https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIOMzabAa3M
But so is most of the Smart Home market of products, tbh. I work at a big home improvement retailer and I have a hard time recommending most of this stuff to customers.
At least they're affordable now, what's the point of having colored lights if you can only afford 3 bulbs
Literally just bought like 200 bucks worth of Philips Hue stuff yesterday. Ah well. It's a good thing LED lamps last basically an eternity.
I got a good deal on mine. Got the starter pack (With Hub) & two bulbs with a free google home mini for £80.
Unfortunately, the Philips ones don't last very long.
I replaced all of my lights in my house with LED bulbs 3 years ago, about 30 lights total.
The majority of sockets got a Philips LED bulb. Of these Philips ones, I've replaced at least half since then because they stopped working.
It starts with the light going on only after a 3-5 second delay. Then that becomes 15+ seconds, and then they stop turning on entirely.
Of the original set, all the no-brand generic non-Philips ones still work perfectly.
Philips Bulbs, even the non-Hue ones, are disgracefully bad.
Some of the bulbs are 10-20 euro, for a fucking light bulb.
Absolute rip-off.
I even sent an e-mail to them about this in May and the response was essentially "Sorry you had a bad experience, bla bla PR crap.".
If you are able, I'd return them for a refund.
If you're a fiend of f.lux or other hue-changers applications, I know with Phillps Hue at least you can have the lights in your room match the colour on your computer screen. So if you want to work late in your house your house lights won't be so jarring when you finish or leave your workstation.
They're also good for gaslighting your housemates by subtly changing the brightness and colour of their room.
Dont bulbs (or any iot device) that connect to your wifi cause it to slow down? Would zigbee be better in this regard?
Doesn't help that Zigbee is a dying standard with the rise of Bluetooth LE & Bluetooth 5. With the later supporting mesh networks and in general less hoops to jump through during setup compared to WiFi or proprietary Zigbee.
Hue connects via Zigbee I thought
It does
oh shit i was close to buying this, but i guess i have to wait
just pretend this is ~pro gamer~ bulbs
Sounds like a capacitor issue. if you still have the bulbs you could probably save a bunch of money by seeing if they have blown capacitors in them.
This plays soo much like a sponsored ad, but I can't deny the things he says about the bulbs.
his videos are well made and informative but yeah the click bait is annoying.
Also he handles PC parts like a chimp.
I want them to be able to change the brightness/temperature of my light at night so that I can see but it doesn't keep me awake. I've been looking to get a couple Philips Hue bulbs so maybe I'll take this video into account.
And yes Philips also has dimmable non-RGB bulbs but afaik you can't change the temperature (for say, a nice orange-y firelight color) without the RGBs.
They look pretty and it benefits my mental health.
Like, for real. I can get depressed depending on what lighting conditions I'm in. Sometimes natural light is too much, sometimes I need it. Sometimes the dark makes me depressed and I need my overhead light on, sometimes the overhead light is too much and it makes me feel oppressed but dark is too much so I put on a lamp, and I like to have colorful lamps that mix together in soothing colors.
My favorite color combination is to put one blue light on one end of the room and one orange light on the other. If you have a method of testing it like say, loading up a blue screen on youtube and orange on a monitor, try it out. I find the colors bleed in to another and create a warm, cozy effect.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/96103896468543804/87D30F911DCE96A9D4999EF7C28BA4DC6E838B29/
It's hard to find decent pictures of it but this is kinda what I'm talking about.
PC parts are nowhere near as sensitive today as people think. The likelihood of you actually managing to short and kill something is way lower than it used to be and as much as it hurts to see him drop things like GPUs, they're not falling far so they're fine.
He knows what he's doing, and is probably staging some of these drops just to rustle people at this point
eternity or 6 months, who knows.
Non issue.
Wifi bulbs (I have 12 Xiaomi rgb version 2 bulbs) usw 2.4ghz.
All other devices that need speed on my network use 5ghz.
Only an issue for old wifi controllers on old pc or phone.
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