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Thread Number: 79686
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
GE is in trouble deep.... |
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| Post# 1035749 6/19/2019 at 23:30 (1,770 days old) by stricklybojack (South Hams Devon UK) | ||
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Take a look at this instruction vid for their light bulbs. CLICK HERE TO GO TO stricklybojack's LINK
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| Post# 1035751 , Reply# 1 6/19/2019 at 23:50 (1,770 days old) by sarahperdue (Alabama) | ||
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Post# 1035756 , Reply# 2 6/20/2019 at 01:35 (1,770 days old) by MattL  (Flushing, MI) |
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I've got a dozen or so smart bulbs around the house, all work as desired. Occasionally I reprogram they, the type I use only needs to be turner on/off 3 time to reset. The GE version is way overkill. Most of my bulbs can be color tuned as well, and I set them to match the rest of the lighting in the room. | ||
| Post# 1035820 , Reply# 3 6/20/2019 at 16:22 (1,769 days old) by whatsername (Denver, CO) | ||
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Post# 1035830 , Reply# 4 6/20/2019 at 18:07 (1,769 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Post# 1035831 , Reply# 5 6/20/2019 at 18:09 (1,769 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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My neighbor Missy bought her mother one of the LED bulbs that has a battery backup. I decided to buy one and gave it to one of my friends for Christmas. Haven't heard how his works, but I did see a light on in Missy's mothers living room one night when the power was off. | ||
| Post# 1035835 , Reply# 6 6/20/2019 at 18:42 (1,769 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
I must be living under a giant rock
I wasn't aware that smart bulbs even existed and assumed that video was a comedic hoax.
The day I'm forced to purchase a light bulb that needs to be programmed is the day I break it against a hard surface and use the jagged edges to slit my wrists. I hate that I'm turning into my cyclical 80 year old grandfather (may he RIP) at half his age. I guess it's just part of the aging process. | ||
| Post# 1035850 , Reply# 7 6/20/2019 at 22:06 (1,769 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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I must be living under a giant rock too, and some of these ridiculous smart devices make no sense to me what so ever. I may have been born in 1999 (which makes me 20 years old), but sometimes I feel like I was born in 1960 (lol) since anything modern hasn’t appealed to me for as long as I can remember.
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Post# 1035861 , Reply# 8 6/21/2019 at 00:04 (1,769 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa) |
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 None of this is new, it's just evolving and changing shape. Remember the home automation products from BSR and X10? You could turn lights on and off from your couch, computer, nightstand, or telephone. Or have them do what you wish automatically by proximity when you come home. Appliances of all types, even 240V, could also be switched on and off, by timer or by command. Including starting music, or changing what track is playing. Each light or device needed to be programmed, as did the controllers. That was the late 1970s. | ||
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Post# 1036025 , Reply# 11 6/22/2019 at 02:52 (1,767 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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X10, Z-Wave, SmartThings, HUE, Sengled, OH MY
I know we are on the opposite end of many of you but we're with Matt at our house. We have many smart devices and take full advantage of this new technology. My most recent situation is just the other night. After we had gone to bed we had a terrible storm here, wind gusts of 70MPH according to the news. We woke up to part of one of our trees on our front porch. I was able to go back on the camera and find the exact minute it happened. I saw the wind, the rain, the tree shaking and then falling. It was actually pretty cool to watch while at the same time a little sickening to see the damage happen. But what great documentation for the insurance company.
A couple of weeks ago I was at the grocery store when the UPS man rang the bell with a package. We didn't want this sitting on the porch so through the doorbell I had a conversation with him and convinced him to leave the package in the garage (hubby works for the USPS and he knows us). I was able to open the garage door so he could put the package in and then close it when he was done. All from the grocery store.
We pull in the garage and unlock the door to the house with a touch pad. It unlocks the door, disarms the house and after dark turns on certain lights all while sending a text to my phone that this has happened.
Our case may be extreme and it isn't for everyone but I've been in Technology since the 80s and never get enough of this stuff. The 'Technology' folder on my phone has gone to a second page. Too much? Not for me. | ||
| Post# 1036206 , Reply# 13 6/23/2019 at 19:32 (1,766 days old) by whatsername (Denver, CO) | ||
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For me, having the smart devices in an apartment was a huge improvement. Since the apartment was built in the 60s, outlets were few and far between, and always behind furniture, and none of them were switched. Smart bulbs and outlets meant no more fumbling in the dark for lamps. When I moved to a new construction home, everything moved right over as all the devices are mine and they just needed to be able to find my wifi network and they were good to go.
We can be sure we've closed the garage door when we're away from home. We have lights that come on when we arrive home, and lights that come on 30 minutes before sunset but only when someone is in the house. In Colorado we very rarely use the AC outside of July and August. We use window fans instead. It's great to be able to turn them on and off without walking all over the house, even when we're away from home and the temp has increased or decreased significantly from when we left. | ||
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