Rule Machine & Custom Bulb Color Inputs

[vitamin]

Hi,

I'm setting rules in the Rule Machine app for the first time and struggling with Custom color bulb settings.

Is there any documentation on this? (I didn't find any).

Specifically, can I see some examples of format and values what people put in these for:

" > Color value? " and " > Saturation value? "

What would I put here for ... lets say, a simple Daylight without any color.

I'd just like to see some example entries to get an idea of format & values entered.

My x-girlfriend (Wink) had a pretty intuitive interface for this and I'm a little lost without her! ha .. well worth the breakup tho.

Thank you,

[codahq]

You won't actually use set color. One menu up there is another type of control command called set color temperature. Use that instead of setting color.

I hear your ex-girlfriend is a real *****.

[vitamin]

Hmmm...

So, the "Set color and level" > "Custom color" doesn't work?

[codahq]

I mean... You can if you want. But if you are trying to set "Daylight" that isn't a color. It's a color temperature. If you want to do a color using HSV you can choose a yellow through blue hue and drop the saturation to near zero. But if you don't want to go look up or test out hue values it's just easier to pick a color temperature...

[vitamin]

Ok. I think I got it....thank you.

I had no idea that "Color value" was a Hue value ranging from 0-360 and that Temperature was measured in Kelvins (K) with values ranging from 1000 to 10000.

Guess I need to study up on Light.

[codahq]

So, I should mention one little hitch. Depending on your bulb and driver your hue values actually might only go from 0 to 100 instead of 0 to 360. This is super annoying to me. SmartThings, the hub that a lot of Hubitat is modeled on, used 0 to 100 (incorrectly in my opinion) and HE adopted that because of the driver structure.

So, apps like Groups and Scenes actually enforces a 0 to 100 value for hue. You better hope the driver you have has a 0 to 100 setHue function. Almost all do.

So, take your 0 to 360 graphic and scale 0 to 360 across just 0 to 100 and you'll have the values you probably need to use.

[vitamin]

Thanks for the clarification. I saw things weren't matching up and a cuss word or two passed from left ear to right.

Thank you Sir.

[vitamin]

@codahq

So, take your 0 to 360 graphic and scale 0 to 360 across just 0 to 100 and you'll have the values you probably need to use.

Have you seen a visual representation of the 0-100 Hue scale floating around anywhere?

[bjcowles]

This is my purely subjective scale based on what I was seeing from an old Osram Lightify bulb. May get you in the ballpark.

[vitamin]

Exactly what the Dr ordered... thank you.