Fade doesn't fade just comes on full

Automation
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I am setting up a schedule so my bedroom light comes on in the morning. I want it to start very dim and get to full brightness over 15 minutes. So I have added a schedule to turn on the light and set the fade slider to 15 minutes. But the light just comes on, to full brightness immediately.

I am using a Hue bridge and bulb.

What have I done wrong?

Thanks

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Thanks for the bug report. I was able to reproduce the issue with the “Switch on” action, I will look into this.

It works fine when using a “Scene” action instead, you could try this for now.

Let me know if you have any questions.

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Hi yes scene does seem to work! I’ll try that for tomorrow’s wake up. Thanks! Steve

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Hello,

I have the same problem. I tried with scene but doesn’t work for me.

Do you know when there are a fix ?

Thanks

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I have the same problem. It used to work great, but now the lights never fade on, they always just turn on. I tried all kinds of variations (sence, switch on, effects …), none would fade on.

It’s too bad, since this was the main reason why I got the hue lights and the app.

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Thanks for the feedback. Could you please share a screenshot of your schedule configuration?

There will be a big update for the schedules within a few weeks, which could resolve the issue. That will be version 1.29.0 on Android and 1.21.0 on iOS.

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That is one of my current settings

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Thank you for the additional information. Can you please try again with the latest version of Hue Essentials? Version 1.29.4 on Android and 1.21.0 on iOS. The issue should be fixed now. Let me know if this is not the case.

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Hi

Thanks for doing that, and sorry so much time has passed since. I finally got around to trying it today and yes indeed it now works.

Steve

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Thank you very much for letting me know Steve!

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4 years later and now I am having this same problem. A bulb that worked for several years with the gradual fade in suddenly stopped fading and just comes on full. It says I have the latest updates. What is even more weird to me is that the PM fade out works.

Am 30 minute fade in worked for 3 years, about 2 months ago it stopped and just started coming on full. I had made no changes to the app since it was working as intended. Thought it was a glitch and would work itself out, but now so much time has passed and it’s super annoying. Since the “solved” fix doesn’t work, is there another thing that could be going on, especially as the pm where I have it fade out for 15 minutes at night works “most of the time” some of the time, it just never goes out at all, but I think that’s because of the summer having longer hours and it comes on with sunset, so that is something I deal with for the 3 weeks it’s not able to run bc of that.

thanks!