Custom patterns
Your roofline is a line of individually addressable pixels shaped like your house. Design a small unit, repeat it along a known length, save it, schedule it.
Four words carry the whole system
One RGBW pixel
Red, green, blue and a dedicated white, each 0–255. 16.7 million
combinations, per light, independently.
Wiring order
Patterns travel along the run, not across your house. Light one
red with the rest black, walk outside, and you have found where
yours starts.
Named range
Front, garage, sides, rear — each controlled independently, on its
own brightness and schedule.
A saved look
Pattern + effect + speed + brightness, stored by name. What you
actually tap.
Build a pattern in nine steps
- Pattern → Custom → +. From the device screen, tap Pattern in the bottom bar, then the Custom tab, then + to open Create Customization.
- Choose your canvas. Pick a zone from the selector at the top right, or leave it on all lights.
- Select the lights. Tap them, or use Select to sweep a range. Deselect lights clears everything.
- Pick a colour. Tap a swatch under Common colors — four white presets (PW, CW, WW, cooler CW), the solid colours, and black for lights left off.
- Set brightness. The slider applies to the current selection. Start at 75–85%, not 100%.
- Build the repeat. Select the next group and give them the second colour. Work in units of four or six, not one light at a time.
- Undo freely. Undo and Redo cover everything since you opened the editor; nothing is committed until you save.
- Preview on the house. Then walk to the street — everything looks different from thirty metres.
- Save and name it. Category — Name — Version. It appears in Pattern → Custom with a toggle, and becomes available to timers.
The repeat unit
Choose a length that divides evenly into the light count of the zone. A 60-light zone lands perfectly on 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 or 12 and leaves a partial unit on 7, 8, 9 or 11. Put an unavoidable remainder at the least-seen corner.
Short · 2–3 lights.
Blended texture from the street, distinct colours from the
driveway. Ideal for warm/cool white mixes.
Medium · 4–6 lights.
The workhorse. Colours stay distinct without looking busy. Start
here.
Long · 8–12 lights.
Bold blocks for team colours and flags. Needs a long elevation or
it reads as three random sections.
Distance rule:
from about 30 m — across the street — anything alternating faster than
roughly 60 cm blends into one average colour. Decide which viewing
distance the design is for, then pick the unit length to match.
Colour that works outdoors
| Colour | Values R / G / B / W | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Warm white | 0 / 0 / 0 / 255 | Everyday default |
| Cool white | 0 / 40 / 90 / 255 | Grey stucco, black trim |
| Amber | 255 / 120 / 0 / 80 | Best partner for warm white |
| True red | 255 / 0 / 0 / 0 | Hold at 70–80% |
| Christmas green | 0 / 200 / 60 / 0 | Needs white beside it |
| Deep blue | 0 / 60 / 255 / 0 | Keep above 60% |
| Purple | 140 / 0 / 220 / 0 | Pairs with orange, fights red |
| Halloween orange | 255 / 60 / 0 / 0 | Keep W at 0 |
- Whites always on the W channel. Mixed RGB white shifts along the run and photographs dirty.
- Three colours maximum, one of them neutral — white, warm white, or off.
- Frame saturated colours. Red beside green vibrates; a white or unlit light between them sharpens both.
- “Off” is a colour. Dark lights create rhythm and make the lit ones look brighter.
- Weight the mix 60 / 30 / 10. Even splits look undecided.
Brightness is what makes it look designed
Set every zone to the same level and the house flattens into one bright outline. Step it down as surfaces move away from the street. Differences under about 15% are invisible from the road — step properly, do not slide.
Four recipes to start from
| Design | Pattern | Colours · R/G/B/W | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Warm & Amber Everyday |
repeat 4
|
Warm white 0/0/0/255 · Amber 255/120/0/80 | None · 70% |
|
Christmas Classic The one everyone asks for |
repeat 4
|
Red 255/0/0/0 · Warm white 0/0/0/255 | None or slow fade · 80% |
|
Halloween Orange, void, violet |
repeat 3
|
Orange 255/60/0/0 · Off 0/0/0/0 · Purple 140/0/220/0 | Twinkle, medium · 85% |
|
Game Day Swap in your team's two |
repeat 8
|
Team A 0/40/160/0 · Team B 255/10/40/0 | Chase, fast on a win · 90% |
Put a custom pattern on a timer
- Timer → Timer → +. Bottom bar Timer, the Timer tab at the top (Autoplay is the other), then + to open Create Timer.
- Name it after the scene it runs, then set Lighting to Pattern (Autoplay runs a rotating sequence instead).
- Tap the Pattern row, choose Custom. The Mode dialog offers Lighting Color, Pattern and Custom — Custom is the one that reaches your own saved designs.
- Pick your design from the Lighting Scene list.
- Repeat → Week, then tap the days (all seven for everyday). Year is for fixed calendar dates.
- Start and End Time. Each is either a fixed Time or Sunrise Sunset, which follows the daylight through the year.
- Save, then flip the toggle on. A saved timer does nothing until it is armed — the most common reason a schedule “did not work”.
When something is wrong
| Symptom | First move |
|---|---|
| Timer did not fire | Toggle off, no days selected, or end time before start |
| App cannot find it | Phone onto 2.4 GHz, reopen app, power-cycle controller |
| Everything dark | Breaker and switched outlet before anything else |
| Section past a point dark | Light count set too low in device settings |
| Whites do not match | Some lights on a mixed white — use a white preset |
| Colours washed out | Drop to 70–80% brightness |
Care: leave snow and ice alone — the lights are sealed. Rinse gently, never pressure-wash. Tell us before roofing, gutter, siding or painting work, and re-pair after any router or network-name change.