LED Light bulbs?

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Bougie

Ambience during an orgy is important.

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Almost every bulb in the house is Philips Hue now. Basement ceiling is 100% Hue colour.

When COVID is over, I'll come over and turn off all your power switches.

[mr2mike]

More so than ever I want to learn how to hack the Vue bulbs.

[ZenOps]

Dubai bulbs are best (for energy efficiency), but difficult to find in warm white. Overengineered because of hot climate and other factors. Of course though, wrong initial voltage for North America.

[prae]

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Dubai bulbs are best (for energy efficiency), but difficult to find in warm white. Overengineered because of hot climate and other factors. Of course though, wrong initial voltage for North America.

wow! Cool vid. I follow bigclive but missed this.

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Well TIL most led bulbs yellow over time. I had one of our under cabinet ones fail, so bought a replacement. As soon as I turned it on, the difference between it, and the rest was crazy. It was so much whiter, I thought I bought the wrong colour temp. Then I realized that what I was seeing is what they USED to look like 6 years ago when we replaced the cabinets.

I looked into it, and I guess the epoxy they use to seal the bulb can go yellow over time in a hot environment. Under cabinet lights don't get much airflow, so they run pretty hot.

Now I have to replace them all ffs.

Pic doesn't do it justice, but you can see the difference a bit. Left is new, right is old.

[killramos]

I mean there will be colour variations between manufacturers and bulb types too.

The smart move is to buy at least a few extra bulbs whenever you replace a whole set.

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I mean there will be colour variations between manufacturers and bulb types too.

The smart move is to buy at least a few extra bulbs whenever you replace a whole set.

Same bulbs, same manufacturer, same part number. Like I said, I didn't even realize how they yellowed, but after replacing it I remembered they did look that white the first year. So buying extra wouldn't have helped as they would be just as white.

[mr2mike]

Rub a highlighter on the lens of the new bulb.

(probably a Red Green fix)

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When COVID is over, I'll come over and turn off all your power switches.

I had been fighting with my hue motion sensor this past week. Kept detecting motion but no lights, app was showing they were on, though it was sensitivity so kept fiddling with it. Light switch was off

[ExtraSlow]

Current thoughts on BR30 / PAR long neck style bulbs in a "soft white" color? Philips "65w equivalent" seems to be $6-8 each. Going to be a long time before I replace my ~40ish pot lights if that's the price. That being said, long life and reliability would be nice, even if it's a little more money, because changing bulbs is for suckers. Are those "amazon basics" bulbs any good?

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Current thoughts on BR30 / PAR long neck style bulbs in a "soft white" color? Philips "65w equivalent" seems to be $6-8 each. Going to be a long time before I replace my ~40ish pot lights if that's the price. That being said, long life and reliability would be nice, even if it's a little more money, because changing bulbs is for suckers. Are those "amazon basics" bulbs any good?

I bought those Phillips pot lights and have no complaints. I have 5000K for the two outside garage ones and 3000K for everywhere else. But I'm letting the old ones burn out first.
Kurt Cobain taught me that it's better to burn out than fade away.

[killramos]

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Current thoughts on BR30 / PAR long neck style bulbs in a "soft white" color? Philips "65w equivalent" seems to be $6-8 each. Going to be a long time before I replace my ~40ish pot lights if that's the price. That being said, long life and reliability would be nice, even if it's a little more money, because changing bulbs is for suckers. Are those "amazon basics" bulbs any good?

Wait until HD puts them on sale. Buy out HD and get incredibly dirty looks from the people who work there about “how many pot lights could you possibly have”.

I think the time I did that is a few pages back

[96integra]

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Current thoughts on BR30 / PAR long neck style bulbs in a "soft white" color? Philips "65w equivalent" seems to be $6-8 each. Going to be a long time before I replace my ~40ish pot lights if that's the price. That being said, long life and reliability would be nice, even if it's a little more money, because changing bulbs is for suckers. Are those "amazon basics" bulbs any good?

I just purchased the Luminus BR30 from Costco and Philips and Ecosmart ones from HD. All three looked the same in soft white so I kept the Costco ones since they're cheaper plus Costco warranty. I'll be picking up the PAR30 5000K ones from Costco for outdoor.

[heavyD]

Ecosmart bulbs are the only LED bulbs that I have had fail on me.

[colsankey]

Dipped into the Philips Hue world for some new lighting and scored a bridge deal as well.

I was able to sync the phone to my light strip plus, and setup the bridge on the main floor, and transferred both lightstrips to the bridge. Now im trying to add the 2 A19 white bulbs upstairs and cant get either to be picked up.

Setup: Bridge main floor, Lighstip plus downstairs, lightstrip plus upstairs (~5m from bridge) and A19s upstairs in the ceiling, ~2 m from lightstrip hue controller.

Ive got my phone 2 feet from the A19 lights and can not get them to sync for the life of me. Tried several power cycles, tried restarting the app and my phone.

I assumed with zigbee the lightstrips, with a good connection to the bridge, would be a link for the A19s. do the bulbs have to be in range of the bridge? gonna be a pain if I have to bring a desk lamp to site beside my hub just to connect the bulbs.

[Tik-Tok]

If you're using the bridge, holding your phone closer to the bulbs doesn't help, only if you are using Bluetooth. That said, there's no reason they shouldn't be connecting, unless the bulbs you bought aren't the newer Bluetooth type.

Are you using the Hue Bluetooth app or the normal Hue app?

[colsankey]

ive got the hue bluetooth app installed, all the lightstrings are v4 with bluetooth, I should double check the A19s, but they came with the v2 hub, so they should be bluetooth as well.

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If you have the hub, use the normal Hue app and see what happens.

Edit: v2 bridge doesn't mean Bluetooth, it came out 5 years ago, and the Bluetooth bulbs were only released last year.

You either use 100% Bluetooth bulbs with the Hue Bluetooth App, or a mix with a bridge and the Hue App. You can't run both on one app.

[colsankey]

Thanks, I'll take another shot tonight, it looks like the A19s are not bluetooth after all, but the lightstrings were (and the first I tried to sync) so will try the other app.

This worked, A19s weren't bluetooth after all, and my hub didn't seem to be connecting cleanly to anything so a factor reset and importing it into the Hue app (non BT) let me link everything.