Fun with LifX lights and Python
I quite like my LIFX lights. I went a long time without seeing much benefit to smart lights, but now I love them.
When I want to kick off more of a retrowave feel for a late-night coding session, I run this script, and my office lights then oscillate through the same colour scheme as the lights on my keyboard.
from time import sleep
from lifxlan import LifxLAN
# from lifxlan import BLUE, CYAN, GREEN, LifxLAN, ORANGE, PINK, PURPLE, RED, YELLOW
def hsv_to_hsbk(h, s, v):
hsbk = (
int(h/255 * 65535),
int(s/255 * 65535),
int(v/255 * 65535),
3500
)
return hsbk
def main():
num_lights = 3
lifx = LifxLAN(num_lights)
# Get devices
group = lifx.get_devices_by_group("Office")
colors = [
hsv_to_hsbk(14, 222, 242),
hsv_to_hsbk(233, 218, 217),
hsv_to_hsbk(180, 255, 233),
hsv_to_hsbk(205, 255, 255),
hsv_to_hsbk(255, 220, 201),
]
# colors = [RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, CYAN, BLUE, PURPLE, PINK]
group.set_power("on")
duration = 15
transition_time_ms = duration*1000
while True:
for color in colors:
group.set_color(color, transition_time_ms, False)
sleep(duration)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
You could change the colours to the built-in colours from the LifXLAN library or any you want. Just get the HSV values. I pulled the values straight out of the keymap.c file in the source available from the Oryx site for my keyboard layout.
Pretty cool.
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