Milight - night light mode from scene

[LumKitty]

I have a bunch of milight/limitless/applanp white bulbs, and so far all I can do is turn them on and off from a scene.

They have buttons in the colour section for brightness etc. but there seems to be no way to make a scene that triggers one of these, and I can't do it in blockly either.
I'd like to avoid doing it with a bash script as then Domoticz becomes unaware of the state of the bulb.

Any ideas?

I'm running V2.4334 on an RPi2.

[LumKitty]

NVM, I ended up scripting the entire lights by hand anyway.

[remb0]

I will move this topic into suggestions, So if some developer could and want he can reply there..

[deennoo]

More generaly rgbw device must have this all feature to. Milight say that night mode isn't présent on rgbw but there is !

[gizmocuz]

What is night mode ? It is just a color ? Can't you set this with a scene/group ?

[LumKitty]

There's a separate API call for night mode, which is much much dimmer, but with these lights, you can't even send the brightness commands from a scene.

[deennoo]

What is night mode ? It is just a color ? Can't you set this with a scene/group ?

From limitless API :

Night modes, not implemented for RGBW, but referenced here for completeness..
NIGHT MODE ALL 0x41 100ms followed by: 0xC1 (not implemented in limitlessled wifi bridge 3.0)
NIGHT SAVER MODE GROUP 1 0x46 100ms followed by: 0xC6 (not implemented in limitlessled wifi bridge 3.0)
NIGHT SAVER MODE GROUP 2 0x48 100ms followed by: 0xC8 (not implemented in limitlessled wifi bridge 3.0)
NIGHT SAVER MODE GROUP 3 0x4A 100ms followed by: 0xCA (not implemented in limitlessled wifi bridge 3.0)
NIGHT SAVER MODE GROUP 4 0x4C 100ms followed by: 0xCC (not implemented in limitlessled wifi bridge 3.0)


I saw all button on général switch, OK ! Great they have to be on each light group please

[Phanlix]

More generaly rgbw device must have this all feature to. Milight say that night mode isn't présent on rgbw but there is !

Night mode is a separate setting that reduces each bulbs consumption to .5w and gives off about the same light intensity as moonlight. The lowest setting otherwise available is double the brightness and consumes .9w according to my setup to monitor device draw. You cannot directly control dimness settings to the bulb without turning it back 'on' from nightlight mode. It's kind of an alternative off mode, or at least that's how I think of it since you press and hold the off button to access it on almost every app and the physical remotes themselves. Super useful setting for lighting up the can at night, although accuracy is reduced in the night. I have RGBW 6w 6000k bulbs and they do have nightlight. If they say that it's restricted to RGBWW that would be inn accurate.

limitlessled.com/dev has listed night mode within the source code as well.

There are several other mode settings as well. The most important to most milight owners is referenced as 'disco mode'. It sets the colors to a color shifting mode that is far too fast at it's default setting, so those missing speed settings would be nice as well.

I do appreciate all the work domoticz and those that code for it have done on it. Milight is truly the cheapest option of bulb out there, and at the time of writing this they can be direct ordered from China to the US for $8 per bulb (you read that right). On amazon they run $12-15 per bulb. So on installation costs they blow Hues out of the water.

Sadly they've already announced a 7.0 bridge having just put out a 6.0 bridge with new API. The 7.0 is going to allow for an unlimited number of groups so look forward to that new new API soon.

However, gotta say they've made massive improvements having owned 3 different versions of the damn bridge. Each has gotten better and the new features implemented have been awesome each time. It would be pretty amazing to have Domoticz integrate with nightlight and disco so I could complete the full on automation setup I've got going on here. Let me know if you guys need money. Hell I'll see if I can find a paypal now.