These lights don't need a controller, have polished iOS and Adroid Apps, a programming API https://www.yeelight.com/en_US/developer, and integration with Domoticz home automation software. (I helped with the the integration and think these lights are currently the best option considering price/performance)
done, thanks
These are only 600 lumen, far too dim for a room light.
True they are 600 lumen, which is more than enough for my home. They are not bright enough for a work/study/or? environment.
I like to keep it dim to keep things romantic at home… for myself… and by myself :/
When I'm alone, I enjoy darkness
Gotta set the mood right for nighttime activities aye ?
You can overclock it if you need more light
That's not necessarily true — if you have a small room and it is the only light in the room, it may be sufficient, but that depends on the area and shape of the space, the light transmittance of the light fixture it's used in, the function of the space, the throw angle and height that it's mounted at, as well as ambient light from adjacent spaces or sunlight.
In simplest terms you can refer to recommended minimum residential lighting levels, measured in Lux (=Lumens/m²), this calculator can do some basic math for you:
http://www.houseplanshelper.com/lighting-calculation.html
For commercial/office/industrial workspaces there are Australian Standard 1680.2.2 as well as WorkSafe and OH&S standards that apply to different spaces, which are far more rigorous.
While 600lm would be low for an office task space, it may be sufficient for a bedroom or living area with a radius of ~1800mm.
Are these secure or vulnerable to Russian hackers ??
Are these secure or vulnerable to Russian hackers ??
Russian hackers ONLY? Russians aren't the only ones who are hacking. Are you asking if these devices have the same vulnerabilities as those infected with the Mirai botnet?
Russian hackers have already infiltrated my home, so I can say with 100% certainty they are vulnerable to Russian hackers.
No no no, In Soviet Russia home infiltrates you.
Hands down best Simpsons moment.
No, not the Russian hackers. Chineese Govt. might be spying in this case.
I have no idea what Domoticz is. But are you suggesting these items can be used for home automation without the Mi Home software?
You can use Mi Home, the Yeelight App, or Domoticz https://www.domoticz.com/ (you will still need to use the Xiaomi app to enable developer mode at the beginnning)
Or you can write your own software, using the API.
Please do, I would love to see your VBA code :)
So what lumen would be good for a bedroom from these mob?
At 600, it is more than bright enough for my rooms and lounge. If you need a brighter light, I would go for LIFX https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/lifx
Let me just say that 600 lumens is BRIGHT enough to light up your living room/bedroom/kitchen, you can dim these through the app like LIFX bulbs. I have a couple of LIFX bulbs around the house, sure it's 800 lumens, but when dimmed it can blend in to suit your needs. At 8 watts, these consume 1W less than Philips WeMo bulbs which is a plus. However, if you spend $4 extra you might as well go to Bunnings and buy a WeMo bulb for $19. WeMo bulbs need a hub to connect them but you can buy the starter pack which includes 2 bulbs and a hub for $69. Just gives you that extra peace of mind for warranty etc, although Zapals has a 30-day return policy, you'll still most likely have to pay for return postage. Personally, I don't trust MI with bulbs but their other products are fairly good quality. If you're on a budget and new to home automation/IOT then go for these, otherwise save your hard earned and invest in WeMo or Philips Hue. Also, OP I think you should remove that L plate because this is a great first post.
Cheers for the useful info.
You're welcome! I forgot to add, these aren't compatible with Amazon Echo but with a bit of tweaking you can set it up. Video tutorial here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=23DHbgFc89g
Very good advice there. Although not needing a hub, and the price per light is a big plus for me.
Don't know about the L Plate, thought that went on automatically for a first post!
Cheers buddy!! Sorry, that was just a little pun because first posts aren't usually this detailed :P
I tent to aim for 800 - 900 in our place. Some smaller rooms perhaps I'll go lower.
In simplest terms you can refer to recommended minimum residential lighting levels, measured in Lux (=Lumens/m²), this calculator can do some basic math for you:
http://www.houseplanshelper.com/lighting-calculation.html
Bathing yourself and loved ones in radiation for 2 minutes from the enormous fusion reactor outside will give everyone more than a lifetime of WiFi radiation.
It's genuinely impossible to be harmed by the radiation from WiFi technology.
I'm guessing you don't have a TV in your house? Or a radio? Or a microwave? Or a phone?
How do you manage to protect yourself and your loved ones from the harmful radiation created by the Big Bang that permeates throughout the entire universe?
