The Complete Smart Lighting Guide
Ultimate convenience!
Save money!
Conserve Energy!
Make your home safer!
That sounds like a cheesy infomercial, but smart lights can actually deliver on all of these promises. I enjoy these benefits in my house today, but it wasn’t always that way. It is critical that you choose the right products and set them up in the right way or you won’t get the full benefits that smart home lighting can provide. This smart lighting guide will ensure that you don't make the same mistakes I made.
What Hue Can Do: Introducing the Philips Hue Smart Lights into your Home
The easiest solution for smart home lighting!
The Philips Hue Hub and lights are the fastest way to automate your smart home lights. Setup the Philips Hue Hub, install the smart bulb in one of your lamps, and you are ready to go.
Control the Hue lights with your voice using Amazon Echo or automate the lights with SmartThings.
The Philips Hue lights are the best smart light bulbs for your home.
Review: SmartThings Motion Sensor
Automation and security.
Use the SmartThings motion sensor to turn on the lights or notify you of an intruder.
In this SmartThings motion sensor guide, we discuss uses, project ideas, product specs and more.
How To: “Turn on the Lights” with Alexa
Just say, "Alexa. Turn on the Lights."
Alexa knows where you are and what lights you want to turn on!
Speak naturally to Alexa when controlling the lights in your Smart Home. This is the easiest way for you and your guests to use voice control of lights.
Use this guide to setup context aware lighting control with your Amazon Echo device.
Amazon Echo: Create a Custom Voice Command
Create your own custom voice command with Alexa!
Create a phrase and choose what Alexa will do when it is said. A custom Amazon Alexa command is a great way to control your smart lights with your voice.
This guide will show you how to create an Alexa routine with a custom voice command in the Alexa app.
How To: Setup Light Groups with Amazon Alexa
Control multiple lights with one voice command with Alexa!
Group light bulbs in one lamp or group all the lights in a room. The smart home groups feature in the Alexa App is perfect for making your voice lighting control even better.
Use this guide to easily create your Alexa light group.
Voice Controlled Lights: Easily Connect Amazon Echo and Philips Hue
In 3 minutes, you can control your Philips Hue lights with your voice!
Easily connect the Philips Hue Hub to your Amazon Echo for voice control over your smart light bulbs. Turn the Hue light bulbs on and off, change their color or turn on a scene just by asking Alexa.
This is a quick and simple guide on how to connect your Amazon Alexa and Hue devices.
Review – Amazon Echo Voice Control
Alexa home automation and voice control for you smart home!
You see it in the movies and now you can have it in your home with the Amazon Echo devices.
"Alexa" - Turn on the lights. Set the temperature to 68. Turn on HGTV. Open the garage. Turn on the fan. Open the pod bay doors.
Anything your smart home can do can be controlled by your voice. It's Alexa home automation!
Home Automation Hub: Samsung SmartThings Review
DIY home automation made easy.
The Samsung SmartThings hub is the brains of your Smart Home. Connect all of your Smart Home devices to the SmartThings hub and you can build all of your DIY home automation ideas with the SmartThings App.
This is where the magic happens!
Create a Smart Home – Step 1
Congratulations! You are about to embark on the fun, frustrating, and addictive journey of building a DIY smart home.
Chances are, you already have one or more components of a smart home (i.e. Amazon Echo, Google Home, Sonos Speakers, Hue Lights, Samsung SmartThings, etc.). Getting all of the products to work together can be as frustrating as getting my kids to play together nicely. But when it happens, it can almost be magical. And the good part…Anyone Can Do This!