Christmas bulbs w/ Ikea Tradfri

Configuration
1

Hi I’m trying to have my ikea tradfri bulbs that are configured through my hue bridge cycle through red and green every 30sec and then repeat and stop at midnight… I used the UI to configure the automation but it would not run. Any suggestions on what I’m doing wrong? Thanks in advance! Sorry if I screwed up the code brackets, I just can’t seem to figure out the right way.

’ ’ ’
alias: Christmas bulbs
description: ‘’
trigger:

  • platform: time
    at: ‘17:00:00’
    condition: []
    action:
  • service: light.turn_on
    data:
    entity_id: Light.porchgaragelight, Light.porchpostlight, Light.porchseatlight
    brightness: 100
    rgb_color:
    • 255
    • 0
    • 0
      ’ ’ ’
      ’ ’ ’
      ""delay: 00:00:30
  • service: light.turn_on
    data:
    entity_id: Light.porchgaragelight, Light.porchpostlight, Light.porchseatlight
    brightness: 100
    rgb_color:
    • 0
    • 128
    • 0
      ’ ’ ’

" repeat: "
count: ‘2’
sequence: []
mode: single

2

Difficult to say this way. This ’ ’ ’ should be ```, so we can read your code.

3

Is this better?
This is the code I was able to get to turn the lights red at 5:05.
I was hoping I could have the bulbs change from red to green like every 5 secs

alias: Christmas lights
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '20:39:00'
  action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
        brightness: 120
        rgb_color: [255, 0, 0]
    entity_id: light.porchpostbulb, light.porchseatbulb, light.porchgaragebulb
  mode: single
4

If that works, try

alias: Christmas lights
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '20:39:00'
  action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
        brightness: 120
        rgb_color: [255, 0, 0]
  - delay: 0:00:30
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
        brightness: 120
        rgb_color: [0, 128, 0]
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
        brightness: 120
        rgb_color: [0, 0, 128]
    entity_id: light.porchpostbulb, light.porchseatbulb, light.porchgaragebulb
  mode: single
5

Hi thanks for your help so far.
I was able to get the lights to change from red to green based off of your suggestions but I still can’t get it to repeat. I read up on the new repeat functionality but I just couldn’t get it to work properly, any thoughts? I tried changing the mode from single to restart but I think I’m interpreting the functionality wrong.
I primarily use the UI to configure my automations. Thanks for your help

- id: halloween
  alias: Christmas lights
  trigger:
  - platform: time
    at: '21:05:00'
  action:
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
      brightness: 120
      rgb_color:
      - 0
      - 128
      - 0
    entity_id: light.porchpostbulb, light.porchseatbulb, light.porchgaragebulb
  - delay: 00:00:10
  - service: light.turn_on
    data:
      brightness: 120
      rgb_color:
      - 228
      - 10
      - 45
    entity_id: light.porchpostbulb, light.porchseatbulb, light.porchgaragebulb
  mode: single
6

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone can help me with this. I would like the lights to turn red and then turn green at a 30sec interval.
Thanks!