# HUE on with transitionTime

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [23 September 2020 10:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221 "2020-09-23T10:33:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [23 September 2020 10:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/1 "2020-09-23T10:33:04Z")

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i start my outdoor lights with a transitionTime when it goes dark.  
but every the group start's with a brightness level of 100% and then start with dimming up from 0%-100%  
why ?  
How can i disable this?  
my Script looks like:

```auto
let newPayload = {}
newPayload.brightness = 100;
newPayload.on = true;
newPayload.transitionTime = 900;
msg.payload = newPayload
return msg;

```

thanks for help  
pat

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**Author:** ![Stromber03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/stromber03/32/30702_2.png) [@Stromber03](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Stromber03)\
**Post date:** [21 October 2020 11:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/2 "2020-10-21T11:12:35Z")

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Did you find a solution?

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [21 October 2020 11:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/3 "2020-10-21T11:28:50Z")

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Not yet..

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**Author:** ![Stromber03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/stromber03/32/30702_2.png) [@Stromber03](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Stromber03)\
**Post date:** [21 October 2020 11:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/4 "2020-10-21T11:45:16Z")

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It's seem to be an "error" with Hue lamp. You have to first define the first step (brightness 1%) and then start the transition.

I just create a flow that works, just edit the function and change the duration "1", and state "on off" in my example

```auto
var duration = 1 * 60;
    var msg1 = { payload: {
        "on": true,
        "brightness": 1 }}; // lowest brightness
    var msg2 = { payload: {
        "brightness": 100,
        "transitionTime": duration }};
    return [msg1, msg2];

```

Here the full flow:

```auto
[{"id":"5e24bede.c7586","type":"tab","label":"Flow 2","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"fd1a1a35.db6348","type":"function","z":"5e24bede.c7586","name":"Allume","func":"var duration = 1 * 60;\n var msg1 = { payload: {\n \"on\": true,\n \"brightness\": 1 }}; // lowest brightness\n var msg2 = { payload: {\n \"brightness\": 100,\n \"transitionTime\": duration }};\n return [msg1, msg2];","outputs":2,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","x":230,"y":40,"wires":[["e6c88e0b.0ff4"],["e6c88e0b.0ff4"]]},{"id":"ce9d64db.7885b8","type":"inject","z":"5e24bede.c7586","name":"inject","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":"0.1","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","x":110,"y":40,"wires":[["fd1a1a35.db6348"]]},{"id":"e6c88e0b.0ff4","type":"delay","z":"5e24bede.c7586","name":"","pauseType":"delay","timeout":"2","timeoutUnits":"seconds","rate":"1","nbRateUnits":"1","rateUnits":"second","randomFirst":"1","randomLast":"5","randomUnits":"seconds","drop":false,"x":380,"y":40,"wires":[["f332ccc0.03dc8"]]},{"id":"f332ccc0.03dc8","type":"hue-light","z":"5e24bede.c7586","name":"Bureau ","bridge":"ed539dda.0eeb9","lightid":"13","colornamer":false,"skipevents":false,"universalevents":false,"x":560,"y":40,"wires":[[]]},{"id":"ed539dda.0eeb9","type":"hue-bridge","z":"","name":"LumiereRomelie","bridge":"192.168.1.6","key":"NL3-0NnY0S6GZ227stSfBD3u41fDMjFzXVxDfgUe","interval":"3000","disableupdates":false}]

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [21 October 2020 12:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/5 "2020-10-21T12:02:17Z")

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Hey. Thanks i wil try it 🙂

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2020 04:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/6 "2020-10-22T04:58:53Z")

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But you can set the brightness onyl when the bulb is on.  
So at first on=true and then brightness=1, but when you set the bulb on, it switchs of the last state (eq. 100%) and second to the brightness of 1%

Hope you understand my post 🙂

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**Author:** ![Stromber03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/stromber03/32/30702_2.png) [@Stromber03](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Stromber03)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2020 05:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/7 "2020-10-22T05:31:48Z")

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Your speak french no? Maybe we can switch in french as we are only you and me speaking in this post.

Anyway, I think you're right. This morning i used this function on 2 room. And in one of them the ligth turn 100% with no transition. In the other room, it was working well.

I will check history of each light

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [22 October 2020 05:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/8 "2020-10-22T05:55:36Z")

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German 🙃  
i think english will be ok...  
thanks for checking

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [10 November 2020 17:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/9 "2020-11-10T17:52:41Z")

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do you found a solution?

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**Author:** ![Stromber03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/stromber03/32/30702_2.png) [@Stromber03](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Stromber03)\
**Post date:** [11 November 2020 13:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/10 "2020-11-11T13:34:15Z")

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I increase the delay to 10s before start increasing the light.

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [11 November 2020 19:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/11 "2020-11-11T19:33:27Z")

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which delay?  
between on/brightness=1 and increasing ?

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**Author:** ![Stromber03](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/stromber03/32/30702_2.png) [@Stromber03](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Stromber03)\
**Post date:** [11 November 2020 19:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/12 "2020-11-11T19:45:42Z")

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Exactly. I increased the delay to 10 secondes

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [18 November 2020 10:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/13 "2020-11-18T10:59:38Z")

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i will try...

but i don't understand why only 1 bulb (of 3 in the group) won't dimm up?!  
the command for on and dimm, i send to the group not to all the bulb's.

so i think the hue bridge send's out 3 times the same command, not one command for the group.

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**Author:** ![valbuz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c89c15/32.png) [@valbuz](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/valbuz)\
**Post date:** [26 November 2020 19:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/14 "2020-11-26T19:47:05Z")

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i think it's working!

thanks a lot!

pat

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**Post date:** [25 January 2021 19:47 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/hue-on-with-transitiontime/33221/15 "2021-01-25T19:47:11Z")

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