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ebaauw / homebridge-hue

Homebridge plugin for Philips Hue
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Ability to configure transitionTime for Hue lights #1003

Closed akosut closed 3 years ago

akosut commented 3 years ago

One of the frustrations I have with the built-in behavior of Hue bulbs is that the 500ms transition time for turning on or off can't be changed. I know from looking at the Hue API that the transitiontime parameter to the HTTP API can be used to give a different fade time. I've done this by hand with Python scripts, etc.

It would be great if the homebridge-hue plugin supported being able to add and configure the transitiontime parameter so I could expose HomeKit controls for my Hue bulbs with custom fade time. In my case, for example, I prefer setting the transitiontime to 200ms ("2") when turning bulbs on, and 0ms ("0") when turning them off.

ebaauw commented 3 years ago

Homebridge Hue has already supported TransitionTime for a long time. It's under the bridge service; you need a decent HomeKit app to use it, as Apple's Home app doesn't support custom characteristics. Best create a HomeKit scene including Transition Time (in Eve) and recall that scene from Siri or Home.

Note that Transition Time resets to the default 0.4s automatically, shortly after use.

Also note that transitiontime doesn't apply to On or Off commands. It's only used for Move to Level with On/Off. The Hue bridge and/or deCONZ gateway only send this command, when you specify both on and bri. Be sure to include Brightness in your HomeKit scene.

akosut commented 3 years ago

I'll have to experiment with that, but I was hoping just for a setting I could set that would make it so that when I clicked the light in the Home app, it would turn on/off with no (or less) fade.