Behaviour after sleep/hibernation about lightbulb HOT 7 CLOSED

When the computer enters sleep mode or hibernation while LightBulb has dimmed the colour temperature, it remains dimmed after waking up the computer at daytime.

Looks like the temperature was set to something low during the night, it got saved during hibernate and then, when recovered, the temperature stayed low during the day. The temperature updates (by default) in 1 minute intervals, so it would likely have set it back to normal after that time. Disabling/enabling also forces it to recalculate temperature.

I guess it's possible to "fix" this by reducing temperature update interval. I don't know if that's a good idea, because that will also mean it updates gamma a lot more often during transition (something I wanted to avoid, seeing how f.lux does it every 1 second).

There's another possible solution, which is to listen to PowerModeChanged event, which sounds like it can be used to handle hibernation as well.

I'll try to implement a fix and comment back to you.

Next time I encounter this issue I will check whether or not shortening the transition duration helps in seeing the right colour temperature sooner.

Shouldn't matter. Transition is what happens near sunrise and sunset times, when color temperature switches from day-time to night-time or the other way around.

edit: this was with version 1.2, I think. Is there any way of checking the current LightBulb version?

Not currently, I will implement it now.

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I made some changes that should fix this issue and also added version info (shown in tooltip when hovering over "LightBulb" in main window). Can you compile this and test it?

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I like your issue response speed :)

I'm afraid I can't help by building it, I have the ms build tools set up now but it's stuck on the dependencies now.

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I built it for you here

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Perfect thank you. I will make sure to replicate yesterday's actions and report back tomorrow morning (Europe).

edit: LightBulb crashed upon waking up my device. This could be a device issue as another background program closed itself at the same time. More info tomorrow.

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Works!

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Nice, thank you. I will prepare the release in next few days.

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