Submitted 5 months ago by SSUPII@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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We accidentally installed a white light bulb in the hallway outside my bedroom. It made me feel so pissed off and on edge every time my door was open and someone turned that light on.
Once we swapped it to a warm bulb I was much more chill.
I do keep a tunable light bulb in a task lamp, but the rest of the lighting in the house is warm.
There are ones that are adjustable. I don’t have to choose one or the other.
This is the kind of constructive, rational and informed opinion that flies in the very face of the concept of internet forums and everything for which they stand. If you won’t rabidly advocate for an extreme position on an insignificant issue with an irrationally vitriolic diatribe, what are you even doing here? This is Lemmy Shitpost. Please observe the appropriate decorum, and comment accordingly. So fuck you and the ISP you rode in on. You can have my daylight bulbs when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.
ha! imagine shilling for light bulbs that only has one color! couldn’t be me!
(am i doing it right?)
Thank you for the phrase “and the ISP you rode in on” which I will be shamelessly stealing from you
But you do.
You just choose every minute of every day instead of each time when you run out to Home Depot so you can finish whatever you were doing.
I love my warm bulbs!
…wait…
I love my daylight bulbs
Daylight bulbs only belong in the bathroom. That’s the only place I want to see things that bright. Also, if there’s anyplace you want to feel sterile and hospital like, wouldn’t it be the bathroom?
I want going to the bathroom to feel like the scene in Fear & Loathing where there’s a dude getting high off LSD by licking it off another dude’s sleeves.
the kitchen too
Gimme 5k temperature light bulbs
Blue lights suck. Yellow lights suck. White lights (6000K full-spectrum) are good, but more expensive and harder to find.
There’s a solution here you’re not seeing… RGB lights. Setting the hue on the fly to match what I need has been pretty neat. Pure white for work, natural white for relaxing, red only for venting in the summer since insects can’t see it, green and blue for dance nights…
Though IME, the light quality of a real white LED is better than the mix of an RGB led. Also interesting: the cooler the LED is the higher the quality of the light.
Most “RGB” lights also have 2 white ones of different CCT for a more natural white.
Not doubting you, but how do you define the quality of the light?
Most of them are so expensive, though.
No, Philips, I am not spending $50 on a single bulb, that is madness.
wait insects can’t see red? does that extend to spiders? i keep all my windows and doors closed all the time even when its sweating hot because i’m terrified of being invaded by insects and spiders
As someone with shit vision, I also want my house lit up like a hospital.
For the people saying “5kK+ in the office, 3kK- in the bedroom” what do you use in your kitchen? In your bathroom?
Adjustable temperature bulbs and local control/automation
The correct answer.
4k
I want my home to have full range color equivalent to open windows. But I prefer my lights to change color with the sun so as not to mess with my circadian rhythm. Incandescent color bulbs just remind me of being a kid visiting the elderly. I’m mostly a “open the blinds instead of turning on a light” purist during the day.
I live my smart lights for this. I can change them at my whim. By default they’re brighter and whiter during the day, slowly moving dimmer and yellow after sunset. Or I can make them whatever other color but I do that pretty rarely.
It’s also fully offline and no WiFi used.
You can’t just sell me on your smart lights and not name the brand/model
Brand/model isn’t important.
You’ll need a HomeAsstant controller. You can buy one premade premade or you can look up tutorials and make your own with a raspberry pi or old laptop or PC. Then you’ll need a ZigBee controller, this is a radio that will talk to your smart lights and other accessories.
You then get ZigBee compatible lights. Phillips Hue is the top of the line but so stupidily expensive I’d never recommend it. Innr makes good ones at half the cost. ThirdReality makes decent ones too for even cheaper.
You’ll probably also want some ZigBee switches to have physical controls for your lights instead of just by phone. They make models that replace your actual light switches. Or, if you rent like me and can’t modify that, you can get battery powered ones that stick on the wall. Battery life is like a year or more so not too bad.
That’ll do it. You can also use HomeAssistant now that you’ve got it. It’s a home automation software that’s open source and locally controlled. You can hook up much more than your lights. Smart plugs, your TV, 3D printer, fans, cameras, tons of sensors, your thermostat, robovac, etc. Then make automations that connect them. For example my living room ZigBee switch, one press up toggles the main lights. Double press for the lamp. Hold down and it turns off all lights and the TV. Some lights like my closet light are controlled by a door sensor instead of a switch, so they come on automatically. Some people prefer motion sensors so all lights are automatic. Turn off stuff automatically when you leave, etc.
Your piss colored light feels like I am living in the 80s and we haven’t invented halogen bulb yet.
I use one in my houseplants. Actual house plants - there’s a dispensary a block away from me for the rare times I feel like getting high.
Is kinda sad you have to specify.
Nah, I just wanted to cut off the tired old jokes.
3000K or GTFO
You guys use lightbulbs?
Whale oil gang unite!
This is the kind of comment that motivates me to read the entire section.
Warm in living room, bedroom, and hallway.
Cold everywhere else. So, bathroom, kitchen, garage, and closet.
Warm where you want cozy. Cold where you want honesty.
lack of honesty in the bedroom sounds bad, yet the opposite also sounds terrible
Just buy every K value randomly to get all the benefits
Don’t forget to take your ketamine first
thats why I eat Special K every morning, so I can have a heavenly glow right out of my rectum
FYI, CRI is more important for image forming cells. CCT that includes a specific blue (440-495nm) may improve waking.
I have a light fixture with adjustable light temperature. Colder light helps me to wake up faster.
Recently kitted put the whole apartment with Philips Hue lights. Love my colourful jungle vibe showers.
Warm lights in bedroom lamps daylight in ceiling lights. Though it always looks like my bedroom is on fire when I look down a dark hallway towards it.
Not every lightbulb is intended for living rooms. Some are designed for workplaces…
White lamps are only for looking for things we lost while operating under warm lamps. Also for when doing more than 1 thing in the kitchen.
I don’t mind a daylight bid for overhead lights, but they have to be supplemented with warmer lights elsewhere around the room
Por que los dos?
For my bedroom I have the ceiling light with two 13W(100W equiv.) for when I need the light and a 6W(6W equiv.) GE ‘vintage’ LED in a nightstand lamp for the rest of the time.
Why not just buy a dimmer switch?
I already have one, but not for color tone. The ‘vintage’ is supposed to simulate candlelight, while daylight simulates the sun.
Imagine having a bulb that you can’t change the colour of at will.
Imagine having a bulb that doesn’t require an account
Zigbee or Thread does this. Example (now that I use this one): us.aqara.com/products/led-bulb-t2-gu10
Imagine having both
ZigBee baybeee. Fully local, offline, forever. Nobody can stop them working.
Yeah, I bet those grapes are sour af and require account to actually eat
cooler light is more popular in places where it gets hot: Middle East, South East Asia countries prefer using cooler tones because it gives feeling of freshness and cooleness
Aneb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My sisters can’t decide which ones she wants to use, so every room has a different lighting hue. Most rooms have different bulbs for each lamp, so hot and cold are right next to eachothert
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
I have a somewhat basic home automation, and my lights are programmed to be cooler during daylight hours (where necessary, desk lamp, corridor, etc), and they become warmer at night. The reverse happens early morning in winter, where I wake up while still dark.