The easiest way right now is to toggle the Hue setting in Options - f.lux won't forget credentials so it is easy to turn back on. We could move this up somewhere to the Hue menu so you can get to it easier.

Regarding why disable isn't linked: We think of this as a "home controller" and not a "light near my computer" controller. If you have 20 hue lights and you alt-tab to Photoshop it is too much if your whole house goes to daylight...

Cool, thank you!

@herf thank you for replying. What light temperatures and brightness levels do you use?

There is a sort of "prototyping" API from Windows -> HTTP, and from there you can control a light strip. Check the Options menu and fill in the LAN API URL there.

We're also working on a version of this that will work when the PC is offline, which is somewhat more complicated and has more features.

We can guess the chromaticities pretty well, but what is hard to guess is the illuminance of each type. Do you have any kind of light meter you could use to do this?

Another vote in support of Lifx coordination. My family loves the app on our devices but we have to change Lifx lights with the app or via Google Home to match manually. -- Yes basically the same as dasneal, (stolen from him.)

Thanks for the link.

If you have Philips Hue, f.lux has controlled those for years. We'll post instructions and more info soon.

There is a nice preset on the Mac called "far from the equator" that should do almost exactly this.

Set your wake time and pick that one and you'll be ok.

@herf I think I might have done a bad job explaining myself. I was asking if it was possible for you guys or maybe someone from the community to create a modified version of the Philips hue firmware where f.lux software would intervene when the user requests a blank white value. That way, f.lux software wouldn't fight for priority with other home automation services.

Solved! It was a Windows problem!

Sorry to necro, but in case anyone else has the same problem as OP, because I have a fix--

What is your keyboard layout? Are you using a non-English keyboard? I occasionally have the same problem while using a custom keyboard layout (which I designed in MSKLC to work for multiple languages). I don't believe I've had issues while using a US English or German keyboard, but I haven't been keeping track up to now and I switch often.

After I switch to another layout and switch back to my custom keyboard it works again, so I'm not sure exactly what the issue could be. Just something to try if the hotkeys stop working!

for me it is Philips Hue all the way!