Just trying to find out if anyone has a working hubitat driver similar to this ST custom driver. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gkl-sf/SmartThings/master/osram-bulb-HA.groovy. It has been a while since I used this, but it provided pulse, flash, and color loop features that would be nice to have on hubitat. I know many people are down on Sylvania lights, but the RT 5/6 full color lights have been on sale for $11 each on Amazon for a while now, and at least in my experience over the past year have much better reliability and color rendering than the A19s or BR30s. I don't know how to code or I would try to do this myself.
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@Ken_Fraleigh
I tried using that driver with Hubitat (just replacing physicalgraph with hubitat), but it doesn't work. Would be nice if it did.
I just replaced all of my Hues with OSRam bulbs... everything still works great with my Zigbee mesh. I'm going to take a stab at that driver and see what I can figure out with it. I use the flash feature for doorbell alerts, and I'd love to get that back.
Edit: The E27-base RGBW bulbs are/(were?) available for $5/each if you buy them in the 4-packs. Crazy good deal on those.
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I would love it for that, as well as for timers and alarm clocks. My kids on the other hand really like the color loop. I will warn you that the Osram A19 bulbs haven't been the greatest, but every bulb that has died has been replaced by Sylvania for free under the 2 year warranty. I have around 60 RGBWs with about 40 Sylvania and 20 Hue and my favorite ones are the Sylvania recessed can lights. I actually was able to get 3 of the Sylvania rgbw HO (commercial) lights with 5 year warranty for $20 each and they are amazingly bright, even at 6500K. I think it was an Amazon pricing error, because the price was back to $118 each a couple hours later.
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I had 3 hues die... Phillips was unwilling to replace them. Too many bad experiences with their platform. I'm happy to hear that Sylvania is good with their warranty 
That's one heck of a deal on the HO models! I wish I had a need for more of them, knowing that the other recessed lights are so inexpensive right now, too.
I'm tempted to buy a few for backup, but the wife would kill me. 
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Let me know if you come up with something. I can test it out on a few different lights to see if there are any bugs. It would also be great if it had a limit on dimming of 1-100. With the current drivers, if you dim up a lightify bulb too far on a button controller, it resets the bulb 
Thus I have them set to just go straight to 100 when holding down the up dimming button. I probably should have let someone know. I haven't run into any mentions of that on the forums. Great job on the CD btw.
Are you saying it's possible to set the brightness above 100% on the generic zigbee RGBW driver? I've never tried this, but I'll have to test that out.
Thanks Lots of work to be done there, still.
I’m not sure exactly what happens, but if I dim up when some bulbs are already at 100%, then Those bulbs flash and reset. They don’t get any brighter, and they have to be discovered again. Not awesome. More like it crashes the bulb firmware or something.
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It may be fixed now
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Never mind. It’s not fixed.
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What an emotional rollercoaster 
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Sorry. I thought it might have been fixed since I last tried.
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@adamkempenich any luck with this driver?
I must be pretty lucky, I've had nothing but success with the Osram RGBW bulbs. I think I'm up to 9 or 10 of them and they all seem rock solid. But I guess anything would seem good when compared to those horrible gen 1 GE bulbs that would get water inside the bulb, which is what I had before the Sylvania bulbs.
Getting the expanded features (pulse, flash, etc) working would be pretty rad!
Not gonna lie. I forgot all about it. Let me see if I can get something working in the next couple days
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The only issue I have with these is shutting off/on in groups—sometimes one of them won’t shut off/on. I just fire the off/on even twice in rules, now, and it’s not a problem
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I have the same issue and I never thought to fire the on/off command twice... I feel sheepish now. I’ve otherwise had good luck with these so far, too.
Maybe I will add in an option to the driver I’m porting for this send-twice feature 
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I haven’t had any issues with these since the firmware update released over the summer, which finally fixed the flashing when using ramp up. I have 9 of the rgbw A19s in a chandelier that work perfectly with zero popcorn using zgm. I used to do all kinds of BS to get these to work right, but I have eliminated all of that. I use color prestaging with a rule that changes the CT of around 50 of these 8 times during the day. It commands up to 8 individual bulbs at a time with 30sec pauses between when the lights are off, or sends the CT command via group messaging if the lights are on. I use setlevel mostly for turning on with button devices or motion/contact sensors. The Sengled driver works with these for level prestaging, but it ramps down to off, which is a PIA, so I am using the generic driver that ramps down without turning the lights off.
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