Color Picker

[idumzaes]

I have been unable to get a color picker within the Home app.
I was able to successfully use { "Brightness":## } (where ## is 0-100) to get the brightness control.
Does anyone know have a solution?

[oliverrahner]

Hi,

the original author of node-red-contrib-homekit was aware of this issue.
There is only a workaround currently, please see mschm/node-red-contrib-homekit#3 for more information.

I'll probably look into whether I can implement this into the configuration dialog in the future.

[idumzaes]

Nice!
This fork is amazing! I placed { "Brightness":80, "Hue":223, "Saturation":50, "ColorTemperature":10 } in the characteristics field and got exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you @oliverrahner for your hard work!!!!

[oliverrahner]

That’s interesting, thanks for sharing.
I looked at all the other forks when I started my own and included what seemed useful even though I didn’t understand fully what’s going on.
So that should also make it easier to understand what’s necessary to support this in the GUI.

[Shaquu]

According to docs:
Required Characteristics (so called Chars)

• On

Optional Chars

• Brightness
• Hue
• Name
• Saturation
• Color Temperature

This means that to enable those options in Lightbulb you have to enable these Chars manually by adding them to Chars Properties in node.

I'm closing this Issue as I consider it resolved. Feel free to open a new one if you come to problems regarding this Issue.