OnSwitch Blog:
Behind the Scenes
We Love (Lava) Lamp!
Lava lamps project colorful, fluid light animations. Our album of Lava Lamp scenes capture that essence and let your whole room become a moving, fluid color experience.
Fire Album Gets a Tune up
Many of the Fire album scenes were created when the Hue V1 Bridge was the only option. It had limitations we can forget about now. This tune-up delivers a subtly smoother, more organic flame animation.
Stripes: Stylish Color Rotations
Color rotations get used for Flags and Team colors. When a user suggested “stripes” as an album concept, it got our creative energies going, giving old-school color rotations a classy new job to do.
Advanced Dimming: Better Simulations of Circadian and Incandescent Lighting
In nature, color temperature and brightness are related. But the default Philips Hue scenes keeps these values independent. OnSwitch advanced dimming options emulate both Sunrise to Sunset lighting and the “warm dimming” behavior of incandescent bulbs.
Crystal Fire: Animated Sparkle
Chrystal Fire is a fast moving, white-light scene in the Fire Album. The scene changes color temperature based on brightness creating a sparkling effect. It works on Hue Color or White Ambiance devices.
Lights Out! Turn off your lights with style!
“Lights Out!” is a set of fun and stylish ways to turn off your lights. And they work awesome with Siri Shortcuts.
Music Pulse: Beats for Your Lights!
Music Pulse effects are flashing color scenes with a preset rate that you can match to the music you are listening to!
Lightning 2.0: More Claps, Peals, Rolls and Rumbles
OnSwitch’s new Lightning scenes are design to create a more realistic and immersive soundscape along with a richer vocabulary of light flashes to communicate what type of lightning is occurring.
Home Theater's Color Science
OnSwitch 1.1.2 adds Home Theater scenes. This post explains why they do what they do!