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It's not so much a desire as a work-around for the fact that smart bulbs need a trickle of power 24-7 so they can respond to external messages from timers/senso
by egypturnash 11y ago
It's not so much a desire as a work-around for the fact that smart bulbs need a trickle of power 24-7 so they can respond to external messages from timers/sensors/etc. The wall switch has to stay on, so you need to kludge up some other way to control it.
These kludges are slowly getting better: maybe you can get a menu bar app so you can control your lights from the computer, maybe your phone/tablet light app can stick some buttons in an Android widget or in the iOS notifications pulldown, there are even people trying to make switches that you can stick over the normal switches and hit to trigger light changes without having to hire/be an electrician who can replace the switches.
- odbol 11y agoTappur does exactly that: http://tappur.co http://tappur.co It's a widget in your notifications bar and your lock screen with buttons for remote control. Also has a smartwatch app. I use it all the time and it's so much faster than the official Hue app.
- egypturnash 11y agoI use the LIFX bulbs myself (such better greens and blues!); their iOS app has a notification widget. And a watch UI as well. And I wrote a little app that lives in my Mac's menu bar and lets me pick from the scenes I set up in the official app, too, someday I should actually package it up properly. (https://github.com/egypturnash/weatherlight https://github.com/egypturnash/weatherlight)