Control Homey's LED ring?

MartijnDeRhoter

Hi all - does anyone know if it's possible to control Homey's LED ring? In a flow you can have some control, but only for a brief duration (a quick pulse to give off a signal).

Is it possible to change the idle LED behavior based on, say, time of day? In the evening I'd like it to dim a little, and when I'm off to bed I'd like it to turn off. Or weather based, bright yellow when it's sunny, dark grey when it's raining, etc.

Can this be done programmatically perhaps?

Peao

Yes, that is a good idea. Would like to setup a flow which turns off the ring after 0:00 and turns it back on at 7:00.

And using the LED as indicator for rain, movement, etc. would be awesome, too!

MartijnDeRhoter

When watching Battlestar Galactica or Knight Rider it should definitely turn red and pulse from side to side.

bvdbos

https://github.com/athombv/homey/issues/82
As it will be possible to lower the volume through the flow-editor, I presume the same holds for birghtness...

MartijnDeRhoter

Wow, that was quick


Excellent!

MarcoBannink

Cool, was already wondering how this could work. I like the led ring, but my living room looks like a disco during the night

RamonBaas

And it uses ~4W. A Homey with the LED ring on: ~7W when idle. With the LED ring off: ~3W.

Jesper

How do you know this RamonBaas? Did you measured this?

So if I understand it correctly the power consumption of Homey is as follows.

Homey when performing tasks (with LED ring on) = 7 watt
Idle Homey with LED ring on = 4 watt
Idle Homey with LED ring off = 3 watt

So the LED ring costs an extra 1 watt

Fire69

No, idle with ring on is 7W, idle with ring off is 3W.
So the ring uses 4W.

MathijsFrencken

When used in programming, the following code can be applied for getting a loading led animation with a duration of 5 seconds:

Homey.manager('ledring').animate(

    // animation name (choose from loading, pulse, progress, solid)

    'loading',

    

    // optional animation-specific options

    {

       

  color: 'green',

        rpm: 300 // change rotations per minute

    },

    

    // priority

    'INFORMATIVE',

    

    // duration

    5000,   // Duration in miliseconds, so 5000 is 5 seconds

    

    // callback

    function( err, success ) {

        if( err ) return Homey.error(err);

        Homey.log("Animation played succesfully");

    }

);

RamonBaas

Fire69 said:

No, idle with ring on is 7W, idle with ring off is 3W.
So the ring uses 4W.

Exactly what I measured, yes.

Fire69

RamonBaas said:

Fire69 said:

No, idle with ring on is 7W, idle with ring off is 3W.
So the ring uses 4W.

Exactly what I measured, yes.

I was just recapitulating your post because Jesper misunderstood