koying wrote: ↑21 Jul 2018, 10:46
Montoya wrote: ↑21 Jul 2018, 10:26
In my entertainment group in the Hue app, I only have one light and that name is selected in MrMC under "Light", next to the Entertainment group I have selected. When I only select the entertainment group and set "Light" to none, I don't see "Mode" appearing for the "Entertainment group". Is that correct how the settings for the Hue Client work or should "Mode" also be available for the "Entertainment group" only, when selected ?
There is definitely some confusion, here
The confusion is caused by how the Hue Client Service behaved in previous Testflights
koying wrote: ↑21 Jul 2018, 10:46
- As I said, when an entertainment group is selected, whatever specific mrmc override regarding a light contained in it in will be ignored (in your case, light "3", if I get it right).
Light 3 is in my entertainment group indeed.
koying wrote: ↑21 Jul 2018, 10:46
- Entertainment has no mode, it's always "ambilight" per definition.
That's confusing, because it looked like it had (see my test below)
koying wrote: ↑21 Jul 2018, 10:46
So, if I understand correctly that you want your light "3" to dim rather than doing ambilight, you should set the entertainment group to "None".
Tested that in latest Testflight with Entertainment group set to none and light 3 to dimming > Result=no dimming when starting a movie (nothing happens)
koying wrote: ↑21 Jul 2018, 10:46
Which skin are you using? Looks like the way the options are presented are confusing...
Opacity
Did some testing now myself and when you read below, you understand my confusion about the settings
In early builds like 3.7.0 180530.1333, I had set up the Hue Client with :
- Entertainment group
- Light 3
- Dimming
In that build when playing content, my lights dimmed, when starting a movie and undimmed by pausing the movie. Just reverted to that build to test with that setting and when playing a movie my light dims and pausing it undims it again
Changing the settings in that same build to:
- Entertainment group
- Light 3
- Ambilight
With above settings I get Ambilight when playing content
So indeed, very confusing, so please summarize how each setting should behave, so I know where to look for, when testing the latest Testflight build or specify in settings description that Entertainment group only has Ambilight.
Now people think that they must select an Entertaiment group, select the lights in the Entertainment group they want MrMC to control and what mode each lights must be set. It would be less confusing if the Entertainment group had a mode to set (Ambilight/Dimming) if they only want MrMC to control those lights or specify in description that dimming is only working with individual light settings.