Turning on lights at specified %?

[Slotown (Jeffrey Bittel)]

Hi, I have been trying to figure out a routine to turn on lights at a specified % level and between 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM.

Basically, this is for my bathroom so I can have a nightlight capability. Eventually, I would also like to tie this to a motion sensor so it only turns on during this time when I enter the bathroom and then turns back off.

Any suggestions?

[Dodohh (Dominik)]

Very easy. Just use the Smartapp Smart Lightning - everything build in what you want. Using it the same way you want at home for my bathroom (Marketplace -SmartThings Recommends - Smart Lighning)

Cheers

[JDRoberts]

How to create lighting automations with Smart Lights

[bradlee_s]

Is there a “SmartLighting” that will allow more control than 10% increments?

[tpip]

Use WebCoRE. You can set the level to anything you want.

[JohnHoke (John P. Hoke)]

webCoRE Community Forum

Also, if you REALLY want to get a bit crazy with the customization, check out the Rooms Occupancy Smart App

[Migrated to Custom Capabilities] Rooms Manager: Smarter Rooms: Personalized rules based home automation with rooms Occupancy sensing from devices you already have in your home

 Rooms Occupancy and Rooms Manager While ST has a concept of rooms it is essentially a grouping mechanism which does not enable personalized automation. In contrast rooms occupancy considers the room as a meta device and automates common tasks associated with a “room” physical or virtual. What makes it really useful is not just the room's occupancy state but the ability to manage automation for rooms in a set of rules for the room based on the occupancy state of the room and data from various sensors. When creating a room device through the smartapp you are able to create these rules for the rooms making your rooms really smart. What these rules enable is many common tasks around rooms which most users go through automating at some point. Us…

This smartapp has made my brain hurt, but once I got over the pain it is insane how specific you can get

[Slotown (Jeffrey Bittel)]

Perfect. Answers some other questions as well. I did not know that “Smart Lights” existed.

[JDRoberts]

@Slotown

Perfect. Answers some other questions as well. I did not know that “Smart Lights” existed.

This might be of interest as well:

A Short Intro to Scheduling/Device Control/Rules in SmartThings Classic

(March 2018: All of the following applies only to the SmartThings Classic app. If you purchased your hub after March 1, 2018 and are using the new “SmartThings (Samsung Connect)” app, creating rules works differently.) You’ve got your hub. You’ve got some devices. Now how do you schedule what happens when? SmartThings doesn’t have a rules engine/scheduler, so there’s no one tutorial for how to do this. But it’s an open platform, and there are about 12 different ways to set up various kinds of schedules. Some require custom code, some don’t. A “scheduler” in this context is anything that causes a networked device to perform an action, even if it’s just to toggle on or off immediately. (Network engineering definition, forgive me. ) (Note: as of April 2017, the original author of …

[Slotown (Jeffrey Bittel)]

JD, thanks. I’ll probably re-read the primer several more times…

[bradlee_s]

I want to set my lights at 1% by button press with local processing.

[tpip]

WebCoRE will let you set you lights to 1% or any other level you desire.

I currently have a WebCoRE piston that turns on my bedroom light to 1% when the good morning routine runs. Other lights on that routine turn on at the lowest setting in ST routines, which is 10%.

[bradlee_s]

WebCoRE isn’t local.

[WB70]

@bradlee_s

I want to set my lights at 1% by button press with local processing.

The answer to this request would be “you can’t”.

Your best option is webCoRE which is going to be cloud based, but will allow you to set whatever percentage you want.

The only thing that you can build any Automations for in SmartThings directly and have them locally processed is Smart Lighting and that restricts you to the 10%.

[tpip]

You’re right it’s not local & I never said it was.

ST uses cloud commands.

[bradlee_s]

You didn’t. But you responded to me specifically asking for something that would do this locally.

Anyway, I’ll just settle for 10% for now.

[WB70]

@bradlee_s

Anyway, I’ll just settle for 10% for now.

Pros and Cons to all of it within the ST world.

Personally, if you can get away with 10%, use Smart Lighting as this gives you a backup plan in certain downtime situations with the ability to still control lights within SmartThings via your Smart Lighting rules.

Just remember that when using Smart Lighting rules, ALL devices within the rule must be LOCAL Devices. If you setup a rule when Motion is detected that turns on a light, the Motion Sensor must be a device type that is local as well as the light (bulb) that you are turning on. If any device in Smart Lighting shows as Cloud in IDE under your devices, that Smart Lighting rule will be processed via the cloud.