How do I change colors on an RGB bulb?

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Hello, I just bought a Hubitat and some Sengled bulbs. One of the bulbs are an RGBW Color Plus. I was able to pair the bulb without any issues. However, I can't figure out how to change the color on the bulb. The only thing I can do is change the brightness and temperature. I've tried using Hex values and color names. I've searched through the forums and I can't find anything.

What am I doing wrong here?

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For rgbw bulbs currently use the setHue and setSaturation commands in the driver. setColor requires a map parameter [hue:<0..100>,saturation:<0..100>] and optionally level:<1..100>
setColor by color name or hex value are currently not supported.

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Are you using the correct driver for these color bulbs? I have the Sengled Element Color Plus bulbs working perfectly using the built-in 'Generic Zigbee RGBW Light' driver.

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I was able to change the colors using Hue/Saturation as @mike.maxwell suggested . Like I said, I'm new to Hubitat. Literally have only spent an hour with it, if that. I'm currently using Home Assistant. I guess I was expecting something a little more user friendly on the front end with a color picker or something like that. They are probably working towards al that since it's still fairly new.

Thanks for the help with it.

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I created a fairly simple userscript for TamperMonkey to make it easier to select the color for my RGB bulb. It's not perfect by any means--it's the first userscript I've written in many many years. I have no idea if it's following best practices or anything of the sort. I just know it's working for me :slight_smile:

If anyone's interested, I created a gist for it at Simple userscript to make it easier to set the color for RGB bulbs using Hubitat. · GitHub

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Hey this is awesome! I had no idea such things were possible. How does one go about installing this script?

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Not to out you or anything, but how about a friendlier username? Maybe @codekoala ?

If you contact @bobbyD , he can change it for you.

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I was wondering how to go about changing that! I'll reach out to @bobbyD. Thanks!

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I'm glad this seems useful to others! You should be able to install the TamperMonkey (or similar) extension for your browser, click the TamperMonkey icon in your toolbar, click "Create a new script...", then copy/paste that script into it. Once it's added to your TamperMonkey and enabled, it should automatically add the color picker near any COLOR_MAP field when editing a device.

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Thank you - works like a charm!

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Huzzah!

I should also mention that the picker gives a lot more options than it probably makes sense to offer. I'm considering switching to something like Colorpickle - The ultimate jQuery color picker plugin instead. They have a demo that's specifically for HSL, which would probably make more sense.

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Very nice! Thanks

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