Make light alternate between colors with button clicks

Third party integrations Node-RED
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I’ve got a smart RGB bulb in my son’s room that we use to let him know when he can come out after bed/nap. When it turns green, he can come out, etc.

I have a spare Samsung button laying around, so I thought I’d use it so he could press it to cycle through colors but I cannot figure it out for the life of me.

I was hoping to do it like this: Single press -> Light off -> Turn on light or Single Press -> Light on -> turn light red -> press again -> turn light green, etc.

Double press turns it off.

Long press color loops.

I have the initial turn on and turn red working, as well as turn off. I can start the color loop, but have no idea how to stop it. I the color loop flow somewhere in this community.

I’ve tried many different ways to get it to manually cycle through colors but I cannot get it to work. Can someone point me in the right direction to make this work?

Also, how do you stop a delay node in the color loop? I’ve searched and cannot find this info anywhere.

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I’ve been doing a lot of research on this, and I’ve been trying it with the node-red-contrib-dsm using the “traffic lights” example, and I just cant get it figured out. Currently, it just flashes through all the colors and stops at Green. Does anyone have any thoughts?

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Not really tested but might get you going in a good direction

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Thank you!!

This, “rgb_color”: payload", was what I was trying to figure out, but didn’t know it, lol. Change the payload to the RBG color and template it. Thank you so much, this taught me a lot!

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This is what I ended up with. I’m sure there’s a better way to do the time range nodes, which I’m going to look into, but I wanted to see if I could make it do what I wanted.

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Basically, between 9p and 5a, he can only turn the light on to 10% red, and turn the light off. Between 5a and 9p, he can play with the colors.

Thanks again!!