RGBLEDs won't yoyo from unlit state

[pixelblend]

I want to have the status LED to a given colour and then out again. I thought this would work:

statusLED.change({ queue: [
     { colour: [0,0,0] },
     { colour: [0,0,255],
       transition: {
         yoyo: true
       }
     }
   ]});

But you don't get anything that way. Occasionally, it would work if I set it to a light colour first. It turned out that setting the initial colour to some sort of light would trigger the transitions. I tried [1,1,1] at first, but that didn't work either. This did:

statusLED.change({ queue: [
     { colour: [10,10,10] },
     { colour: [0,0,255],
       transition: {
         yoyo: true
       }
     }
   ]});