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Automating lights doesn’t seem super exciting, but as someone whose done it - it’s been a surprising quality of life improvement. The colours are cool. But the
by ojkelly 7y ago
Automating lights doesn’t seem super exciting, but as someone whose done it - it’s been a surprising quality of life improvement.
The colours are cool. But the real power I’ve found is that every light is dimmable. It doesn’t matter if you have a dimmer installed, which is not something you can usually do in a rental.
So, my lights automatically stay at the ideal level of brightness for the time of day. Later into the evening they only put out between 1-10%, and in some cases are set to only red.
Compared to living with lights that are either 0 or 100%, having that range in between has made a dimly lit house possible when it makes sense. And that’s been so much more pleasant I’m never going back.
- swsieber 7y agoSo, are you using smart lightbulbs instead of smart lights?
- swsieber 7y agoI mean, I'm asking because it's not entirely obvious to me, and smart light switches would be my goto, but you mention color. I'm not sure why my question was a bad one.
- ojkelly 7y agoSmart light bulbs. The value comes is automating more than just on off, though I have some non light things I automate with switches. Smart bulbs allow fallback with norma switches, and don’t require modifications. Just swapping of a bulb.