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You could have saved all this trouble and just used time-tested incandescent bulbs. No offense but this whole article and thread is just getting each other to b

You could have saved all this trouble and just used time-tested incandescent bulbs. No offense but this whole article and thread is just getting each other to buy stupid crap. LED lights have far more problems than color temperature not matching the circadian rhythm (if that's even a problem... I just avoid blue light in general). 99% of them flicker, even without a dimmer, and most probably have bad color rendering qualities (CRI) too. In my experience, they're all too cold. They'll also be too dim yet still give you that "getting blinded" feeling. I visited a $7500 apartment and it was laughable how they included LEDs that flicker at somewhere around 60-100Hz. I just stopped using LEDs until I understand the market more, after already wasting hundreds on failed attempts to find an acceptable LED. For now sticking with warm color temperature incandescent bulbs, which are almost perfect. I don't need to raise the color temperature in the day.

ianlevesque 4y ago
> No offense but this whole article and thread is just getting each other to buy stupid crap. This is what home automation is. If there's any truly practical use beyond not overwatering a lawn that you should probably replace with native flora anyway I've never seen one. But this project is super cool! I enjoyed the read, also enjoy excessive automation with home assistant as a hobby, and thank you OP for sharing. We need more joy of tech for the sake of joy of tech.
scrollaway 4y ago
As if incandescent lights aren't plagued with a lithany of issues of their own... Electricity consumption, waste heat, short lifetime, ... Not to mention much less control over color temperature; you get what you get. With LED you just have more choice. OK, you visited an expensive apartment which put no thought into its lighting. So? It'd have been a better experience if they'd put no thought into their lighting but used incandescent bulbs instead?
- dbttdft 4y ago
  > It'd have been a better experience if they'd put no thought into their lighting but used incandescent bulbs instead? Yes.

ianlevesque 4y ago

> No offense but this whole article and thread is just getting each other to buy stupid crap. This is what home automation is. If there's any truly practical use beyond not overwatering a lawn that you should probably replace with native flora anyway I've never seen one. But this project is super cool! I enjoyed the read, also enjoy excessive automation with home assistant as a hobby, and thank you OP for sharing. We need more joy of tech for the sake of joy of tech.

scrollaway 4y ago

As if incandescent lights aren't plagued with a lithany of issues of their own... Electricity consumption, waste heat, short lifetime, ... Not to mention much less control over color temperature; you get what you get. With LED you just have more choice. OK, you visited an expensive apartment which put no thought into its lighting. So? It'd have been a better experience if they'd put no thought into their lighting but used incandescent bulbs instead?

dbttdft 4y ago
> It'd have been a better experience if they'd put no thought into their lighting but used incandescent bulbs instead? Yes.