I have a cameras that watch around my house. If someone comes to the door I have a light strip pro that is inside a TIE fighter that changes color depending on what and where. Person at door, red, person in the back yard, purple, etc. When the automation triggers the light strip turns off. What I would like is for the strip to go to the default which is marquee. (Looks really cool in the TIE fighter). However there is no way to tell the automation to do that. Any suggestions?
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Although there’s currently no way that I’m aware of to do exactly what I think you’re asking—where I think of it as store this variable’s value (current light settings), do something else with the variable (change the lights for a while), then retrieve the value we previously stored and assign that back to the variable (set the lights to their previous state before we started mucking about)—I do wonder what your Automations look like now and what effect you hope to achieve. I also wonder if instead of just changing the color with a Set color selection Action (I imagine that’s what you’re doing), what if you used Color Blink instead? That would blink the lights on and off five times in your selected color and then return the lights to their previous state.
I realize something like that wouldn’t last as long (only 5 blinks) with your chosen color as just setting a solid color on the lights, but at least it returns the lights to the previous (default) state in my own testing (running a Light Strip Pro with the Marquee Effect and then having it Color Blink whenever a Cam OG detected a Person). Depending on your color choices, this might not be as noticeable a change as you’re seeking, though.
But also, you can’t just tell us about this TIE fighter, we need to SEE it please.
I concur.
I was thinking this, too, as I wrote my response earlier. I want a Captured on Wyze demonstration of this thing in action.
Wife thought I was silly when I put the strip in there but that was the plan all along. I now call it the TIE fighter of knowledge. You can actually follow the progress of animals as the move from the back yard to the side by the color.
Not only neat, but impressive.