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Hue Ambiance, night shift and light/dark according to time of day on both phone and laptop really seem to help me feel awake and also get right to sleep
Absolutely, absolutely agree. Out of all of the things I own, the little monitor-top lightbar I have is at the top of my list for cost-to-life-benefit ratio. If I forget to turn it on I always why I feel so gloomy. Seriously get one, even if your lighting is otherwise nice.
The only benefit I can see is if you cannot touch type and need to see your hands, but isn't key lighting the normal solution to that problem?
PS - I used to work with someone that needed the overhead light on to see their LCD monitor better. I'm still confused by that to this day.
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Hue lights are not bright, if you want bright lights/color look at Lifx lights and can be controlled by Wifi.
huh? https://www.bestbuy.com/site/philips-hue-white-and-color-amb...
Phillips Hue lights are something you think is a luxury until you get them. The ability to have light change colour temperature or dim depending on the time is so calming. Whenever I revert back to the non—colour-temperature-adjusted light, I feel like I’m in an operating room. The only thing I would note is that they are dimmer than regular lights. Having dim lights in the middle of the day really makes me sleepy.
Is there any friendly alternative to these home automation things ? I would like to try some stuff but I don't want to spend a weekend creating vlans or fighting google play services, alexa etc.
Some of the best lighting around are the specialized fluorescent tubes used to promote coral growth in tropical aquariums. It's very close to full-spectrum sunlight and can be simply set up over a desk. Also great for small plants.
How are they in terms of energy consumption?
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Hue lights are not bright, if you want bright lights/color look at Lifx lights and can be controlled by Wifi.
Have LifX come back from the dead yet? They've been struggling super hard to get products back on the shelf and their support has been like, comatose, according to Reddit etc I really wanted to try their products because I hear the color bulbs are INSANE, but they were always out of stock, never on sale, and I heard so many horror stories...
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I just want some lights that expose a simple API and are easy to talk to. I want smart lights that will work when the internet is down and doesn't need an app to connect to.
Phillips Hue bulbs are locally controllable and expose a REST API through their bridge.
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I'm not convinced about blackout curtains being healthy. Why is it that when you go camping you feel so refreshed and good when the sun comes up and wakes you up? Did our far ancestors use blackout curtains? How did they deal with the sun waking them up everyday? My guess is that it's the optimal way to wake up actually.
Our ancestors used to go to bed earlier and wake up in the middle of the night for a while before going back to sleep. Our schedules and concept of 'normal' (versus 'natural') has changed drastically.
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I just want some lights that expose a simple API and are easy to talk to. I want smart lights that will work when the internet is down and doesn't need an app to connect to.
Phillips Hue bulbs are locally controllable and expose a REST API through their bridge.
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Hue lights are not bright, if you want bright lights/color look at Lifx lights and can be controlled by Wifi.
I've replaced almost all the bulbs in my house with the 800 lumen white & color hue bulbs and find them plenty bright. However, they recently came out with 1600 lumen (16W/100W equiv.) bulbs which doubles the lumens of the standard ones. I haven't tried them but I'm hoping to soon.
The hue 800 ones were noticeably darker compared to the Lifx so I went with Lifx, this was many years back.