Add support for Hue effects

Feature Requests
1

Every Hue bulb has an effect variable that can be set to either none or colorloop. Could you please add support for it?

2

This is already supported, have a look here.

I’ve tried both colorloop and random with my Hue setup (bulps and lightstrip), and I can confirm they work.

3

Can you access that from the HASS frontend?

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4

You could, either by:

  • making a script and adding it to the HASS frontend
  • adding an input_boolan to the HASS frontend, which serves as a trigger for an automation that turns on the desired lights with the random effect

Here’s a script I use as an example:

office_moodlight:
  sequence:
    - service: light.turn_on
      data:
        entity_id: light.lightstrip_desk
        effect: random
        brightness: 127
        transition: 5

I use this script as an action in an automation, but you could just add it to the HASS frontend. It will then show an “ACTIVATE” link.