Wireless on/off button for Lightify flex

[Kmacari (Ken Macari)]

For the cube that I use to control the colors of the lights, I used the method described in the following post:

A wooden cube that controls lighting [OBSOLETE]

I built a wooden cube that has a sensor inside that talks to the Mood Cube SmartApp to control my Hue bulbs. Each face has a colored wooden inlay (held in place by magnets) that tells you which color scene will be activated. Hidden behind two of the circles is the bolt that holds the cube together. It can be easily disassembled when I need to replace the batteries. Here’s a video: [Philips Hue controlled by wooden cube (and SmartThings)!] [image] Just thought I’d share. I can post photos of the build process if anyone is interested. EDIT: Added some photos of the process since a couple folks asked. Enjoy! The building blocks. I bought these online somewhere. [image] Glue and clamp. Each half (4 little cubes) were done separately. [image] Drill a hole for the Multi S…

I set it up with one side being ‘off’, then 5 colors on the other sides. I tried to get it to give me a ‘true’ soft white, but the app I used doesn’t seem to play well with anything but dimmer value and hue/saturation. A nice mod would be an enhancement to support color temp alone.

I’ll have to get snapshots of my CoRE routine (never done that yet), then I’ll post that for you. It’s still a little fluky, as the dimmer switch returns the flex lighting to it’s last value. If it was my normal soft white, all is good. If it was previously a color, I press and hold the dimmer switch…my CoRE routine looks for a change in dimmer value, then changes to soft white if it goes from anything to 100%. This is currently working fine, as I set the dimmer values for the cube to be less than 100%. (I’m sure as I get more use to CoRE, I’ll figure a better way to do this.)