Simple Christmas Tree Script for Philips Hue

[mcduarte2000]

Hi, I just finished working in a Christmas Tree script and now sharing it as someone may want to do something similar. I've two Philips Living Whites plugs each controlling one row of lights. I created a group for the lights and two bash scripts. Do you have any suggestion on how to improve the scripts?

The on action passes a time to turn off the tree lights to the script and sends it to the background (as it may run for many hours):

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script:///home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash/christmas_tree_on.sh 23:58 &

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#!/bin/bash
while [ $(date +%H:%M) '<' "$1" ]; 
do
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": true}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/5/state
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": false}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/7/state
sleep 2
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": false}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/5/state
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": true}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/7/state
sleep 2
echo $(date +%H:%M)
echo $1
done
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": false}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/5/state
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": false}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/7/state

The off action script kills the script running in background and makes sure the lights are off:

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script:///home/pi/domoticz/scripts/bash/christmas_tree_off.sh

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#!/bin/bash
killall christmas_tree_on.sh
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": false}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/5/state
curl --request PUT --data "{\"on\": false}" http://192.168.1.xx/api/xxxx/lights/7/state

The group is controlled by timers.

[bbqkees]

If your goal is to just turn the lighting on and off why are you using a script instead of the built in timers?
You can just add the LivingWhites as switches in Domoticz and add the timers there or create a scene with timers.

[mcduarte2000]

If your goal is to just turn the lighting on and off why are you using a script instead of the built in timers?
You can just add the LivingWhites as switches in Domoticz and add the timers there or create a scene with timers.

The script above is turning intermittently each row of light every two seconds (blinking). From what I see, timers don't even have seconds and don't have a way of repeating a cycle (I would have to create n on/offs).

[bbqkees]

Ok I did not notice the 'sleep' statements.

Maybe nice to use the dimmer function (if you are not using LED christmas lights)?
You can also set sweeps and blinks etc via the Hue API.

[GerardM]

Nice,

Adapted it to my needs..
Using nc instead of curl

Just one question, why is there a '&' at the end of your script line ?

[edit]
My ipad prints the wrong caracter when i wat to type '&'
The character i mean is the enpercent sing

[mcduarte2000]

Nice,

Adapted it to my needs..
Using nc instead of curl

Just one question, why is there a '&' at the end of your script line ?

[edit]
My ipad prints the wrong caracter when i wat to type '&'
The character i mean is the enpercent sing

It is to send the process to the background, if not, from what I saw, Domoticz would wait for the script to stop (and it doesn't until the time I set on it).

[andrew0123]

Hi,

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