Granularity of Philips HUE support

[JDRoberts]

Yes, we do that with a virtual timer, but it’s generally done with a minimum increment of one minute. Not a few seconds.

You can try to do it with less than a minute using a smart app called core, but there’s no guarantee it will actually happen that quickly.

App Request: Simple Timer

There are three ways to do this now depending on exactly what you need. As is typical, smart things is very powerful, but not very intuitive. One) if you just want the light to always turn off after it has been on for 15 minutes, you can just use the power allowance feature in the official smart lighting smart app. But in that case no matter how you turn it on it will turn itself off again after 15 minutes. And that’s not what most people want. [image] [image] Two) if you want to sometimes have the light turned on on a timer, and other times turn it on and have it stay on, you can use a virtual timer there is a how to article with the instructions for this in the community – created wiki. http://thingsthataresmart.wiki/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_virtual_timer_for_a_light fin…