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I think Hue bulbs can do that out of the box.

• airstrike 6y ago
  Indeed, and after setting up the auto wake up / sleep cycle, I had to turn it off because it was leading me to want to fall asleep at night when I still had a ton of work to get through As great as it would be to keep a more natural "lighting" cycle around the house, the truth is my modern obligations won't allow for that, so I have the lights on at full blast until midnight quite frequently I look forward to my retirement but I wonder what brain and body damage I will have accrued until then
  • wpietri 6y ago
    I think it's worth asking how much more time spent equals more productivity. For me, that's only true for very short periods. I find I'm way more productive for the long haul if I'm getting plenty of sleep. The thing that convinced me to try was this presentation from game developers on the limits of crunch time: https://lostgarden.home.blog/2008/09/28/rules-of-productivity-presentation/ https://lostgarden.home.blog/2008/09/28/rules-of-productivit...
    • airstrike 6y ago
      I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, deadlines often have a way of making it impossible to have a full night of sleep.
• wpietri 6y ago
  They mostly can now, 6 years later. Although they still don't do two things I really like: 1) long, slow changes in light (my lights dim from 7 to 10 pm, but I think the app is limited to 1 hour), 2) color temperature shifts as part of that (my lights go from very warm at "dawn" to very cool at noon and back to very warm at "dusk". Mine is also more opinionated; I can turn on the lights manually, but they'll go back in sync to the schedule after a bit. Whereas with the Hue app, if I change the lighting during an automatic cycle, it stops the automation until the next trigger point.