Light Notifications

If it ain't broke don't fix it.  My My OpenHAB code style automations work for me, for the most part, and when something works I leave it alone, but with time I have been moving my automations into NODE-RED, a very powerful piece of automation software.

So my lights notify  job is one of my new Node-RED automation rules making use of my under bed LED lights, usually just for night light or ambient lighting reasons, is now a way to warn me of things.  In this case I like the Teal colour, but since they are RGB lights, I can utilize the other colours.  So using my GPS location, based on sunset times, the lights will turn on at sunset, to a teal colour, but if one of the garage doors open, they change to red.  If the door is closed again, they go back to teal, however anytime during the night if they are opened, even when all lights are off, the under bed lights will come on in bright red.

This is just the tip of what you can do, for me this is working for now, until I need to be notified of any other state change or activity I need to know about.  This is a nice visual when going to bed, and being warned that the garage doors are still open.