"...runs it through a BRIDGE RECTIFIER!"
Should have added a little clip of him to the video...
Hue Light Hack
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The later generation Hue bulbs allow you to go far dimmer than the originals.
I recently purchased their newer Hue White A21 (1600 Lumens) and while it has a brighter maximum as advertised, the lowest/dimmest it will go is also brighter than the previous generation which sucks at night. So YMMV as far as generation and lower brightness. I wish they'd supply this information before you purchase. I want to know lumen RANGE.
Ah, I should have been more clear in my message -- I'm referring to the Hue Color bulbs.
A range would definitely be nice.
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#23I have found Hue to be a rare example of how IoT can be good, they have a pretty open platform using the bridge and api, with good quality if a little pricey product. Be great if hue made a devkit for the kind of projects in the post.
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#24I wish there were a way, though maybe not at the hardware level, to get these bulbs to go dimmer. In many circumstances, especially at night when avoiding glare off windows, just enough light to prevent tripping over things post eye adjustment would be ideal. But the lowest setting is far brighter than that.
just enough light to prevent tripping over things post eye adjustment would be ideal.
If you don't mind going old-school, I picked up a five-pack of directional nightlights at the local hardware store for $20.
They plug into an outlet, only turn on when it's dark, and swivel so you can aim the beam at the tripping hazard of your choice.
I also put one in the bathroom outlet over the cat's litter box, to help her out.
It's just a tiny light bulb and a photodiode, so it's super simple, ultra-reliable, and completely unhackable.
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#25I wish there were a way, though maybe not at the hardware level, to get these bulbs to go dimmer. In many circumstances, especially at night when avoiding glare off windows, just enough light to prevent tripping over things post eye adjustment would be ideal. But the lowest setting is far brighter than that.
I set my Hue Color bulbs to 25% and pure red at around 1AM every weeknight. It's dark but I can still see enough not to ram my toes into the coffee table.
Alright, Satan.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Prize is an accepted alternative spelling of prise, which makes it likely to me that the error here is simply a typo s/if/it/
That's how you know it's not AI generated :) Full of typos. Fixed now. Looks like “pry” was chosen.
Fun story: "prise" or "prize" are more common in the UK, "pry" is more common in the US.
I do wonder what those from other countries where other spellings are more common think when us Americans come in and correct them, as if our spelling is objectively more correct...
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both Hue Color and White Ambient (that go from cold white to warm white) have a Nightlight predefined modes that give barely any light. I also have a dimmable lightbulb from hue that looks like these hipster 19th century lights and this one doesn't go that low. There are 3 types of regular Hue bulbs, maybe you need to see the.other ones?
In my experience, the White Ambiance lights don't get as dim as the other Hue bulbs. In places where I wanted even lower light, I've had to use their White Ambiance Filament or Color Ambiance bulbs.
White Ambiance also don't go as low for colour temperature (2200K) vs White & Colour Ambiance (2000K).
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#28I have found Hue to be a rare example of how IoT can be good, they have a pretty open platform using the bridge and api, with good quality if a little pricey product. Be great if hue made a devkit for the kind of projects in the post.
You missed the most important ones in my book: you don't need an account to use it and things work fine if you block its access outside your home network.
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#29@OP, what are your thoughts on Dubai bulbs/“ultra efficient” led bulbs? I was annoyed to learn that modern led bulbs are overclocked by design so that they fail quickly, and have been seeking a solution ever since the Dubai bulbs made it to the front page here.
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#30> The MCU on the logic board is an Atmel SAM R21, a 32-bit ARM Cortex M0+ processor with a 2.4GHz ISM band transceiver for Zigbee communication. It has 256KB of Flash and 32KB of SRAM and runs at 48MHz.
Excellent; we're getting to the point of lightbulbs having as much compute as computers used to:)