Automatically turn your Hue lights blue whenever it starts to rain
Other popular Philips Hue workflows and automations
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Hue Rainbow when somebody calls
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Tell Alexa to start the party with a Hue light color show
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Blink your Hue lights every night when it's time for bed
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Set your Philips Hue lights to match the album art of your most recently saved track on Spotify
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Automatically turn off your Hue lights at midnight every day
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Set your Hue lights to blink whenever you get a new text to your Android phone
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Wake to the colors of roses on Valentine's Day!
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Randomize the color of my lights every hour
Build your own Philips Hue and openHAB automations
Triggers (If this)
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Item state changes
This Trigger fires every time an item changes its state to a value you specify.
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Item state raises above
This Trigger fires every time an item's state raises above a value you specify and works with any number item.
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Item state drops below
This Trigger fires every time an item's state drops below a value you specify and works with any number item.

Item state changes
This Trigger fires every time an item changes its state to a value you specify.

Item state raises above
This Trigger fires every time an item's state raises above a value you specify and works with any number item.

Item state drops below
This Trigger fires every time an item's state drops below a value you specify and works with any number item.
Queries (With)
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History of item state drops below
This query returns a list of when an item's state drops below a value you specify. Note: this query will only return future events after this Applet is created.
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Get Lights
This query returns all lights of the bridge.
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History of item state changes
This query returns a list of when an item changes its state to a value you specify.

History of item state drops below
This query returns a list of when an item's state drops below a value you specify. Note: this query will only return future events after this Applet is created.

Get Lights
This query returns all lights of the bridge.

History of item state changes
This query returns a list of when an item changes its state to a value you specify.
Actions (Then that)
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Set a scene in a room
This Action well set a scene on your hue lights. NOTE: in order to add lights to a room, you must be using the newest version of the Hue app
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Send a command
This Action will send a command to one of your openHAB items.
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Turn on lights
This Action will turn on your hue lights.
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Turn off lights
This Action will turn off your hue lights.
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Toggle lights on/off
This Action will toggle your hue lights on or off.
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Blink lights
This Action will briefly turn your hue lights off then back on.
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Dim lights
This Action will dim or brighten your hue lights to a value between 0-100.
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Change color
This Action will change the color of your hue lights. NOTE: Accepts color names and CSS hex color values. Defaults to white if no color match is found. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.
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Change to random color
This Action will change your hue lights to a randomly selected color. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.
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Change color from image
This Action will change the color of your hue lights to match the dominant colors found in an image you specify. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.
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Turn on color loop
This Action will turn on a slow color loop effect for your hue lights. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.

Set a scene in a room
This Action well set a scene on your hue lights. NOTE: in order to add lights to a room, you must be using the newest version of the Hue app

Send a command
This Action will send a command to one of your openHAB items.

Turn on lights
This Action will turn on your hue lights.

Turn off lights
This Action will turn off your hue lights.

Toggle lights on/off
This Action will toggle your hue lights on or off.

Blink lights
This Action will briefly turn your hue lights off then back on.

Dim lights
This Action will dim or brighten your hue lights to a value between 0-100.

Change color
This Action will change the color of your hue lights. NOTE: Accepts color names and CSS hex color values. Defaults to white if no color match is found. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.

Change to random color
This Action will change your hue lights to a randomly selected color. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.

Change color from image
This Action will change the color of your hue lights to match the dominant colors found in an image you specify. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.

Turn on color loop
This Action will turn on a slow color loop effect for your hue lights. NOTE: not compatible with hue lux bulbs.
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