I have several Hues and living whites in my home, and I am looking forward to combine them with the almond+ and motion/light sensors as inputs for lighting settings.
On the part of time based scheduling there are some interesting apps available and I am very curious what the almond+ will provide on this front.
All apps I have seen so far miss the approach to easy realize something I would like to accomplish: separate control of on/of, brightness and color(temperature) conditions.
So the lights can be switched on/of manually, by light level, time based, maybe motion sensor,...
But what lights should switch on and in what condition would be dependent of rules like:
-warm white with slow fade in at dawn.
-cooler white and high brightness towards sunrise.
-switch of after sunrise (if daylight level is high enough).
-switch on if daylight level drops in the evening (start with high brightness cool)
-fade to warmer(or even more colourful) lower light setting at some point in the evening.
-Cinema mode (if video playing in XBMC?)
a part of these things (sunset) are already possible with apps that create scenes, and schedule fades between them. but they miss the boat when the lights are switched on or of in between, or are manually adjusted in between.
It would be nice to see some possibility to see a "default dynamic scene" with these kind of rules that can be reverted to, when light is turned on by any input.
for manual intervention there could be an option to activate a custom scene and pause above scheme for x mins. for example.
Most of the ingredients are there I think, it is just a way of clever programming i guess