twinkly adapter for ioBroker

Adapter to communicate with the Twinkly lights.

Settings

The following Settings are available: Admin Settings

In the table you can add all the Twinkly lights you want to control.

Column	Description
`Enabled`	Shall this connection be accessed
`Name`	Name of the connection in ioBroker
`IP Address`	IP-Address to the Twinkly Lights
`Mode On`	Which `ledMode` should be activated when state `on` is enabled. Color, Effect, Movie, Music Reactive, Playlist or last Mode

The following additionals States are created per device when checked:

Device Info
MQTT
Network Status

The following States are available:

State	Writable	Description
`connected`	:x:	Device Connected
`details`	:x:	Device Details
`firmware`	:x:	Firmware Version
`ledBri`	:heavy_check_mark:	Brightness (deactivate control with -1)
`ledColor`	:heavy_check_mark:	Color of LEDs, HSV/RGB(W)/HEX (`Color`)
`ledConfig`	:heavy_check_mark:	Configuration of LEDs
`ledEffect`	:heavy_check_mark:	Effects (`Effect`)
`ledLayout`	:heavy_check_mark:	Layout of LEDs (disabled for further testing)
`ledMode`	:heavy_check_mark:	Mode: Color, Effect, Movie, Music Reactive, Playlist, Off, RealTime (not yet supported), Demo
`ledMovie`	:heavy_check_mark:	Active Movie, If multiple Movies are added in the Playlist feature then they can be selected here. (`Movie`)
`ledPlaylist`	:heavy_check_mark:	Active Playlist Entry, Switch between Movies. (`Playlist`)
`ledSat`	:heavy_check_mark:	Saturation 0-100 (deactivate control with -1)
`mqtt`	:heavy_check_mark:	MQTT-Connection
`name`	:heavy_check_mark:	Name
`network`	:x:	Network-Information
`on`	:heavy_check_mark:	On/Off Switch
`paused`	:heavy_check_mark:	Pause Connection to Twinkly so you can do changes in the App. Otherwise you might loose the connection while working in the App
`timer`	:heavy_check_mark:	Update the Timer

Private API information by Pavol Babinčák

Known Issues

The maximum length for the movie name is 15 characters

Code Expamples

Upload Movie

sendTo('twinkly.0', 'uploadMovie', {
    connection : 'Fenster',
    frames     : [
        [{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58},{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58}, ...],
        [{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58},{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58}, ...],
        ...
    ],
    delay : 250
});

Upload Template Movie

Upload a predefined movie.

0: Twinkle Blue-White
1: Twinkle Christmas-Green-Red

sendTo('twinkly.0', 'uploadTemplateMovie', {
    connection : 'Fenster',
    template   : 1
});

Upload Twinkle Movie

sendTo('twinkly.0', 'uploadTwinkleMovie', {
    connection  : 'Fenster',
    baseColor   : '#00873f', // or {r: 0, g: 135, b: 62}
    secondColor : '#c30F15'  // or {r: 195, g: 15, b: 22}
});

Generate Frame in a specific color

Returns a full frame in one color. By sending the colors in the property colors you get an array of frames returned.

sendTo('twinkly.0', 'generateFrame', {
    connection : 'Fenster',
    color      : '#12693a' // or {"r": 18,"g":105,"b":58}
});
response => {
    // [{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58},{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58}, ...]
    ...
}

sendTo('twinkly.0', 'generateFrame', {
    connection : 'Fenster',
    colors     : ['#12693a', ...] // or [{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58}, ...]
});
response => {
    // [[{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58},{"r":18,"g":105,"b":58}, ...], ..]
    ...
}

Changelog

1.1.1 (2026-10-25)

(patrickbs96) Requests to the Twinkly now time out after 10 seconds instead of waiting forever
(patrickbs96) Switching on in mode Movie selects the current movie again first (falls back to Color if no movie is saved) (#368)

1.1.0 (2026-10-25)

(iobroker-bot) Adapter requires node.js >= 22 now.
(ioBroker-Bot) Adapter requires js-controller >= 6.0.11 now.
(patrickbs96) Admin UI migrated to jsonConfig (admin >= 7.6.20 required), with address validation and help texts.
(patrickbs96) Ping: ping.exe is called directly (no cmd.exe, no process.env), the address is validated, missing ICMP permissions are detected and reported once.
(patrickbs96) Release process: publishing to npm via Trusted Publishing, tests on Node.js 22, 24 and 26.
(patrickbs96) Package contents limited via files, translations moved to admin/i18n/{lang}.json.
(patrickbs96) Switched to @iobroker/eslint-config, polling timer uses adapter.setTimeout.

Update dependencies

1.0.14 (2023-07-19)

Add formatting to some states (hex-values -> uppercase, uptime in hours)
Handle Sentry message (IOBROKER-TWINKLY-8P)
Update dependencies

1.0.13 (2023-02-01)

Update dependencies

1.0.12 (2022-12-22)

Slave can write ledBri and ledSat

1.0.11 (2022-12-13)

Extend Sentry logging for details.groups when "deprecated"
Cancel active pause not working after startup if active beforehand
Merge libraries request and twinkly
Optimized Code in requests
Updated Sentry logging for better viewability

1.0.10 (2022-12-05)

Add sendTo message uploadTwinkleMovie to upload a twinkle movie with own colors
Update Release Integration in Github Actions and Sentry

License

MIT License

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