Smart lighting for my office renovation

Smart lighting for my office renovation

As Griffin begins renovating his office / recording space, Nick shares his knowledge of smart lighting and home automation technology. Is it possible to install sufficient lighting for filmmaking, movie-watching, and every color temperature in between?

In Nick’s theater room, he uses LIFX Color 800-lumen smart bulbs and Lutron Caseta light switches. He also recommends the subreddit r/homeautomation.

I was considering these smart lighting products:

But Nick helped me understand that most (wired) smart switches aren’t intended for use with (wifi-connected) smart lights. Usually it’s one or the other. I did find one wired switch that works with smart lighting fixtures, but it suffers from a 2-second delay, which is disqualifying in my opinion.

After recording this episode, then researching many products—I’ve ultimately decided Philips Hue smart bulbs may be my best bet. They’re no brighter than regular household bulbs, so I’ve purchased several “dumb” 3-bulb lighting fixtures, which I plan to pack full of these full-RGB-color Hue bulbs. For smart control, I’ll replace my traditional wired light switches with these wireless kinetically-powered switches.

Nick started using photo-editing software Luminar AI, and he’s impressed.

Griffin met Adam Rahn in college, while producing student television. Now he’s a guest on Adam’s podcast, #Freelanswers.

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Griffin Hammond