Hi, I have two Elgato Keylights at my desk and I have set up automations at every hour to change the brightness and color temperature throughout the workday. I use a new Big Timer node for every hour. I am just wondering if this is the best way to do this, or if there is a more elegant way to acco…

I have multiple lighting settings for multiple lights depending on time of day and light levels. But I long ago moved away from Bigtimer. Specifically, I moved to CRON+ for complex cases since you can easily define multiple schedules in a single node - typically, since I only have a limited number o…

Bigtimer is not elegant to begin with :wink: With the default nodes from node-red you can get a long way, i would implement it something like this: [image] This will gradually increase/decrease the brightness over the course of 4 hours (every 240s +1 or -1). Ofcourse you can adapt to your liking…

An alternative way is to implement the within-time node from node-red-contrib-sun-pos You can fire a message every minute through the stadnard trigger node and take actions if the time falls within a certain range - or cascade down to the next node I use it for setting our electricity tarriffs bas…

Not related to the question asked by OP, but, I found that node-red-contrib-chronos (node) - Node-RED provides a much more elegant way to split your day (and more) in various ranges within the same node. Typically, if I understand well what you do the 5 nodes off peak, evening peak, evening shoulde…

will check it out thanks - does look like it might simplify it further. Craig

Just looked at the Chronos nodes - unfortunately not going to simplify much as it only passes the message through - whereas the within time nodes i use allow me to send message properites to the next node (such as Peak, Off-peak etc) which are then used to set the global variables Whilst chronos wo…

Okay, so my setup with BigTimer wasn't actually working to change the state every hour, for some reason. It was only working to turn my lights on and off. However, I set it up with Chronos Time Switch and now it seems to be working great! The only thing I would like to include is a switch to turn …

Not at a computer but it seems to me you can have multiple schedules in cron+ with individual topics for each schedule. So you could use one timer node for many schedules and use the topic to determine which light. But to toss in with the others cron+ is probably the node to use whichever way you do…

I do like the idea of using CronPlus to be able to create a control dashboard . However, I copied and imported the JSON on that page to check it out, but I couldn't figure out how or where to see the dashboard. [CronplusDashboard]

Light Automations to Change Brightness/Temp. Every Hour - Is This The Best Way (New Big Timer Every Hour)?)

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ez2remember 2 February 2023 22:35 9

Thank you for the reply. I did not end up using Cron+, but I did end up using Chronos (see my other comment) and got it working as wanted and expected.

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