I am running hass.io on a pi, version 0.83. I have four osram smartify lightstrips connected to a USBZB directly. Since it is close to Christmas, I want to turn them all on 30 minutes before sunset, and have them individually rotate between red/green/blue/yellow every minute. Then at 11pm turn off.
I have not written an automation before, so I am a complete beginner. However, I can manually turn on all the light and change them to those colors.
Anyone care to hold my hand? Also, if we got one working, I would be happy as well.
Thanks
have you read this?
it helped me a lot to understand it all. and if you go into your configuration.yaml and enable config: you can use the webapp to make the automatition. Which is pretty good.
Great suggestion! I had not seen that page yet. I’ll look at it tomorrow and hopefully get that push I need! Thanks.
Don’t use the automation editor if you can help it.
It creates things in a funky format which makes troubleshooting a little more difficult.
And the things you can do with it are kind of basic so once you get past the basics you’ll need to learn how to manually write automations anyway. So just learn to write automations from the start and you will be better off for it in the long run.