I'm guessing you don't have a TV in your house? Or a radio? Or a microwave? Or a phone?
ignore the link, respond with personal questions, remain ignorant.
ignore the link
"School Wi-Fi bans not supported by scientific evidence"
http://www.mcf.amta.org.au/newsletters/Mobile.InSite.Februar…
If you're really that concerned about radiation then maybe you should just wear a tin foil hat 24-7 😂
Thanks for the link - always good for a laugh.
Some of the cherry picked "scientific evidence" I read, collated by so called volunteer 'concerned parents', is dubious.
There are simple correlational studies where increases in certain illnesses happened around same time as increased use of wireless devices. What more proof do we need - its all mobile phones fault, now extended to the fault of wifi. Of course the plethora of other changes that occurred at the same time were conveniently ignored.
Others studies note in very broad terms that EMR can affect organisms - wow. Some studies date back so far - in those days, radio transmitters put out enormous EMR compared to today's radio transmitters, and WiFi is way down the scale from that. I've stood inside a short wave transmitter building - fluro tubes would glow without wires and microwave ovens were supposedly developed after observing the heating effect of the EMR. So yes, EMR can can affect organisms.
For a true believer in the evils of all radio waves - it all adds up as proof… and cheepwun calls us non-believers ignorant! Must have written the comment on a steam powered computer, to avoid the dreaded EMR.
Downloaded the design for a handy tin foil hat. But I think I‘ll just lock myself away in a Faraday Cage & never come out.
@cheepwun:
I've laughed enough.
You have presented a conspiracy theory based on a misunderstanding of the literature. I think you should take your own advice & read up on the field rather than criticise others as ignorant & "mouthing off". Insulting others' considered opinions will never win support for your pet cause.
@jv:
hilarious.
Do you know who the MCF is?
The Mobile Carriers Forum (MCF) is an industry group representing the three mobile phone carriers deploying networks in Australia.
Couldn't have picked a more biased source than that. Congrats.
An industry body that has most to gain from articles like that.
I still remember my first mobile phone with long-winded warnings in the manual about the possible dangers relalating to radio frequencies.
PS. The CSIRO also profits from wi-fi patents.
@cheepwun:
What is it about Sundays that brings out the crazy pet causes on OzBargain?
Another fundamentalist who says theirs is the only 1 true way to view their topic of choice. Attacking all other views as based on ignorance, bias or vested interests - hence proving their view is right & unable to be challenged.
The 'concerned parents' group in the link insists long-term exposure has been proven to be harmless. Until then they want WiFi out of schools. Only wired connections should be used.
Almost nothing in life is harmless. Drink too much water or food & you could die, books can injure through papercuts or falling on you, cars kill thousands a year, so do planes and other forms of transport & don't even think about crossing a road on foot! And how many have been injured by tripping over wired connections??
So stop doing anything that can harm you in any way😯
What is it about Sundays that brings out the crazy pet causes on OzBargain?
As opposed to the ignorant, who come out every day…
Insulting others' considered opinions will never win support for your pet cause.
I could say the same for just about everyone that responded. I am not looking to win support for my 'pet cause' as you put it. Far from it.
PS. you labelled it a conspiracy theory. Maybe you want to talk to some microwave experts.
@jv:
Maybe some of us already have…
Oh yes? Name names and tell me who pays them. With classic articles like the previous one you linked to…with industry-body bias coming out of its pores, I'm not holding my breath.
@jv:
I don't need to, I know them…
Oh how convenient for you.
I'm sure their independence is without question & there isn't the slightest hint of bias, either from their employer or their sponsors. In the meantime, there are scientists worldwide who have expressed more than just idle concerns about the long-term effects of what the industry is bombarding us with.
Oh how convenient for you.
It's not a matter of convenience, It's a matter of fact.
I'm sure their independence is without question & there isn't the slightest hint of bias
You can't be sure as you don't know them and haven't met them, they don't live in Australia.
Your assumptions just prove your bias…
@jv:
It's not a matter of convenience, It's a matter of fact.
Which happens to be very convenient for you. You don't have to list your 'facts' or name sources but you CAN say you have spoken to 'experts' in order to add weight to your argument.
Convenient.
Which happens to be very convenient for you.
Not really, I mostly get to speak to them on the phone these days… We catch up every other year or so…
@jv:
Not really, I mostly get to speak to them on the phone these days… We catch up every other year or so…
Fascinating. Woman's Day should hire you for a column.
I hope it's a wired phone.
Woman's Day should hire you for a column.
His paper was in an IEEE Journal earlier in the year. Doubt the Woman's Day reporter would understand the topic.
