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Philips Hue FAQ
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darragh o meara wrote: »Im sure youve all seen this already but the smart devices for sale in Lidl at the moment will all link to the Hue app. I picked up a few of the smart sockets and bulbs and so far so good.
Did you get the smart extension lead ? Was looking at it but not sure if it works with Alexa
Tired of manually turning off the Xmas lights before heading to bed.....First world problems
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Irish Gunner wrote: »Did you get the smart extension lead ? Was looking at it but not sure if it works with Alexa
Tired of manually turning off the Xmas lights before heading to bed.....First world problems
Not yet, I was waiting to find out if the sockets on it were individually switchable or all on the one switch.
I have added mine to the christmas lights, have the tree and the outside lights plugged into an ext lead and the smart socket on the wall connected to it. Quick setup in the Hue app and I have them on a schedule.0 -
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Please do share some pics!!!
Our guest room, as an example.
The entire house has these chandeliers everywhere. Some with 5 bulbs, some with 8 bulbs. All with small bayonet fittings. And the majority were old 30W bulbs. So with 300 bulbs across the place, that's a draw of approx 9 kW just from lights
I figured, the best thing was just basically go smart home.
Now .. 300 Philips Hue bulbs would cost a fortune. Especially color ones. We only got those for the living and game room. Every other room, I've got warm white Ikea trådfri bulbs at 8 EUR a piece. Luckily they decreased the price just at the start of the first lockdown (from 15 EUR before). Ikea also has the E14 to small bayonet adapters at dirt cheap pricing (I think 1.50 EUR for two).
To avoid, that the lights physically get switched off, I've used faceplates for the existing switches. (in the picture, that wasn't fitted yet).
Here is an example:
I've used various different switches: Hue Smart button as above, Hue dimmer switch, Hue Tap switch, Friends of Hue Smart switch, etc. Most of them mounted in the same manner.
So should your lights go wonky, you can pop the plate and get access to the physical switch underneath, but nobody is able to turn the lights off physically normally.
The speaker lamps in the picture are Ikea Sonos lamps, also with smart bulbs in them.
All of that is then also tied in with Alexa devices across the house and with Hue motion sensors in the hallways and outside. That way, you don't have to give guests access to every single hub or the app at all. All of this is also tied into OpenHAB running on an Odroid board.
I was in Lidl today to grab the last couple of Zigbee LED strips, they had on the shelf. The Lidl bulbs and led strips pair with the Hue hub without problems. So it's another nice cheap option, as long as we can get them.
As I said, I've got a mixture of Philips Hue and Ikea bulbs here. But I also have bulbs from Müller, Innr and now Lidl. I also have Gledopto led strip drivers, that also work on the Philips Hue hub.
Motion sensors generally don't work across the brands. Lidl's powerstrip seemingly also won't work with the Hue hub, but their single switched sockets will. I also have Innr switched sockets, that work just dandy.
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or maybe the fact that Emmerdale is absolute tripe.
That's the problem right there ( add's gradients strip to the shopping list ).
I do have 2 Sync boxes, but I'm using a normal strips with one tv and 2 play lights plus a strip with the one in the livingroom.
Anyhow .. I got my hands on a few more left overs in Lidl today. One of them was the switched socket.
The other socket there is the INNR switched Zigbee socket. The Lidl (Silvercrest) one is much chunkier. What also is interesting, that the Lidl one is fused, the INNR one isn't.
Both have an on/off button and both are rated 13A .... which is a lot better than the genuine Hue one. Can't remember, what it's rated for, but it's only enough to drive a lamp of it. So these are a much better pick.
The INNR one, I've used for over half a year. Can't fault it.
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