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mpolednik / script.kodi.hue.ambilight

Kodi add-on for Philips Hue lights with ambilight support. Based on @cees-elzinga 's original work.
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Default brightness settings not true? #43

Open hstamas opened 7 years ago

hstamas commented 7 years ago

When I have my lights dim I want them to turn off completely. Because of the bug in issue #38, using the override to set dim brightness to 0 causes instabilities in operation with some lighs not turning on or off at all or not go back to their initial settings on stop as expected.

Strangely, as a trouble shooting measure, I set all parameters to their defaults expecting my lights to dim to 30 when starting a movie. What's happening for some reason is they are turning off completely. Good for me as this is what I want to happen but since this is not the expected action I thought I should report it as a bug.

Also noting again that when I do have brightness level overrides enabled, the entire add-ons functionality is very hit or miss (see above).

I am also noticing that the transition time setting seems to only affect the static light group? Theater lights seem to turn on and off at a set rate no matter this setting.

cdwertmann commented 7 years ago

I also want my lights off when I watch a movie. Overriding the playback brightness to 0 works, but the lights switch off immediately, with no transition. The "michaelcarroll" version of this plugin faded the lights out nicely until they finally turned off.

On pause and stop the lights dim up smoothly.

mpolednik commented 7 years ago

Tested it and there's something wrong. Looking into it.

cdwertmann commented 7 years ago

Another side effect of overriding the playback brightness to 0 is that when I start watching a movie with the lights turned off, the plugin will turn them on when I hit stop. I did not enable "force lights on".

hstamas commented 7 years ago

Any updates @mpolednik? Just curious if this is still being looked at?

Plugin is usable as is but the uncertainty of it consistently turning all the lights off to 0% for example makes for a tense WAF.

mpolednik commented 7 years ago

@hstamas currently extremely busy, but I'm keeping a watchful eye over the issues to fix them in some batch update

hstamas commented 7 years ago

When ever you can get to it of course @mpolednik. All your efforts are greatly appreciated!