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Your idea is pretty straightforward. Set up a camera outside, point it at the sky, capture a screenshot, average the color, set smart lights to that color. Pre
by sillysaurusx 3y ago
Your idea is pretty straightforward. Set up a camera outside, point it at the sky, capture a screenshot, average the color, set smart lights to that color.
Presto, yellow sky makes yellow light.
You’ll quickly grow tired of how it looks. And not because it isn’t calibrated correctly.
- jrockway 3y agoWhat the high end variable-temperature lighting systems seem to do is just use your clock and latitude to simulate what color temperature the sky would be at a given time of day, and set the lights to that. I've never seen it in action, I only have boring old single-color lights. I am not really annoyed by 2700K lamps during the day, and mixing daylight and 2700K doesn't really look as awful as you'd think during zoom calls.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoThe main point is that those high end systems won’t look any better to you just because they calculate out a color curve based on your lat,long. It’d look just as good if you point a camera at the sky. Your high end systems also won’t capture changes in weather, so that’s less cool. But then you’d get bored of it looking rainy whenever it rains.