I’d love to be able to fire off a request to set color of a bulb that isnt carried out right away. My use-case is a more complex sunrise simulator, which at the moment requires a long running process or a series of processes in a scheduler.
# prime our starting color and brightness
/v1beta1/lights/all/color?color=kelvin2500 brightness:0&duration=0
# ramp up to full brightness hot white over 15 minutes
/v1beta1/lights/all/color?color:brightness:1&duration:1800
# transition to cold white over 15 minutes, starting 15 minutes from now
/v1beta1/lights/all/color?color=kelvin:9000&duration=1800&delay=1800
I can understand not wanting to handle these delays on the api server, but maybe it’s something the bulbs themselves could manage?
edit: markdown code samples work fine in the preview, but get butchered on the forum pages
edit by @daniel_hall: Removed the ‘eg’ before the code block. Not sure why that made it break.