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  • Re: LED Lights

    From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Spectre on Fri Apr 16 19:14:18 2021
    *** Quoting Spectre from a message to Ogg ***

    Now there's some odd logic... :) But I don't know what kinda price
    you have to pay in I'll get this wrong, the US, or just in case,
    Canada... ;) I don't recall finding LED lights overly expensive
    here. I still miss warmer incadescent light though.

    Everything costs more in Canada. Everything.
    That being said, we'll just buy it anyway.

    When we bought our house one of the "perks" was that all light bulbs were
    LED. What they didn't tell is was that they were all "cool" LED bulbs.

    Nothing quite like going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and
    having you retinas burned out by way-too-bright light.

    We quickly replaced those with "warm" LED lights which were much better, and even ended up putting a dimmer on the bathroom with dimable LED bulbs.

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living room (the full colour ones) - so now in the evenings we have it set to "relax" which is a VERY warm colour (~2200 K colour temp) which also defaults to 50% brightness.


    Jay

    ... RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 16 21:07:00 2021
    Hello Warpslide!

    ** On Friday 16.04.21 - 20:14, Warpslide wrote to Spectre:

    Nothing quite like going to the bathroom in the middle of
    the night and having you retinas burned out by way-too-
    bright light.

    I have a simple motion activated night-light (LED) plugged into
    the wall. It's more than adequate for those early morning
    missions to the bathroom.

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living
    room (the full colour ones) - so now in the evenings we have
    it set to "relax" which is a VERY warm colour (~2200 K
    colour temp) which also defaults to 50% brightness.

    Never heard of those. They can be pretty fancy (and $s to
    match) with the bluetooth and programmability.


    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 17 17:56:00 2021
    were LED. What they didn't tell is was that they were all "cool"
    LED bulbs. Nothing quite like going to the bathroom in the middle
    of the night

    Chuckle, fluorescents can be good at that too. My parents bathroom had a giant mirror... with, mental blank now, was it one or two, 4" fluoros over the top behind a pelmet... so the bottom was open... always a blinder in the night... :)

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living room (the
    full colour ones) - so now in the evenings we have it set to
    "relax" which is a VERY warm colour (~2200 K colour temp) which also defaults to 50% brightness.

    I don't think I've seen these in person... how do you change their colour? In theory thats the ultimate colour temp choice... Although practice at the church says colour LEDs are not good at making "white" light thats not exactly what I'm looking for, more the warm "golden" of incandescence.

    Spec


    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: (21:3/101)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Ogg on Sat Apr 17 06:21:14 2021
    *** Quoting Ogg from a message to Warpslide ***

    I have a simple motion activated night-light (LED) plugged into the wall. It's more than adequate for those early morning missions to
    the bathroom.

    We had something similar at one point, but it was very finnicky. Picture standing at the toilet doing your thing and then the light decides you're no longer there. Now you're doing your thing in total darkness...

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs

    Never heard of those. They can be pretty fancy (and $s to match)
    with the bluetooth and programmability.

    Yeah, they can be pricy. We won a small set at a company Christmas party one year which was either one or two (white only) bulbs, a hub & a dimmer switch.

    That kind of dipped our toe in the water and then got the colour bulbs for
    the living room.


    Jay

    ... There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 17 06:27:00 2021
    Hello Warpslide!

    ** On Saturday 17.04.21 - 07:21, Warpslide wrote to Ogg:

    I have a simple motion activated night-light (LED) plugged
    into the wall. It's more than adequate..

    We had something similar at one point, but it was very
    finnicky. Picture standing at the toilet doing your thing
    and then the light decides you're no longer there. Now
    you're doing your thing in total darkness...

    Heheheh.. it does that too! But I just have to sway a little
    and it pops right back up. Or.. I just sit down for the whole
    business. :D



    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Spectre on Sat Apr 17 06:35:00 2021
    *** Quoting Spectre from a message to Warpslide ***

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living room

    I don't think I've seen these in person... how do you change their
    colour?

    There's an app for that! ;)

    We used to use the app to turn them on & off as well as change the colour.

    Then we got an Alexa device, so now we just ask her to do it for us:

    "Alexa, set the living room to relax"
    "Alexa, dim the living room"
    "Alexa, set the living room to white and set the living room to 75%"

    In theory thats the ultimate colour temp choice...

    There's also an app you can install that will sync the light colour to what you're watching on TV. It's a neat party trick, but we don't use it too often. It works really well with very colourful movies, so when showing friends we'd often queue up Rio (which has a lot of colourful parrots) and then watch the living room lights dance around at various colours & brightness.


    Jay

    ... MONEY TALKS...but all mine ever says is GOODBYE!

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 17 07:39:00 2021
    Hello Warpslide!

    ** On Saturday 17.04.21 - 07:35, Warpslide wrote to Spectre:

    Then we got an Alexa device, so now we just ask her to do it for us:

    "Alexa, set the living room to relax"
    "Alexa, dim the living room"
    "Alexa, set the living room to white and set the living room to 75%"

    Oh boy. One day, you will forget HOW to turn on the lights
    manually.


    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Ogg on Sat Apr 17 10:28:52 2021
    *** Quoting Ogg from a message to Warpslide ***

    Oh boy. One day, you will forget HOW to turn on the lights
    manually.

    I'm one step closer to the future I dreamed about as a kid watching Star
    Trek: TNG!

    Now if I could only get those conveyor belts installed in the floor like they had in The Jetson's... ;)


    Jay

    ... I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Spectre on Fri Apr 16 20:14:18 2021
    *** Quoting Spectre from a message to Ogg ***

    Now there's some odd logic... :) But I don't know what kinda price
    you have to pay in I'll get this wrong, the US, or just in case,
    Canada... ;) I don't recall finding LED lights overly expensive
    here. I still miss warmer incadescent light though.

