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On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 18:19:41 UTC, Rod Speed
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T i m Wrote in message:
Hi all,We have one of those 3 lamp ceiling spotlights
that
currently
has
3 x50W halogen lamps in it that I would like to change
to
LED
and
one
ofthe dimmer switches that was previously recommended
in
another
thread.

Do bear in mind that the quality of light from a dimmed
LED
is
completely different from a tungsten bulb. They don't
get
"warmer" as they dim.

They can do with the best designs like the Philips Hues.

No like some users they just get dimmer. You can change the
colour
of
the
light though

So they dont just get a dimmer. And you are free to set a
whole
series
of
intensity
and color settings so the color changes automatically as it
dims.
And
can
name
them too so you can have scenes with to intensity and white
you
want
too.

If yuo like fiddling

Or use what fiddling someone else has done.

I prefer to set such things myself.

Very easy with IFTTT

but for most turning down the brightness also affect the
colour
temperature , a similar thing happens with the sun , you get a
sunset.
For an LED to simulate that you'd have to set a preset, and
then
decide
just
how much and for how long, some of us have more interesting
things
to
do.

Or just have a few scenes, one for when you are watching TV when
its dark outside, one for say eating dinner, one for say sitting
around
reading books, one for say doing your hobbys or interests or
usenet
etc.

What a waste of time,

Nope, best way to do it.

As I expected a waste of time, for those people with working brains
anyway.


Mostly only use a few intensity and color
temp pairs for the real life situations they have and much easier
to tell it to use a particular scene when it can work it out for
itself
from the time of day, what devices like the TV are in use etc.

Much better to just tell the system that you want to turn the
TV on

How will the 'system' know ?

When you use IFTTT to initiate everything when you want to watch TV.

What do you mean by initiate everything ?

Everything you do when watching TV, turn the TV on,
turn the PVR on if you are watching something recorded,
have the lights the way you want then when watching
TV depending on the time of day and season.

I don't have such strict guidlines, for such things.

No strict guidelines involved. Even a terminal ****wit
such as yourself should realise that its a hell of a lot
more convenient to have a single button configure
everything relevant for watching TV and you then
select what you want to watch, than to have to
set each one manually.

My life is rather more analogue than perhaps your is.

Yes, you actually are that terminal a dinosaur.

For istance when a friend comes around she
likes the lights dimmed more than I usually do,

Trivial to have a config for her if she shows up much.

I also have the TV at differing volumes depending on what is one.

Trivial to have the single button set the most commonly
used volume and allow you to change it as appropriate.

Sometimes the TV is background noise while at other
times it's watched or listened to as the main source.

Trivial to have those two configs too. You could even get
real radical and call them background TV and watching TV.

reams of your even sillier **** flushed where it belongs