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I remember when LEDs for home lighting were a new thing and the fad was for bright white / cool white ones. Fucking atrocious at night and made the home feel like an office block. Binned the ones in my flat for warm white immediately.

Mito Man wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 3:35 pm I remember when LEDs for home lighting were a new thing and the fad was for bright white / cool white ones. Fucking atrocious at night and made the home feel like an office block. Binned the ones in my flat for warm white immediately.

Cool white sucks!

I like daylight white most of the time and then a warmer white of an evening.

The single most useful Hue feature for me is the geofencing. I don't have to worry about lights being left on and it's very useful having my porch light automatically turn on when I approach the house.

We have plenty of Hue, mostly for grouping together lights (open plan bit downstairs has 5 different light circuits) and for timers. Porch dims when it's late, switches off in the morning. Kids reading lights dim to almost nothing if they leave them on. If we're away, most of the house is on "people are here" timers, handily you can have a degree of randomness so it's not always coming on at the same time.

Picked up some switch covers that hold the hue remote, can get to the switches behind if you need but can't switch the wrong thing by accident.

Don't really do colours, mostly we've used the cheaper white bulbs and a few of the Ikea compatibles.

I got 60% off all my Hue stuff too

McSwede wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:55 pm I got 60% off all my Hue stuff too

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Simon wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 2:06 pm

McSwede wrote: ↑Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:55 pm I got 60% off all my Hue stuff too

???

A mate works for Philips and had a F&F discount code when I needed it.

Just ordered some more Philips Hue stuff today.

A 2m outdoor lightstrip (colour/white amb) and an outdoor sensor for the front porch and a B22 white ambiance bulb with dimmer switch for my office. All for £64. Happy days!!


It really is superb kit!!

Finally got around to fitting the LED strip and wireless PIR today above the entrance vestibule
The PIR is excellent with a huge range and can easily be fine tuned on both detection range and photocell sensitivity. How it behaves at different times of the night are easily set up too.

The tape looks like neon and has excellent light output and colour rendering. It looks bloody great and when it's off, you wouldn't even notice it was there.

As previous experiences have proven, it's awesome stuff. Super easy to set up, program and schedule. Quality is excellent as always (and it should be for the RRP).and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

https://www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/p/hue ... 8699709914

https://www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/p/hue ... 8699625474