Color fade/transition 'direction'?

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Hi,

I've been wishing for a way to transition RGB lights between two hue values ... in the direction with the fewest steps, eg, if I'm at a hue of 15 (kind of yellow) and I want to transition over time to a hue of 90 (pink-ish), all methods I've tried so far just start increasing the hue number until they get there, from 15 up to 90.

But that transition path is visually quite jarring, cycling thru blues and greens, it makes no aesthetic sense. It would be much smoother and less noticeable to start decreasing the hue number, going backwards through zero down to 90 ... moving visually from yellow through orange & red towards magenta.

I've experimented with native Scene Transitions, and 3rd party stuff like Node-Red & Easing ... but haven't yet figured out how to do something Philips Hue seems to do natively, and I wonder if anyone else perhaps knows of a trick (or app code?) I'm missing.

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OK, after a brief bit of experimenting it seems the native transition function under Groups & Scenes will go backwards if that is the path of fewest steps, but only if it doesn't have to cross the 'barrier' from 0 to 99.

I understand this is for [reasons], but it prevents me from doing what I want, regardless. Transitioning from 5 to 95 should be accomplished in 10 steps, not 90 (if you see what I mean).