Afternoon all, I am using room lighting with Philips Hue, I would like to harness the adaptive lighting feature that hue has, is there anyway of achieving this in room lighting ?
I am not personally aware of any built-in or even custom integrations that have made use of this relatively new feature of the Hue Eco-System. Your most likely options, imho, would be to see if @bertabcd1234 or @armand would consider and could deliver any integration with this feature in their respective Hue integrations. The HE built-in integration has remained relatively static during my 5-6 years here, opting for a more "passive" integration, so the likelihood of a change that involves such a new feature seems remote.
Alternatively, you may be interested in an admittedly older integration that manages circadian lighting locally on the HE hub. Here's a link to a discussion "in the middle" that includes references to older and newer iterations of some code that may be of interest. No guarantee of the suitability or currency of the code on my part.
On this note, this may spark a continued discussion in this space. It would be good if something like this could be built-in to the HE hub, if only as a separate feature to Room Lighting. Just my 2c....
The latest fork of this app by @OldChicagoPete works really well and even supports LIFX bulbs - you can find it here:
100%, this would be great - but it would be duplication of a great existing app.
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Adaptive lighting in hue can still be used. Can you elaborate on your idea? Are the only lights you want to participate in adaptive light just the hue lights?
In hue, adaptive lighting is an automation and the equivalent to it would be an app. I have a rules engine rule that does the same thing in my pantry using a light sensors and a gradient scale, though you could do it with sun-up and sun-down times as well. Basically in my rule, I run a simple equation to invert the lux and scale it to a range of 0-100 (from a min and max pic range). You can also reference a weather object if you have one to know how bright it is outside to base your lighting on.
If your really so inclined, you can even pair a light sensor in the room with an outdoor light sensor and slowly Rais the light level by 1 % after every ready where the light in the room is less than outside, or lower by 1% for when the light level is too bright inside the room. Then you can match outdoor light without subjecting you by room to the issues of open blinds/curtains.
I have the adaptive lighting set, however in room lighting the device are CT, Switch, Dimmer RGB.
Once you select one of these options, you are them forced to select a brightness level or temp or both, I thought this would override any ambient settings from the hue side of things.
From the above posts, I have installed the recommended app and set the device type to switch with the hope this - although now as I type this I just realised I may have to disable ambient lighting as I might end up with 2 apps trying to compete.
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Yep, this is the case.
One of the nice benefits of the daylights app, is you can decouple colour temp from brightness, or combine the two, it’s entirely your choice.
Plus if you have the bulbs in lamp shades that affect the perceived colour temp, eg make the light look warmer, you can set your own min/max colour temp values to correct for it.
