Feature: Automatically turn on/off with the program. about hue-lights HOT 9 CLOSED

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Hi @Cartas or anybody else!

I am afraid I have bad news regarding this feature. I have implemented the first version of the feature and hit an issue. Turning light on on login works as expected, but turning light off on logout/shutdown/... behaves oddly.

Gnome-shell provides the function disable(). This function should be called on logout, shutdown, or screenlock. AFAIK it is the only suitable place how to hook such an event. I wanted to add a hook for calling the action like 'lights off' in this function. For me, the function seems to be called only on locking the screen (Fedora 33). I checked StackOverflow and it seems like the function is not consistently called on all distributions or all versions of gnome-shell.

Without consistent behavior, I do not want to add the feature anyway. But If anybody knows the reason or how to fix I will be happy to resume the work on this feature.

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Hi @Cartas,

Thank you for the idea.

The gnome extensions are enabled on login/wakeup/screen unlock and disabled on logout/sleep/screen lock. So these events could be used for your request. It would mean that selected light(s) would be turned off even on a simple screen lock. Does it sound good to you?

I will think this through. Maybe, I would consider a more general feature. Right now, it is possible to blink on notify. This feature could be redesigned to be able to run tasks on events. Like, run turnon/turnoff/blink on enable/disable/notify/... and more events/tasks could be added in the future.

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Thanks for the quick response!

I have a light-strip on the back of my monitor, which I want to be on when usin' my computer and off when not - so sounds like it also triggering with screen locking and unlocking makes it even better! 🎉 I

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Ah, that's a real shame. My apologies for getting you to spend your time on something that isn't seemingly possible! 😳

Thank you ever so much regardless! ❤️

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Hi, @Cartas once again! I have a slightly different solution for you.

In version 9 of this extension, the support for entertainment areas has been added. In the recent commit, autostart of an entertainment area has been added.

If you have Philips Hue branded bulbs and light strips, you can create an entertainment area in your mobile app. The entertainment area has the attribute "behavior when sync stops" and you can set this attribute to "Off". Now, if the sync would be inactive for 10 seconds, it will turn off the lights in the active entertainment area. This will substitute the missing call of the disabling event. (If the event is called, the entertainment area is disabled immediately)

If you like to test it, you can manually install the version from the main branch, or you can wait for version 10 on e.g.o.

As a side effect, some CPU utilization can be noticed - depends on the level of sync intensity (and for mode 'sync screen' also depends on the number of lights).

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Wow, that sounds amazing! Eagerly lookin' forward to givin' it a whirl when v10 comes out.

Thanks for the hard work and actually looking into my request 🙏

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Version 10 is out for few days. Please let me know. Do you have more thoughts/ideas on this topic?

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@vchlum Ah, my apologies for missin' this completely! 😰

That's great news - thank you ever so much for the hard work and implementation! It works delightfully! 🎉

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