Changing Hue color/temperature with the light off.

[Chevelle]

I have a "Bedtime" program that sets several Hue lights to a dark blue.  After a set wait time, they are turned off.  When other programs are run, they reset the hue lights to the color/temperature that I want.  However, if I want to turn on any of those lights before a program is run, the color will still be that dark blue.

The obvious solution is to add lines that reset the color/temperature to the default value that I want.  The problem is that any time the color/temperature is changed, the lights turn on.  I don't what the lights that are in the bedroom that are already off, to flash white during the color change.

There was just one post on this subject back in 2020 with no response.  Doing a search came up with that it can be done if the HSV (HSB) values are changed.  This supposedly can be done without changing the state of the light.  Unfortunately, that did not work.

The best I could do was to change the brightness to 1 and then change the color.  Doable but in a dark room, still noticeable.

So the question is, how can the color/temperature of a Hue light be changed and have the light remain off?