United StatesLight can have a huge impact on your day - cool, white light can get you moving and alert in the morning, brighter lights after lunch can help you make it through the "afternoon slump", and dimmer, warmer lighting in the evening will help you wind down before bed. All of this is possible with our HomeKit bulbs and dimmers, but without seriously complex automations, you'll find yourself constantly adjusting your brightness and color temperature, blinded in the middle of the night when all you need is a dim nightlight, or just skipping the benefits altogether - not anymore! Follow the Sun for HomeKit brings a brand new style of lighting automation to any of your HomeKit bulbs and dimmers, without the hassle! - Have HomeKit bulbs that support Color Temperature adjustments? Stop fussing with scenes and dozens of automations. With a single setting, you can sync Color Temperature with Brightness, so turning up the brightness will make them cooler, and bringing down the brightness will give you a warm glow – on ANY of your Color Temperature bulbs! With full color bulbs, you can even choose from a warmer or a cooler profile, depending on what works for you - you can even dim to a rainbow! - Schedule your lights in a brand new way – imagine transitioning your office lights from a bright working light to a warm, relaxing glow over a period of an hour or more. Transitions so subtle, you don’t even notice them! These transitions are like nothing you’ve been able to do before with HomeKit, and you’re in complete control. Using automations for these smooth transitions would literally take dozens of configurations per light, and requires multiple apps to accomplish. By harnessing the power of HomeKit on the Mac, we have more control than we’ve ever had before, and Follow the Sun will let you take advantage of it! Notes: - Follow the Sun listens to changes to your HomeKit lights, and adjusts accordly - it is most effective on a Mac that remains on all the time. - Will work with any HomeKit bulbs or wall dimmers that support brightness adjustments. Color Temperature features require bulbs that support Full Color, or natively support Color Temperature. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
It's basically a glorified clock based light timer.
Only allows clock time triggers. Does not allow sunrise, sunset or trigger from the states of other homekit devices such as switches or light sensors. Make this support those things and it might have a place in my smart home. As it stands, adjusting the start/end times of the automations as the seasons change is not a job I want to sign up for, and there is no current way to adjust brightness if it's cloudy or sunny.
United StatesNo help; no documentation
Absolutely no help or documentation. If it's not perfectly clear how you would use this application based on what you see here in the App Store, then you will not be able to use this application. You can see every screen right here in the screenshots. The idea is great, but with no specific explanation of how to use this app, it is useless. I paid and I still can't make it do anything. Save your money.
United StatesImpossible to test
This app seems explicitly designed to make it impossible to try it unless you buy it. And that's not just because it crashes in less than a minute, but also because you can only use it with two lights that the app automatically picks for you (mine were both utility lights in the closet). It doesn't even let you replace the automatic selection with another two lights of your choice.
United StatesApp Crashed within mintues of install
The app sounds like it would a great idea but it has crashed four timed with in mintues of installing it. Also I can not find any settings for color temperature control... this might be hidden until you purchase a subscription, which am not doing do to the crashing. Hopefully the app will get better with time.
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This is a HUGE update - check it out! - Brand new UI, giving you even more control - Color Profiles - if your bulbs support full color, you can take advantage of this to customize the warmth of your lights while dimming! - Updated automation engine to more precisely trigger your transitions - Have a room with several lights? No problem, configure them together, so they operate as one
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