femwitjava
February 3, 2017, 4:30pm
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There is an app by @Triosinal that is able to include both white tunable (Ksclae) and COLOR light bulbs, using VS to control - I love this app! Very easy to set up / intuitive
I very recently purchased the SmartThings hub with the intention of controlling several color temperature bulbs in the living room. It works pretty well, except syncing the bulbs together was a pain; I tried “Dim with Me,” but it didn’t control color temperature (I wanted the ability to have cooler light when the lights were on full, and warmer light when set to ‘movie dim’ mode).
So, I wrote this up (note: I am not a java/groovy developer by trade; the code I write for work is all visual block programming. This is probably really poorly coded, but it works). This SmartApp takes as an input anywhere from 1 to 5 switches. Honestly, I don’t know why you’d ever use just 1…but anyways, you can set individual color temperature, color, and dim levels for the selected bulb(s) based on which swit…
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