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Today my wife asked me a question,

what would these paint color swatches look like under the actual lighting in this room... at different temperatures. (She discovered adaptive lighting). :flushed:

BACK-STORY. (Goto the QUESTION if you don't care)

So I just went into, Apple Home to grab all the Hue lights in the room and set them to 3000K then 3500K, then 4000K, then 5000K. Not possible, there is not a place to be specific with a number only drag your finger around on a color wheel. So then I looked at other Apple iOS apps, and they all seem to be designed by the same "right brain people", lots of "fun stuff", but no "practical value"...

So then I went into Hubitat, look I can actually set a definitive color! How exciting!

BUT now the let down... I have to select each. bulb separately and do so one series of 5 clicks and 2 scrolls at a time. And with 7 lights in a room... thats 35 clicks and 14 scrolls multiplied by 4 color temperatures... Now I have to spend significant time, and create 4 scenes to be able to toggle through the options, and this is only applicable to one room.

I have at least 10 rooms in my house with Colored Lighting, I hope she does not want to paint these room different colors...

Now I am starting sadly to wonder "why does no one think like me"... :upside_down_face:

QUESTION
So anyway, here actually is what I'd like to be able to do:

  1. Build named colors that I make up (like tungsten or whatever) that can be stored and can be applied to any colored light that I add to my Hubitat controller via whatever device integration?
  2. Randomly select a number of bulbs in a room, or just ALL colored bulbs in a room (by selecting the room), and filter/select/bulk edit/control them, and apply one of those saved colors?

-OR- Can I already accomplish this, and I'm just not seeing it? And, If SO, How?

-OR- when are we going to get AI built into this thing where I can... just say to it...

"Change all the colored lights in this room to 4000K" and it just figure out what is in the room that it can work with that support that functionality and then just do it for me one light at a time, very fast?

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Not quite what you are talking but, i have a tool call "LightEffect tools". It was designed with the intent of enabling similar effects across selected devices it has two parts. One is to automate light effect changes. The second part allows you to group devices and control them all at the same time.

So you could use that tool and group your rooms together. Then use the child light device created for the group to switch between Color Temps. The child device allows you to control all of the standard light capabilities across all associated devices. A little setup to define the groups, but should make changing everything easier after that.

There is also the Group & scenes built in app. It looks like it will do pretty much the same as my app, with maybe a few small limitations. For CT changes though i would expect it to be the same.

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I have not dove into this yet but isn't a combination of the built in "Groups and Scenes" app combined with the "Room Lighting" app can do?

Might not be 100% what you are looking for but I'm pretty sure this would work.

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If just for testing, a simple Rule Machine rule, select bulbs, set temperature, run action.

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If you want to do this via Apple Homekit, grab the free Eve Systems app. I'm pretty sure it allows you to set Apple Home Light Groups via Kelvin.

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Do you have a Hue bridge? I group the lights and create scenes for the groups in the Hue app — including 24 hour scenes. Then I bring the groups and scenes into HE via the built-in Hue Bridge Integration. Light groups are treated as a single light, and 24-hour scenes change the color/temperature based on the time of day.

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