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Best home automation and lighting



Triggaaar

Well-known member
Oct 24, 2005
50,162
Goldstone
I fancy some colour changing light bulbs in my life.

There seem to be several manufacturers offering this sort of product, and you can change the lights from your phone, a manufacturer's specific controller, or by voice commands using something like the Amazon Echo Dot, and can be programmed with something like IFTTT (if this then that)

Some of the light bulb options:
Phillips Hue Ecosystem
Hive Active Light - works with Amazon Echo Dot (Alexa)
LIFX Colour
U_B_Smart bulbs


So...
What have you tried, what's good, what's bad?
 








Triggaaar

Well-known member
Oct 24, 2005
50,162
Goldstone
The LIFX Colour 1000 looks pretty good, but a bit pricey.
The Phillips Hue requires a hub, and I actually like that, as I could plug it into an Ethernet socket and it would control all the lights in the room - no concern of poor wifi. But the colours aren't as good as the LIFX.

Add an Amazon Echo Dot and you can control your lighting levels and colour just by saying Alexa, turn lights yellow.
 










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