Speedy lighting & Rule Machine overhead

[bertabcd1234]

If you want something small and speedy, Simple Automation Rules (formerly called Simple Lighting) is probably your best best. Motion Lighting is a good second. I'm not sure which is smaller or faster but suspect both are so close the difference is likely to be negligible.

I did wrote a custom app for my lighting, originally to handle my "dim before off" desire and my preference for only using some bulbs in multi-bulb rokms/fixtures. I've just released an expanded version to accommodate many community requests:

[RELEASE] Lights on Motion Plus (dim before off, remember individual bulb states, etc.)

I've written an app for my own use and figured I'd share it. I originally wrote it for a certain other platform, then another platform (see? not the one you're thinking of), and finally re-wrote it for Hubitat and fixed some longstanding bugs I tolerated. I figured I'd share it with the community in case anyone has any use for it. At its core, it's similar to most motion-based lighting apps, but none of them could do a couple things I wanted. They all could more or less turn one or more lights …

I'm not sure if it counts as "lightweight" anymore, but it probably beats a rule, and I prefer "regular" apps whenever possible (one reason I wrote this). I've thought about writing a basic motion light app, open-source and not necessarily offering anything a stock app already doesnt, with the idea that people could take it and customize it however they want...