Light Color Hue & Blinking

[josh]

@Wayne_Myers

The color does not appear to change, I have tried hex values and worded colors for example ‘red’ in the variable field. Is there something specific I need to include, like string delimiters etc?

Are you trying to do this through a rule? Normally there’s a color picker available, but I think certain Philips Hue integrations in SmartThings aren’t reporting their data types properly in the next-gen SmartThings integration. It’s on my list to investigate and report to SmartThings (though I suspect it could also be something that gets resolved if the device is currently on a Groovy DTH which will transition to a driver).

That being said, if you were trying to do things manually or with variables, you can find some details on how to achieve this in the following thread:

Rule engine: Set color: Set color by numerical value

Doing it through a single setColor() command with a single variable isn’t officially supported, but I just tried with a few devices and it seems to work. Officially, the setColor() command in SmartThings requires an object as the first parameter with hue, saturation, and optionally level properties. We have Text, True/False, and Numeric variable types… but notably missing is an ‘Object’ variable type which is why I say it’s not officially supported. That being said, I tried using a Text varia…

The SmartThings setColor() command expects a ‘COLOR_MAP’ parameter which is basically an object with ‘hue’ and ‘saturation’ values. Of particular note is that the hue parameter is 0-100 in the SmartThings world.