"pulse" endpoint has no effect if power_on = false

Developing with LIFX
#1

It now appears that “pulse” has no effect if power_on = false, even though the light is already on. For example, my light is turned on and red, and I send a pulse with color = blue and power_on = false, and nothing happens. If I do the same thing with power_on = true, the light pulses blue as I would expect.

This is different than how it used to behave. I caught the change in behavior with my test suite, but it’s easy to verify manually from the Pulse endpoint API documentation page.

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Could this have something to do with the recent bug fixes to the Pulse endpoint?

#2

I can verifiy that the pulse effect does not work if power_on = false.
This is also demonstrated in the breathe effect.

#3

I’ve verified it here too. Looks like our test coverage need improvement.

I’ll have a fix deployed shortly.

#4

The fix has been deployed. Thanks for the report guys. I’ll make sure we look into why the tests still passed to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.

#5

Thanks! I’ve verified with my test suite that it is now fixed.