Bathing yourself and loved ones in stupidity 24/7:
madness.
I agree, controlling light bulbs with wi-fi is dumb. Like swatting a fly with a mobile phone 24/7.
Bathing in stupidity indeed.
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!?!?!!????!!!
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!?!?!!????!!!
Indeed. Won't someone think of them? They are more prone to the effects of wi-fi and mobile phone tech. Mothers with their smartphones on wifi near new-born babies. Absolute madness.
More laughs😯
Won’t somebody please think of the children??!?!… The oft-repeated cry of a hysterical Helen Lovejoy (The Simpsons)… As a satirical phrase meant to lampoon certain groups’ tendency to offer irrelevant, but essentially inarguable moral positioning
Thanks cheepwun, you really don't seem to understand much. You confuse the lampooning (in a cartoon) of a type of thinking you are promoting, with valid support for your cause. Sounds much like the misuse of scientific literature you linked to to support your cause. But you attack others as ignorant! Keep it coming.
Fundamentslist beliefs like this can be so entertaining, unless you are suckered into believing in it.
The objective of the group you have promoted is to stop the installation of WiFi near children, based on some unintended use of valid research (beyond the scope of the original papers) or pretty dodgy findings of other (political) groups.
The insistence is that unless WiFi can be proven now to be totally harmless in the long term, it must not be used. Very little in life is totally harmless.
Many things in everyday use cause injury, illness, etc. Every day we take calculated risks in our & our children's lives - including taking them to school by any means of transport - even walking.
We wouldn't get out of bed if we worried about all the already proven harmful activities that were awaiting us, and children, every day. And staying in bed can also be harmful in the long term😯
Oh boy, classic case of conditional bias I reckon.
Have you ever opened a link on Google that didn't confirm what you believed in?
There has been so much research into this because of people complaining with no knowledge whatsoever of how radio frequency works.
Spoiler, but it has no ill affects on humans, or animals for that matter. The only conclusive evidence is that it heats tissue. That's it. This also goes for mobile phones, radio, tv, or anything that uses radio frequencies. That's why the FCC controls what the safe human exposure levels are, and enforces them. That's also why Public Health England (known as Health Protection Agency at the time) released this report that found "there is no convincing evidence that RF field exposure below guideline levels causes health effects in adults or children"
Want the evidence? Take a look at the many papers on the exact topic:
* Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: A Systematic Review of Provocation Studies
* Radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure and non-specific symptoms of ill health: A systematic review
* Prenatal Exposure to Non-ionizing Radiation
* Base Stations and Wireless Networks: Radiofrequency (RF) Exposures and Health Consequences
Man, that was literally 5 mins of searching, open your mind a little
There has been so much research into this because of people complaining with no knowledge whatsoever of how radio frequency works.
Spoiler, but it has no ill affects on humans, or animals for that matter. The only conclusive evidence is that it heats tissue.
Laughable. Keep talking.
Laughable. Keep talking.
Umm… Can't you click?
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: A Systematic Review of Provocation Studies
"The objectives of this study were to assess whether people who report hypersensitivity to weak electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are better at detecting EMF under blind or double-blind conditions than nonhypersensitive individuals, and to test whether they respond to the presence of EMF with increased symptom reporting."
"The symptoms described by “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” sufferers can be severe and are sometimes disabling. However, it has proved difficult to show under blind conditions that exposure to EMF can trigger these symptoms. This suggests that “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” is unrelated to the presence of EMF"
(Peer Reviewed Study)
Radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure and non-specific symptoms of ill health: A systematic review
Prenatal Exposure to Non-ionizing Radiation
Base Stations and Wireless Networks: Radiofrequency (RF) Exposures and Health Consequences
Think I've just been trolled :/
Anyway to make there function with amazon echo?
Hello again buddy :-)
You might've missed my comment above, bit of tweaking can get it to work with the Echo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=23DHbgFc89g
What's the cheapest wifi lights that work with Apple HomeKit?
You can get them all to work with HomeKit by using a bridge https://www.google.com.au/amp/fastchicken.co.nz/2016/01/11/h…
Yesterday I could not get to paypal at all. Any one having same issues?
Also they clear a trolley every hour for some reason.
E27 only kills this for me. Yes I know you can get a cheap adaptor, but the the lamp+adaptor ends up too long for most fittings.
I want to buy one but the thought of it acting up paranormal activity style is enough to scare me, yes I am a wimp
Should put in the title that these are white light only, not RGB :-)