Greetings!
I am happy to see Circadian lighting now broadly supported for all kinds of lamps that have “Color Temperature” aka Tuneable White.
Since I have quite a few of those kinds of lamps, I happily enabled it on all of them. Now I notice that lamps follow the outside sunlight temperature quite nicely if you leave them on, but lamps that are just occasionally on tend to look wrong - and I figured out why.
Apparently, the color temperature for all the lamps gets adjusted on a fixed schedule - today I’ve been observing changes on all lamps at 14:45 and then again at 16:45 and 17:45). This is what I’d expect, all lamps tuning to the sky’s general color temperature neatly in sync.
However, when a lamp that has been off for a while turns back on, color temperature for this lamp does not get adjusted until the next scheduled round of adjustments.
So let’s say I’ve last used this lamp late in the evening, when it ran on its warmest possible color temperature, and then turned it off for the night. When I turn it back on the next day in broad daylight, it stays on the warm setting until the next scheduled adjustment happens - which might be an hour or two.
My expectation would be that when I turn a lamp on that has Circadian mode enabled, SmartThings should immediately adjust color temperature to what it’s supposed to be for the current time of day, not leave it at whatever it last had until the next round of adjusting all the lamps.
Help please?
best regards,
Peter
PS: For the one or two lamps where this is most annoying, I made a routine that says “If lamp turns on, then turn on Circadian mode”. That triggers an immediate adjustment. I don’t want to do this for all the lamps, simply because that’s quite a lot of lamps and a big mess in routines.