Internet enabled light bulbs

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lim ... reinvented

Utterly pointless and unnecessary.

I want some so very much.

Malabelm · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:39

They'll never come out.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:40

You can get remote controlled LED bulb's on eBay already.

Thought about getting some for my disco room studio.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3W-RGB-GU10-l ... 2a23076d34

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

Can I control them over the internet? No? Not interested.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:51

Trooper wrote:

Can I control them over the internet? No? Not interested.

Yeah, you order them online.

AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

Zardoz wrote:

You can get remote controlled LED bulb's on eBay already.

Thought about getting some for my disco room studio.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3W-RGB-GU10-l ... 2a23076d34

Can you control more that one bulb with the remote or is it 1 remote to 1 bulb?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16641

These look exactly like something that you would play with for about five minutes, then just use as ordinary bulbs for a while after you get bored of having disco lighting in every room and then finally swap for normal bulbs because they're actually a bit shit.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

markg wrote:

These look exactly like something that you would play with for about five minutes, then just use as ordinary bulbs for a while after you get bored of having disco lighting in every room and then finally swap for normal bulbs because they're actually a bit shit.

Exactly. I still want them.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 13:42

asfish wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

You can get remote controlled LED bulb's on eBay already.

Thought about getting some for my disco room studio.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3W-RGB-GU10-l ... 2a23076d34

Can you control more that one bulb with the remote or is it 1 remote to 1 bulb?

I have no idea.

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

Found some more EBay auctions for these and called a guy, he said you can control more than one.

They need to be in the same room as the remote has limits and also all the bulbs would have to be the same colour at the same time

I may order 8 as my house is full of recessed spot lights (3W RGB GU10 type)

My wife is not keen, at the last house we had I replaced all the ligh switches with infra red dimmers and controlled the lights from the all in one remote

She made me promise not to do this in our current house.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26104

Hehe, this glimpse into the future from the Forum Past Predictatron is quite funny. Anyhoo, I have just found out that you can get WiFi enabled irons.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2019 16:36

I bought some remote controlled lights from Ikea and they're ace. I should have put the remote control higher up though as my girls keep on messing with it.

Not internet enabled however.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

My Hue setup:

https://twitter.com/PenLlawen/status/11 ... 8041948160

Umm. Sure. Definitely not all of them...

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— Richard Gaywood (@PenLlawen) March 13, 2019

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Actually, that's outdated, I have three more lights and one more controller in the office now.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Oh, that's only the lights. I also have ~8 switches and 4 motion/temperature/light level sensors.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 26104

All our lights are internet ones, apart from one in the centre hallway. I like bring able to turn them on and off when I’m away, also to turn Darwin’s light on from my bed, so he gets up and comes into my room to watch Hey Duggee when he’s woken up without me having to get up myself.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2019 17:08

markg wrote:

These look exactly like something that you would play with for about five minutes, then just use as ordinary bulbs for a while after you get bored of having disco lighting in every room and then finally swap for normal bulbs because they're actually a bit shit.

This aged well

myp · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2019 17:09

I’m not a big fan of IoT in general, but lighting is definitely a brilliant use case. I think we’re going to get some Hue bulbs at some point.

Is the starter kit a good place to…ahem…start?

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10174

Yep. Wait for Amazon black Friday or a sale on meethue.com - last black Friday there were ~40% discounts on Amazon and a 3 for 2 on the website. Makes them "affordable".

Worth the premium just for the smooth on/off fades.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed May 15, 2019 17:47

Zardoz wrote:

markg wrote:

These look exactly like something that you would play with for about five minutes, then just use as ordinary bulbs for a while after you get bored of having disco lighting in every room and then finally swap for normal bulbs because they're actually a bit shit.

This aged well

To be fair that's pretty much my opinion of them.

They're all right.

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