With previous versions of the Hue app, you could set a timer that would trigger a light scene when the time expired. For example, a 10-minute timer might end with the lights turning on at full ...

My cheap slow cooker has no timer, so I plug it into a cheap Christmas light timer set to start an hour after I leave in the morning and turn off an hour before I get home.

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