For smart bulbs to work the actual light switch on the wall needs to be in the "on" position, right? So is that something to be concerned about? Or is the energy consumption negligible?
Did someone actually measure the consumption of his set-up while idle?
I have 12 bulbs in my cinema room with 4 or so light strips.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13ehQ2aJIKk
Each bulb draws around 0.4 Watts in its Off state.
Nah. This is how it works with Hue.Thanks, that sounds reasonable.
I was expecting much more since each bulb has to maintain some sort of steady connection to your Wi-Fi. Glad I was wrong though.
I love my Hue lights. Is there no simpler way to connect the google assistant with them other than IFTTT? It's kind of a chore to have to find an applet for every single command.
I have 12 bulbs in my cinema room with 4 or so light strips.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13ehQ2aJIKk
Damn son. That setup is nice. Love the starlight ceiling as well.
Just needs a good beamer.
Okay I can see now why it's cheaper. 250 vs 470 lumens is a big diff. (Doesn't take away from $50/bulb still being ridiculous.)
Has anyone put lightstripes behind their TVs? How did you do this? I kinda dont want to glue it there...
I would try using mounting putty first. That is generally the easiest way to stick something flush to a surface, provided it is light enough.
You can turn lights on / off, change color, and set brightness natively with the Assistant. You assign bulbs to rooms, just like in any other app. If you give your bulbs useful names, Assistant can also use them for voice controls. For instance, I have two Hue Bloom lights that I use as ambient / bias lighting for my television. I named them Hue Bloom TV A & B. Assistant can handle commands like "Turn on my TV lights" or "Set my Bloom lights to blue".
If you want to do scenes or animations, I think you still need to use IFTTT.
Follow the instructions on the LIFX site. The ones on Philips site did not work for me. I think they assume you have the Google Home hardware, but the LIFX instructions work fine (for both LIFX and Hue) using just my Pixel phone.
https://support.lifx.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001623346-Google-Home-and-Google-Assistant
yeah that is what I meant by it being the odd exception where hue is brighter than LIFX but it really doesnt matter how you slice it, the hue is overpriced. Brightness isn't a factor in most candelabra installations anyway. If you wanted bright, why use that form factor? They're mostly (but not entirely) in multi-bulb installations. Granted in _my_ case I do care, which is why I didn't cancel the Hues.
I used to have 1 candelabra in my bedroom growing up and that was the only light. In that case te hue would have been a huge difference, but i don't think that is a situation most people find themselves in.
Got some of these. Havent mounted them yet, cause I am still not 100% sure if and how I should use them...
Not 100% sold on Hue practically, but I already bought in as they were the only HomeKit light system at the time lol sigh.
They did get their color bulbs on track with last year's update, but man... $50 per bulb is steep. At this point I've been sticking with white ambience which is definitely the lowest I'd go with. I use the color temp changes throughout much of the house depending on time and day. I do have color bulbs in the front room and porch.. easy way to add some ambience during various holidays.
All in all I like Hue and bulb-based automation over just switches. Ultimately the switch answers the question ”how do I control the lights". Except we can now control the lights directly by various means.. so why keep relying on switches. The wife and daughter don't really like using Siri on their phones... but humor me (mostly with the Home app). Hoping that HomePod in December will make it more common to just use Siri. We actually have half a dozen scenes or so setup which they DO like (and use those mostly to control the lights). So maybe I just need to give them fun names ”hey Siri turn on the crime scene"
--Example, I rigged IFTTT to ESPN to program each light to one of the three team theme colors whenever a game of that team has started.
I think I have seen this Skill at IFTTTOne of the things that would get me to jump into smart bulbs would be the ability to rig the lights to do a "celebration" when a particular team scores during a game.
Something along these lines, although I'm sure setting that up is far far beyond my capabilities.
I use my Hue lights together with Home Assistant running on a Pi 3. Its a wonderful combination.
I like smart light bulbs, I can use mine directly with my Amazon echos rather than needing a hub.
I love my Hue lights. Is there no simpler way to connect the google assistant with them other than IFTTT? It's kind of a chore to have to find an applet for every single command.
Wow, I haven't thought about that. Is there a tutorial for that? I have a Pi 3 already at home and would be nice to use it.
I have 12 bulbs in my cinema room with 4 or so light strips.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=13ehQ2aJIKk
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=188958
got this guide. I need a speaker and usb microphone though.
Oh fuck that's awesome. I have 3 motion sensors and 5 dimmers.HomeKit support added for Hue tap, dimmer, and motion sensor:
- Apple HomeKit compatibility for Hue accessories
Philips Hue is extending its Apple HomeKit compatibility for Hue accessories: Hue tap, Hue dimmer switch and Hue motion sensor. Meaning with a press of a button, or movement of your body, you can activate your favorite Apple Home app scenes. To set up automations, you need an Apple TV (4th generation) with tvOS 10 or an iPad with iOS 10 or later.
Question I know there are ways to get hue lights to go along with the beat of the music. What is the best app for this? Also any other must have apps for Hue lights? I've seen Lightbow and IFTTT so far. Thanks.
HomeKit support added for Hue tap, dimmer, and motion sensor:
- Apple HomeKit compatibility for Hue accessories
Philips Hue is extending its Apple HomeKit compatibility for Hue accessories: Hue tap, Hue dimmer switch and Hue motion sensor. Meaning with a press of a button, or movement of your body, you can activate your favorite Apple Home app scenes. To set up automations, you need an Apple TV (4th generation) with tvOS 10 or an iPad with iOS 10 or later.
I love the concept of Ambilight, but I think that Philips TVs are crap! What can I do? Later this year, Philips is going to introduce Philips Hue Entertainment, a solution to light your room matching with the color of the content you are currently watching. Its still unknown, how this protocol is going to look like in the end and how its going to work in the end, but you can right now do something similar, if you install the App Screenbloom on your PC and start Netflix on booth your computer and your TV at the same time
Oooooh, I did not know about this. Signing up for the beta API now.
I made some software similar to Screenbloom alittle bit back, using a bunch of dumb tricks to make it as low latency as possible (the time between a new frame and sending the changes to the lights is about 4ms), but any more than two lights is still rubbish unfortunately.
Been wanting to show it off actually. Never bothered releasing the software because I didn't want to make a GUI, heh.
That API could be a game changer for my living room.
PS Don't know if anyone had an amBX, but I made that glOW software back in the daybecause I was frustrated that Philips wouldn't add a white balance.
Hehe, thanks.Wow, that looks amazing, well done!
I really hope Philips adds some kind of HDMI Dongle that I can plug between my devices to to emulate the same... But somehow I lose my hope to get it working with my Blu-Ray Player
Steam should be fine. If we're talking Screenbloom with games, it could be that their screen capture method doesn't play nice with graphics APIs (especially with games in fullscreen exclusive, borderless windowed might work).Thats why the Netflix App doesnt work. Is this also the case for Steam?
First IKEA color spectrum bulb is out: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20353289/
$35 with a dimming kit. 600 lumens. If they sold the bulb without the dimmer it'd be even cheaper.