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Auto White Brightness

 
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Auto White Brightness

Auto White Brightness
Auto White Brightness
2024-10-01 04:03:52 - last edited 2024-10-04 15:27:23

The Auto White feature has great potential, but lacks versatility and flexibility. 

 

Currently, the Auto White feature automatically adjusts color temperature and brightness throughout the day. This is only good for one type of uncommon use—always dim in the morning and night, and always bright in between. "Circadian."

 

I'm requesting the ability to manually change the brightness while still maintaining the strength of the feature's namesake.. Auto White. Simply automatically adjust the color temperature only.

 

This can be implemented by adding a pencil icon onto the Auto White button that is revealed by the first tap. When the pencil is tapped, a bar at the bottom can be revealed with a toggle for "Auto adjust brightness" that the user can then switch off. This should, of course, be per each bulb and not globally for all bulbs.

 

Surely I cannot be the only user wanting my bulb to auto-adjust color temp while still being able to have something like 10% brightness in the morning, 100% during all day, then ​​​​​75% in the last 20 minutes of my night. This should be allowed, otherwise this feature is useless for most.​​

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Re:Auto White Brightness
2024-10-04 16:44:39

Thanks for the feedback @jcsosia,

 

I know that the feature was initially developed for circadian automations, but I am sure our teams are more than willing to hear you out. I don't think I have seen this request before, honestly.

 

I will mention that, with the way that the lights work, the actual lumen-output of a light will change depending on the color temperature, with both the high and low ends producing less light than a mid-range temperature. This also means that a customized brightness for the feature may not appear to work as you have set and may need a feature to build out a custom curve.

 

Nevertheless, I will make sure to forward the request to our teams, as I can definitely see how increased control of these features can dramatically improve the experience

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RE:Auto White Brightness
2024-10-16 19:19:26
Related - I really think the Tapo light devices would benefit greatly from a pre-set that allows them to dim slowly (like reduce/increase brightness over time). For example a simple "increase/decrease brightness by X% each Y seconds". While currently there's some colour change pre-sets and a very generic "slow turn on" feature (instead of instantly it turns it on in ~2 seconds gradually) it's a bit of a shame that you can't do a true wake-up/go to sleep dim.
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