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michielpost / Q42.HueApi

C# helper library to talk to the Philips Hue bridge
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Trying to send group commands in quick succession #287

Closed joao-mambelli closed 1 year ago

joao-mambelli commented 1 year ago

I'm trying to replicate the CS:GO C4 blinking time with Philips HUE. The blinking gets quicker progressively.

I managed to get a good result limiting the command to a single bulb, but if I select more bulbs than that, commands start to get clogged up and the bulbs struggle to even do anything. Even creating a group and using SendGroupCommandAsync to send them at once instead of looping through the selected lights.

Is there a way of sending a command to multiple lights at once as it was one (in terms of responsibiness) or is it a limitation?

Thanks!

michielpost commented 1 year ago

For cool light effects where you need to quickly update the state of the lights, it's best to use the Hue Entertainment API. Here is some documentation and this repo also contains a sample app: https://github.com/michielpost/Q42.HueApi/blob/master/EntertainmentApi.md

joao-mambelli commented 1 year ago

thank you. didn't know about that.