what are your favorite brands? do you prefer wifi bulbs or zigbee bulbs or something else?do you use automations?does home assistant integration matter to you?matter?all these things and morediscussi just bought some lifx ceiling lights for the bedrooms and office and so far im liking them. my biggest issue with smart bulbs is when people turn off the light switch it cuts power to them and the smart features become useless. im waiting on some lifx wall switches to eliminate that problem.i tried getting some tapo smart wall switches but once i installed it and set it up on the app i realized it wasnt what i thought it was. its still a switch that kills power. i thought it would be a button you could program to do whatever you wanted. its more for dumb bulbs you want to control via whatever app you choose. ill move them over to the kitchen where i have just regular lighting when the lifx switches come in so not a complete loss. reading product descriptions is probably a good thing.
>>109023451I thought that was a clit sucker
i get the cheapest shit that works with homekit. usually meross or
When shopping for them I found that only the Chinese brands were worth the cost.Then again I grew up poor so the idea of dropping 50 bucks on a few bulbs is just outrageous to me.
>>109023451is it worth it to get rgbw bulbs for my house? do people actually use them or do they just become a waste where you set it to white and use the light switch instead of the app instead? i guess red light in the bedroom would be nice but apart from that idk
>>109023451>tapoi use kasa, also by the company tp-link
I bought a hue bulb ages ago and use it as a gradually brightening wakeup light. It has a little wireless switch remote I have mounted to the side of my desk.Can't imagine falling for the home automation meme.
>>109023626>home automation memethis is what I think of most of the iot shit that people buy. like apart from if you have young kids to stop them watching TV or whatever, I can't think of many ways that smart home stuff are useful
>>109023649Even then, if they grow a brain they'll just switch the plug.
>>109023451Hey Siri play Avicii — Levels
Retarded goys. IoT shit is the most easily hackable data collection shit you can put in your house.How lazy and fat are you that you can't just flip a switch?
>>109023678I'm gonna be honest, I don't think I really care that Chang knows I like to one of my light bulbs to have a warm hue and relatively low brightness.
>>109023649I set it up to make sure the automatic gate outside isn't left accidentally open at night, and i threw in a couple relay into the wall socket to make sure the lights outside turn on automatically at night. I don't really care if the lights outside are on at night or not but my mom does. That's about it I really don't care about having lights turn on and off automatically elsewhere. I have no clue why they are so obsessed with it, this would just be annoying, I don't always want the light on and I don't always want it off. I got a smart plug after struggling to find a use for it, I came up with the idea of plugging the TV I use as a second monitor into it. See the issue is, windows doesn't detect when the TV is off and go back into single screnn mode automatically, so its always a game of "where's the window oh its on the TV that's off now I gotta either turn the TV on or manually go into single mode" which gets annoying fast. So it detect when the TV is on and using power or not. Unfortunately it only works sometimes the hacs windows thing ain't that great apparently. So yeah, it would be going from single to multi window mode while I have the TV on and are using it, so yeah I don't bother with that idea anymore. Now I plugged the PC into the smart plug to monitor enegry usage. There is a bit of unmeasured overhead that it accounts for that isn't displayed by the PCs own wattage measuring, but once you know that, then yeah its also kinda redundant. So im back to no real usecase for it.
>>109023678I want the pretty colors anon. My vibes are worth the risk.
>>109023451If you're buying lights and want best light quality you gotta buy philips hue. But when I buy lights for like a toilet or something where I don't care about light color and temp I usually bought Ikea bulbs. Cheap and work fine with zigbee.Ikea stopped their line of zigbee and only does matter now so I think I'll stop buying them. I bought a few spare ones just in case, also some motion sensors that still work with zigbee only.If anyone else know good cheap zigbee lights I'm listening.. though I should be good for next few years I think
>>109023983>usually bought Ikea bulbs. Cheap and work fine with Chinese spyware and allow hackers to plant malware with ease.FIFY
>>109024034>Chinese spywareThey're not even connected to the internet, or even have an IP or wifi. And I don't use their zigbee bridge I use a deconz + home assistant.
>>109023649>I can't think of many ways that smart home stuff are useful>monitoring water consumption>monitoring energy consumption>detecting intrusions>detecting water leaks>heating/cooling your house automatically>purifying air when needed>detecting co2 and co>knowing which lights are on>tracking your 3d printing progress>controlling your stores>controlling your garage doorr>controlling lights as needed>catching fire as they start>keeping tracks of disabled/elderly/kidsand so oniot with zigbee, thread/matter and self-hosted home assistant is trivial, secure, cheap and seemless, don't buy into iot ecosystems taht need to ping home to function.only real downside is that some devices need batteries, if you use lit-ion batteries it's a serious fire hazard but you can still use traditional batteries that won't burn down your house for cheap.avoid batteries in general, get the cable version of everything you can, don't keep old devices with batteries, your future self will thank you once your neighbor house burn down because of hte galaxy s10 taht sleep in a drawer and not yours.
>>109024101>Install non-smart non-networked devices>Get off fat ass and walk to device >Read data and write down on paper with pen>Put paper pad back in drawer>Walk back to... Waddle back to couch and sit fat ass down OHHHH SOOOO HARD
>>109024121I have a water leak sensor that sends an alert to my phone when it detects water. How you want to do that manually? Have your mom on standby with her tampax and start shouting when she feels wet?
>>109024149How about you get your pipes fixed instead of wasting money on smart devices, retard?Bet you bought a scalped PS5 back in 2020 too, didn't you?
>>109024166I don't game, and I like my devices stupidYo mom is calling, dumbo:OHHHH SOOOO WET
>>109023525for the whole house? nah i woudnt. use it in bedrooms and maybe living room for certain moods. everything else just get white smart bulbs like kitchen and bathrooms and outside lights. unless you want to take a shit in a red or green room.
>>109024666I only use open lens cameras in the bathroom and my fap room. Connected to an open port
>>109023626What's the model number?
>>109023451I got a cheap one recently, 20 bucks or soActually pretty cool to be able to control the light from my phone, and especially the brightness of it
>>109025092Uh, I bought what was probably an 800 lumen light in a bundle with the little hub thing, and then a few years back I replaced it with a 1600 lumen one. Just warm white, no point in RGB.
>>109023484It's time to get out of the internet and touch some grass, anon.
>>109024101That's opening a hell of a lot of security and privacy vulnerabilities in your home for alot of useless metrics that people literally never needed to live a comfortable life
>>109026193Just put it on its own locked down vlan.
https://optimizeyourbiology.com/smart-light-database/
>>109026198Not a magic shield
>>109026193>That's opening a hell of a lot of securitythis is why you update software>privacyhow?you own everything and its on your own local network, change your router password to something secure and you're set.>in your home for alot of useless metrics that people literally never needed to live a comfortable lifeI personally use it for security, i have my entire garden trapped with sensors, lights and cameras, I've spotted random people in my yard previously, how is this not information you want to know? same for water consumption, water bills can go very high before you realize anything and water damages are a pain to deal with, same for fire, for the cost of these connected solutions I don't see a single reason why I should not use them, the cons are far outweighted by the pros.
