I want to solve a simple problem. Namely, I want a red light to come on in the hallway and bathroom at night instead of a white light. Optimally I want it to be automatic, but I'll survive if I have some kind of switch on my phone and manually switch it.
Assumptions:
The white light has to be nice, in the sense of the kind of quality that regular bulbs give. I used to have RGB on a remote control and the white light was hideous.
The red light has to be red, not some orange light. To make matters worse these RGB bulbs with the ugly white light had a beautiful red
.
I don't want to spend extra money on switches, so I would like the bulbs to synchronise their state - the colour they are supposed to light up to - with the control panel when they are powered up. I want to be able to change the colour of the bulb when it has no power, and for it to load the state from the control panel that I have set for it when the power is switched on.
Does anyone have any ideas?
P.S. From experimentation.
I recently tested sets from Ikea and from Philips.
Both give a white light ok, but the red light from Ikea is strongly orange, it looks like there are white LEDs in there in addition to the red one
Philips has beautiful colours and is ok.
Both bulbs do not support synchronisation, although the Philips bulbs worked in such a way that if a colour was set and I changed it in the app when the power was cut to a different colour, when the power was switched on they had neither the colour from before I switched off nor the colour I had set it to, they just went back to the default colour, i.e. something was synchronising there, but completely out of sync as I would like. After a software update, the bulbs stopped syncing and ignored the colour change that was happening when the bulbs were off.
Assumptions:
The white light has to be nice, in the sense of the kind of quality that regular bulbs give. I used to have RGB on a remote control and the white light was hideous.
The red light has to be red, not some orange light. To make matters worse these RGB bulbs with the ugly white light had a beautiful red
.
I don't want to spend extra money on switches, so I would like the bulbs to synchronise their state - the colour they are supposed to light up to - with the control panel when they are powered up. I want to be able to change the colour of the bulb when it has no power, and for it to load the state from the control panel that I have set for it when the power is switched on.
Does anyone have any ideas?
P.S. From experimentation.
I recently tested sets from Ikea and from Philips.
Both give a white light ok, but the red light from Ikea is strongly orange, it looks like there are white LEDs in there in addition to the red one
Philips has beautiful colours and is ok.
Both bulbs do not support synchronisation, although the Philips bulbs worked in such a way that if a colour was set and I changed it in the app when the power was cut to a different colour, when the power was switched on they had neither the colour from before I switched off nor the colour I had set it to, they just went back to the default colour, i.e. something was synchronising there, but completely out of sync as I would like. After a software update, the bulbs stopped syncing and ignored the colour change that was happening when the bulbs were off.
