Best Location For Philips Hue Motion Sensor (Range & Angle Is Important!)
The Philips Hue indoor motion sensor is quite a useful device: when it detects motion, it allows you to automatically turn your lights on to pre-set colors and brightness levels,…
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Philips Hue’s Motion Sensor With Pets: Is It Pet Friendly?
Picture the scene: you arrive home after a long day’s work, and as you walk through the front door, your Hue Lightstrips automatically illuminate – as do your hallway Hue…
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The Difference Between Philips Hue White & White Ambiance
I’ll openly admit that when I first started looking into smart lighting, I got confused by all the different terms. Should I buy WiFi or ZigBee bulbs? Do I want…
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New Video – ZigBee (& WiFi) Smart Light Strip Options – When Philips Hue Is Just Too Expensive!
If you’re looking to add smart light strips to your home but you find that Philips Hue’s Lightstrip Plus options are too expensive, what options are open to you? This…
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Effective Smart Lighting For The Home Office
Home working has never been more popular. Whilst just 8% of the global workforce worked from home in 2019 (around 260 million people), the 2020 global pandemic has seen the…
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New Video – Kitchen Smart Lighting: Ideas, Considerations & What I’m Planning To Do
This video explores adding smart lighting within your kitchen, looking generally at what you need to consider and different ideas based on other people’s kitchen smart lighting projects. I also…
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The Ultimate ZigBee Smart Light Strip Roundup
Smart light strips are an awesome invention – they can instantly add interesting yet subtle lighting to various areas around your house, and their color can be quickly changed or…
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Can LIFX Bulbs Sync With Music and TV?
One of the nice features of smart bulbs is that not only can then change color (and be dimmed), but since they’re a digital product, they can be programmed to…
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Philips Hue Lightstrips: Bending, Cutting & Re-Attaching
Philips Hue’s Lightstrips have some really nice features, and they can work really well in various places in your house – especially behind your TV, and in your kitchen. In-fact,…
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Smart Lighting For A Kitchen: A Practical Guide
When I first moved into my house, it was fairly dark due to it just having two simple, A19 bulbs at either end of the kitchen-diner room. Whilst I have…
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