I have several outside RGB bulbs on the front of my house and over time I plan on replacing all of the outside bulbs with RGB. What I envisioned is that I could create "something" where they can transition - perhaps each minute - over a long list of colors, which would continuously repeat as long as I have it on.
I have played with Room Lighting (really powerful!) and it seems to me I can change periods to use a variable, which I assume I can create in RM, and that would allow me to set up a whole collection of colors, maybe 10-15 of them. But, it looks like I would have to set up calculator 1440 Periods to account for each minute in the day with the corresponding color for that period.
Assuming there might be a better solution out there. I could not find one in the community.
Alternatively, if you're calculating values in RM, you could also just use it to set the color. You wouldn't need to define periods if your bulbs report accurately their status back to the hub, in which case you could just read that and adjust (say, by increasing the hue value by 1 every time -- though with only 100 values to choose from, or 360 in some cases, I doubt you'll want 1,400 periods unless you start including saturation or some other attribute in the mix).
Take a look at Holiday Lighting. You may be able to do some of you want and if you are playing with outdoor color changing holidays are likely on your to do list. [Release] Holiday Lighting
Is the ask about single pixel devices or devices with animation/light effects. Even some bulbs that effectively have single pixels can have light animations.
No, they are just Tradfri bulbs, but it was the Govee permanent outside lightstrips (Pro version) that started all this since I found that there is a Govee integration. If your asking about control of the individual led's (pixel?) inside the actual bulb, then still no on that. Thanks for asking!
More like I was asking about using built in effects instead of simply changing the color of a whole device. I have been working on something that could apply in that case. I am not familiar with the Tradfri bulbs, so not sure if that could even apply them.
First, I just learned about HPM. I can't believe I've had HE 4 or 5 years and haven't come across it until now. Second, I discovered that with both of the apps in here, that transitions are simply instant - no fade - and that's an issue to me. But, it's a Tradfri bulb issue, not the app. They just don't have the ability in their firmware. Am thinking this might be the problem you're working on so am excited to install your effects app and see what it's doing. Kids are here this weekend, so will look at it over the next few days and offer feedback if you want any.
Yea. This is a hard nut to crack. It really needs to be part of the device's firmware. To do it at a driver level would be very hard on the Radio and cause a fair amount of load on the hub as well. If i remember right at one point I had something that kind of did this by adjusting the hue and saturation in steps. It was ruff on the hub though and i ultimately abandoned it.
My app won't do anything for this unfortunately. The Light Effect Tools apps are mostly about taking several devices and grouping them together so you can run built in effects together. The idea being different devices often have similar, but not Identical scenes effects even with matching numbers. My app allows you to select lets say 5 devices of different abilities and then select what effects to display on each in a given group/interval. Then when it starts you see them all show similar colors/effects even if they are different devices classes from different brands.
Makes sense. I installed your app, but it turns out I have zero lighteffects devices, assuming your app can identify those if I had them installed. The good news is that I learned my cool lighting is woefully "underrated" so I have some work to do to improve things. Thanks for making me aware of lighteffects capability.
Most of my bulbs have a driver setting on how quickly they should respond to changes. They default to instant, but I usually change them to transition over ~1 second. I feel like it looks much nicer. That said, some bulbs can't help but have obvious transitions as they cross certain color/CT boundaries, and that you just have to live with, sadly.
