor to the following and it seems to have fixed it for me.

def setColor(value){
//log.debug “setColor(${value})”
// stupid hack to set the state the first time this device is used. Won’t select a color other than #FFFFFF without it.
sendEvent(name: “color”, value: value, data: value)
}

[Nova5]

Nice, Just pasted this into my system and got it running last night. Well done. Can use google home to command the colors and whites (Incandesent, Moonlight, Daylight…).