I am too excited about this Wow well hey all its Ashley Renee and welcome back to my sustainable travel lifestyle where I teach you how to live an adventurously green life right now you're watching my smart home series I regularly post videos about my Tesla and my smart home technology set up so if you're into that kind of thing make sure you subscribe to my channel so you can keep up with all of my smart tech adventures now on the last episode of my smart home series I talked about my smart home security setup but on this episode.
I want to get into lighting so let's dive right into it now I chose to light my home up with Philips hue light bulbs as well as these smart wireless dimmer switches now these are not just ordinary light bulbs they change colours you guys they can also sync with the music they can sync with your video games and your movies and you can also schedule them to come on whenever you want that's pretty cool and all with the touch of a button or even with voice commands so I want to get into exactly why I love my lighting setup so much so let's go over some of my favourite features so, first of all, I love that you can create a move for every single move in your house I've installed a cycle pretty much everywhere in my kitchen my living room my family room bedroom bathroom upstairs entertainment area and once we finish our basement we're gonna have the life all downstairs in the basement as well as you can imagine these light can really be great for parties.
Because they literally colorfully transform your entire house with the touch of a button they have over 16 million colors to choose from and you can control what lights you want to see where so if you want all of the lights to be the same color then you can do that maybe I want my kitchen lights to be blue as well as my family room or maybe I want my family room to be red and my kitchen lights to be blue or in this instance I really want you to be able to see me so I'm gonna turn this back to white so they have 60 million different colors and then also all different shades of white to choose from and as you can imagine this would be a really great party trick your friends will love it it's great for entertaining another cool thing about this app is they come with their own light recipes or you can create pretty sets of your own for your daily routine you can choose from four different white light presets that they have designed for relaxing reading concentrating or energizing for example this is the relaxed this is for reading this is for concentrating and this is for energizing they also have some colorful presets like for example this is savanna sunset which is a nice spire II orange this is tropical Twilight which is a nice purple color another cool thing about Phillips.
You like you don't even have to manually turn them on and off you can actually schedule them to come on and up whenever you want them to I remember back in the day when I had to plug in timers to my lamps in order to make this happen not anymore y'all you can create your own sleep routine by setting your lights to slowly turn on in the morning to gently wake you up and vice versa you can have them slowly turn off in the evening time you can also set your lights to automatically turn on and off whenever you're leaving or entering your home another really useful feature which is really good for energy savings is you can configure your lights to follow the timing of the sunset and the Sun Rise and a really handy thing to do is when you're on vacation you can randomize the way your lights come on so that way nobody knows if you're home or not okay so let's talk about a feature that I just think is beyond dope you can think your life with your music your movies and your video games like can you imagine how to make a party and you're playing music and the lights are just turning off and on to the beat it's like you're in a lounge or some kind of nightclub it's a super cool effect that I really really love and I cannot wait to test out on my next party.
That I have now in order to sync your life you need to download the cue sync to your desktop and pair it with your cue bridge just like you did with your cue app and I'll get into how to do all that later on in the video once that's done the lights will sync with what's playing on your computer I just tested this out with some Beyonce tracks and I can confirm it creates a very cool vibe now fYI I did have to do some troubleshooting when I first tried this out because it didn't work right away so if you have a Mac and you find that you download a few sync and it's not working try this because this is what works for me I went into my system preferences security and privacy selected the privacy table and I made sure the hue sync was checked under accessibility that fixed the problem the other thing I love about the Philips you lighting is all the different ways I can control it so for example as you guys know I can control it straight from my app I can control it straight from my smart wireless dimmer I see which is pretty cool I can control it from the hue sync which you downloads the desktop and I can also use voice commands so if you have a larger ecosystem like Google assistant or Alexa you can literally use your voice to control your lighting for example a lot of times I'll tell Google to turn the lights off I can even tell Google to turn it down to a certain percentage.
So for example I can tell Google to dim the light down to 10% and it'll do that I love that there are just so many different ways that I can control my entire light setup so we talked about all the features now let's talk about where you should get started and also how you go about installing these bad boys so first and foremost very important if you're just starting out with this you're gonna want to order the Philips hue starter kit because that's gonna come with a hue bridge which is very important as well as four different light bulbs to get you started now the Hubert is really important if you want this whole party to work because it is the brains of the system it's what communicates between of the light and your smart apps that you're using to control the lights now of course we needed way more than four bulbs so we bought the starter kit plus the ton of individual balls to finish setting up our entire house now this makes very little time to install especially if you use a light bulb changer for those hard to reach areas like my ceilings and it really really reduced the time you know as opposed to say using a ladder to have to do this don't do it the slow way get a light bulb changer I have this 11 foot pole light bulb changer kit and it is amazing all you have to do is attach the basket which is the part that grabs a light bulb to the pole you place the bulb a large side down into the basket you extend the pole and then you screw in the light bulb and it works in the reverse you can also use it to unscrew a light bulb and pull it out so simple make sure you do it the easy way and not the hard way guys the wireless dimmer switch is even easier because all you gotta do is stick these wherever you want and you don't have to do any drilling there's no mess like you literally just stick it onto your wall and you're done now once you have everything installed now it's time to actually connect your Philips hue light bulbs and your smart wireless dimmer switches to the Philips hue app which is available for both iOS and Android you do this with the hue bridge like I said earlier the hue bridge is what connects everything together you simply plug it in and then connect it to your router once you open the app and pair it with your bridge you can begin using the phone to control your Philips hue lighting set up y'all I cannot emphasize enough just how much I love my philips hue lighting setup it's one of the first smart home tech products that we got when we first moved in and I just found it to be incredibly useful I use it literally every single day and not only that it adds a lot of spice to situations that would otherwise be pretty ordinary so that's it for my smart tech video for today make sure you give this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more of my smart tag adventures I'm gonna have another one next week and just to give you a hint it might make you hungry look at this to be until next week you guys keep on living and adventurously dream life.
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