Testing MrMC 3.7.0 - [Invites Closed]

[koying]

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

- 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).
- Entertainment has no mode, it's always "ambilight" per definition.

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".

Which skin are you using? Looks like the way the options are presented are confusing...

[Montoya]

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

- 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.

- Entertainment has no mode, it's always "ambilight" per definition.

That's confusing, because it looked like it had (see my test below)

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)

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.

[timstephens24]

On Deck on the main screen isn’t refreshing after I watch something for a few minutes. I’ll come back to the main screen after watching and it’ll still have the episode I watched on there but with a check mark for watched. If I wait for about a minute then it’ll refresh and show the next episode, but previous builds the refresh would already be done when I got done watching and I could immediately start the next episode.

[koying]

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)

Is it night at your place, or is light 3 ON when starting playback?
Post 30/05, a setting to only force the lights ON after sunset was added, and I see it is enabled for you.

[Montoya]

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)

Is it night at your place, or is light 3 ON when starting playback?
Post 30/05, a setting to only force the lights ON after sunset was added, and I see it is enabled for you.

CET here and tested it with light already on, so those settings to only force lights on after sunset shouldn't kick in.
So disabled after sunset settings to test further:

<hue>
<clientkey>*deleted*</clientkey>
<colorbias default="true">90</colorbias>
<dimbright>0</dimbright>
<dimdur default="true">4</dimdur>
<dimoverpausedbright default="true">false</dimoverpausedbright>
<dimoverunbright default="true">false</dimoverunbright>
<dimpausedbright>25</dimpausedbright>
<dimpropdur default="true">false</dimpropdur>
<dimunbright>50</dimunbright>
<discover>Dissociate</discover>
<forceon>true</forceon>
<forceonaftersunset default="true">false</forceonaftersunset>
<ip>*deleted*</ip>
<light1>3</light1>
<light1mode>2</light1mode>
<light2 default="true">0</light2>
<light2mode default="true">0</light2mode>
<light3 default="true">0</light3>
<light3mode default="true">0</light3mode>
<light4 default="true">0</light4>
<light4mode default="true">0</light4mode>
<maxbright default="true">90</maxbright>
<minbright default="true">20</minbright>
<streamgroup default="true">0</streamgroup>
<username>*deleted*</username>
</hue>


With above settings still no dimming when light is already on.

[koying]

Could you post the debuglog of your latest test, please

[Montoya]

Could you post the debuglog of your latest test, please

Will do Sir, after Formula One Qualifying is finished
Would you like to see some extra component logging in it or specify which one to set ?

[koying]

F1 qualifying? Gee... The races are already boring

No, thanks, Hue is part of generic logging...

[cosmoxl]

F1 qualifying? Gee... The races are already boring

No, thanks, Hue is part of generic logging...

[Montoya]

F1 qualifying? Gee... The races are already boring

Well, boring is what I said to people watching the soccer World Cup
For me it is: "When no roaring/screaming engine is involved, it is boring"