    Everything costs more in Canada. Everything.
    That being said, we'll just buy it anyway.

    When we bought our house one of the "perks" was that all light bulbs were
    LED. What they didn't tell is was that they were all "cool" LED bulbs.

    Nothing quite like going to the bathroom in the middle of the night and
    having you retinas burned out by way-too-bright light.

    We quickly replaced those with "warm" LED lights which were much better, and even ended up putting a dimmer on the bathroom with dimable LED bulbs.

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living room (the full colour ones) - so now in the evenings we have it set to "relax" which is a VERY warm colour (~2200 K colour temp) which also defaults to 50% brightness.


    Jay

    ... RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 16 22:07:00 2021
    Hello Warpslide!

    ** On Friday 16.04.21 - 20:14, Warpslide wrote to Spectre:

    Nothing quite like going to the bathroom in the middle of
    the night and having you retinas burned out by way-too-
    bright light.

    I have a simple motion activated night-light (LED) plugged into
    the wall. It's more than adequate for those early morning
    missions to the bathroom.

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living
    room (the full colour ones) - so now in the evenings we have
    it set to "relax" which is a VERY warm colour (~2200 K
    colour temp) which also defaults to 50% brightness.

    Never heard of those. They can be pretty fancy (and $s to
    match) with the bluetooth and programmability.


    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 17 18:56:00 2021
    were LED. What they didn't tell is was that they were all "cool"
    LED bulbs. Nothing quite like going to the bathroom in the middle
    of the night

    Chuckle, fluorescents can be good at that too. My parents bathroom had a giant mirror... with, mental blank now, was it one or two, 4" fluoros over the top behind a pelmet... so the bottom was open... always a blinder in the night... :)

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living room (the
    full colour ones) - so now in the evenings we have it set to
    "relax" which is a VERY warm colour (~2200 K colour temp) which also defaults to 50% brightness.

    I don't think I've seen these in person... how do you change their colour? In theory thats the ultimate colour temp choice... Although practice at the church says colour LEDs are not good at making "white" light thats not exactly what I'm looking for, more the warm "golden" of incandescence.

    Spec


    --- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
    * Origin: (21:3/101)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Ogg on Sat Apr 17 07:21:14 2021
    *** Quoting Ogg from a message to Warpslide ***

    I have a simple motion activated night-light (LED) plugged into the wall. It's more than adequate for those early morning missions to
    the bathroom.

    We had something similar at one point, but it was very finnicky. Picture standing at the toilet doing your thing and then the light decides you're no longer there. Now you're doing your thing in total darkness...

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs

    Never heard of those. They can be pretty fancy (and $s to match)
    with the bluetooth and programmability.

    Yeah, they can be pricy. We won a small set at a company Christmas party one year which was either one or two (white only) bulbs, a hub & a dimmer switch.

    That kind of dipped our toe in the water and then got the colour bulbs for
    the living room.


    Jay

    ... There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 17 07:27:00 2021
    Hello Warpslide!

    ** On Saturday 17.04.21 - 07:21, Warpslide wrote to Ogg:

    I have a simple motion activated night-light (LED) plugged
    into the wall. It's more than adequate..

    We had something similar at one point, but it was very
    finnicky. Picture standing at the toilet doing your thing
    and then the light decides you're no longer there. Now
    you're doing your thing in total darkness...

    Heheheh.. it does that too! But I just have to sway a little
    and it pops right back up. Or.. I just sit down for the whole
    business. :D



    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Spectre on Sat Apr 17 07:35:00 2021
    *** Quoting Spectre from a message to Warpslide ***

    That stated our foray into Phillips Hue bulbs in our living room

    I don't think I've seen these in person... how do you change their
    colour?

    There's an app for that! ;)

    We used to use the app to turn them on & off as well as change the colour.

    Then we got an Alexa device, so now we just ask her to do it for us:

    "Alexa, set the living room to relax"
    "Alexa, dim the living room"
    "Alexa, set the living room to white and set the living room to 75%"

    In theory thats the ultimate colour temp choice...

    There's also an app you can install that will sync the light colour to what you're watching on TV. It's a neat party trick, but we don't use it too often. It works really well with very colourful movies, so when showing friends we'd often queue up Rio (which has a lot of colourful parrots) and then watch the living room lights dance around at various colours & brightness.


    Jay

    ... MONEY TALKS...but all mine ever says is GOODBYE!

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)
  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Warpslide on Sat Apr 17 08:39:00 2021
    Hello Warpslide!

    ** On Saturday 17.04.21 - 07:35, Warpslide wrote to Spectre:

    Then we got an Alexa device, so now we just ask her to do it for us:

    "Alexa, set the living room to relax"
    "Alexa, dim the living room"
    "Alexa, set the living room to white and set the living room to 75%"

    Oh boy. One day, you will forget HOW to turn on the lights
    manually.


    --- OpenXP 5.0.49
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Ogg on Sat Apr 17 11:28:52 2021
    *** Quoting Ogg from a message to Warpslide ***

    Oh boy. One day, you will forget HOW to turn on the lights
    manually.

    I'm one step closer to the future I dreamed about as a kid watching Star
    Trek: TNG!

    Now if I could only get those conveyor belts installed in the floor like they had in The Jetson's... ;)


    Jay

    ... I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

    --- Telegard v3.09.g2-sp4/mL
    * Origin: Northern Realms | 289-424-5180 | bbs.nrbbs.net (21:3/110)