Hue-topia 1.3
Device: Mac OS
Category: Lifestyle
Price: $6.99, Version: 1.2.2 -> 1.3 (iTunes)
Description:Welcome to a world where you feel safer in your home and can enjoy lighting effects from cosy to practical.
Hue-topia gives you manual control over Philips Hue bulbs and allows you to schedule bulbs or groups of bulbs.
Security is the watchword. Hue-topia can look after your home while you're away or asleep. It can vary the on / off times and can switch on lights in response to sounds in the room.
(Scheduled on / off times will work even when the computer is off or not present but the computer has to be running to vary preset times or to respond to sound.)
What's New
- Adds 'False dawn' and 'False dusk' which can be scheduled or started manually (just dusk) for lamps or groups
- Adds transition time for false dusk / dawn to Preferences. Default is 30 minutes, which starts from the scheduled time
- Adds 'Bridge explorer' (View > Bridge Explorer or cmd-3) allows user to browse the contents of the bridge
- Adds 'Show Manual Control' to status bar menu
- Fixes bug causing unexpected results with schedules in the previous version
- Adds link to tutorial under Help menu
NB there is a bug with false dusk which seems to lie with certain older bulbs (swversion 65003148 - you can check using the new Bridge Explorer in Hue-topia) - those bulbs sometimes (not always) switch off quickly regardless of the transition time. False dawn seems to work fine. Suggest switching your bulbs around if you have any of the newer ones (swversion 66009663) so that the newer ones are in the place(s) where you'll use the false dusk.
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