It's cool to use colored lights for holiday displays. I just got RGBWW lights for my porch, and set out to configure them for holidays.
Surprisingly, there are relatively few apps that allow scheduling different color palettes for different holidays. I found one lighting app which had a "holiday" mode, but it only allowed selecting a single set of colors; it would need to be manually changed for each holiday.
So I wrote one.
This app performs two related functions with a set of RGB lights:
- Because these lights are probably also used for normal illumination, it provides a simple lighting-triggered-by-sensors option. If you want to do something more complex, designate a switch as your trigger; illumination mode will follow that switch's on/off.
- On scheduled holidays, a holiday-themed set of colors is applied to the selected lights.
Install options:
- Hubitat Package Manager
- Manual install from GitHub - MikeBishop/hubitat-holiday
- Library from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikeBishop/hubitat-holiday/main/color-tools.groovy
- App from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MikeBishop/hubitat-holiday/main/holiday-lights.groovy
- Upload this JS file under Settings > File Manager
- Semi-manual install:
- Bundle from https://github.com/MikeBishop/hubitat-holiday/releases/latest/download/holiday-lights.zip
- Upload this JS file under Settings > File Manager
Please try it, add your own holidays, and let me know what you think!