Ario: Smart lighting
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@arioda I'd also like to know how low the brightness can go!
Edit: I'd like to word it as, how dim can it go?
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@timpster I can only post every couple hours. We can dim pretty smoothly down to zero, like 1% I think and more importantly up from it. My experience with Hue is that it lurches on like at 20% and does weird color things on the way up. If you wanted to so a hack to make a lamp to do what we do and be able to turn it off and on again with Hue, you would have trouble and it would be expensive with several like four bulbs to be as bright well OK with four bulbs it would be brigher than ours is now maybe. Their higher CCT output is pretty weeny.
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@arioda said:
@timpster I can only post every couple hours. We can dim pretty smoothly down to zero, like 1% I think and more importantly up from it. My experience with Hue is that it lurches on like at 20% and does weird color things on the way up. If you wanted to so a hack to make a lamp to do what we do and be able to turn it off and on again with Hue, you would have trouble and it would be expensive with several like four bulbs to be as bright well OK with four bulbs it would be brigher than ours is now maybe. Their higher CCT output is pretty weeny.
I own the Hue lights, and I was thinking that the price is reasonable as it's about 4x as bright. The color spectrum is also listed in the "fluxometer" it's in the menu that starts out "iPad 2" and it's one from the very bottom of the list, so you may need to keep the menu open and scroll down. Yes the spectrum is VERY low in blue, and too high in what looks like a purplish color. That's why I brought up the concern for the color, and knowing that it will look good, and I can chooose where I want it is great!
I'm definitely getting two lamps (but I want 5 or 10!!). I'll even let
some ofall of my birthday money go towrads it, just to sweeten the deal and not break the bank. Thank you for the quick and informative answers, this is great!Also, I just upvoted a few of your posts, because they are great, and also to get you out of the time limit for posting when you would like. You can disregard those notifications!
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@timpster Most kind of you with the upvotes. Hopefully I can recognize your order when it comes through. We depend on every one to put the project together so they all mean a great deal to us. Thanks!
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Bumping this thread- 32 days left to go and they're already more than double the goal. Nice work @arioda and friends
@lorna
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@lorna Yeah I hope I have enough time to get a couple, they are going a bit faster than I thought they would still.
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@lorna Thanks for reaching out @timpster and @TwoCables your feedback is awesome. Thanks folks!
