I've got some Hue bulbs and while I believe newer versions of the hub/lamps have the option to return to last setting when power cycled via wall switch, I can't say the alternative is necessarily worse in terms of the user.
The idea is that I can schedule the lights to do their thing or I can control via a phone app, but if someone else is at my house they can always just turn a light off and on at the switch to reset to full brightness.
I actually do this often when I need bright light in a room that is currently dim and I don't want to pull out my phone and tap the widget. Likewise, if my WiFi access point was being flaky for whatever reason, I would not want to be stuck with lights in some dimmed or colored state all the time. I'd want a way to make them fail back to being regular light bulbs.
I think that's the main idea. You get all the fancy scheduling and remote control, but in the end, you need a simple way for them to fall back to being plain old light bulbs if something isn't working.
If this was defined behaviour and it fell back to being a dumb light, I'd be disappointed, but could live with that.
Unfortunately, that's not the case. I gave the example of going from day to night, and the bulb being bright around midnight. However, my wife gets equally frustrated in the morning, when she turns on the light in our ensuite and it's dim because it was last on late the night before.
The idea is that I can schedule the lights to do their thing or I can control via a phone app, but if someone else is at my house they can always just turn a light off and on at the switch to reset to full brightness.
I actually do this often when I need bright light in a room that is currently dim and I don't want to pull out my phone and tap the widget. Likewise, if my WiFi access point was being flaky for whatever reason, I would not want to be stuck with lights in some dimmed or colored state all the time. I'd want a way to make them fail back to being regular light bulbs.
I think that's the main idea. You get all the fancy scheduling and remote control, but in the end, you need a simple way for them to fall back to being plain old light bulbs if something isn't working.