Add an option to Transform to allow the bulbs to be turned on and off

[Djelibeybi]

It's currently possible to turn a bulb on and run a waveform using the following JSON:

{
    "command": "transform",
    "args": {
    	"matcher": {
    		"serial": "d073d5xxxxxx"
    	},
    	"transform": {
    		"color": "red",
    		"effect": "breathe",
    		"cycles": 2,
    		"period": 0.5,
    		"transient": true,
    		"power": "on"
    	}
    }
}

It would be super peachy keen if transient applied to the power status of the bulb as well, i.e. if I'm turning the bulb on and I'm setting transient to true and the bulb was off, then the bulb should turn be turned off again afterwards too.

Perhaps an addition to transform_options called transient_power as a boolean?

[delfick]

I'd do that as a transient_power option in the transform_options like we did for transient_color https://github.com/delfick/photons-core/blob/master/photons_control/transform.py#L75

[Djelibeybi]

I could've sworn I said the same thing at the end of my post. 😂 I'll test to see if transient_power is true and if the bulb is off, send a final power packet at the end of the pipeline.

[delfick]

I'm confused why I didn't say this isn't possible.

You can't tell the device to execute a command in the future, and I don't want to put a sleep in the message.....

[Djelibeybi]

I'm confused why I didn't say this isn't possible.

I think you were pondering doing it as a pseudo tile-like animation.

[delfick]

oh right, this would be specific to the interactor. I'll leave this till I have a scheduler then