Coincidentally, about 30 seconds ago I got this weekly email from Amazon announcing a new Echo feature that will read you books from your Kindle library. It looks like it syncs your progress from a Kindle or the Kindle apps. Might be something your wife would find useful.
Oh, I just answered that here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/philips-hue-lightstrips-hue-extension.1951018/
Great news, I also heard that it's going to start supporting Nest thermostats so I'm looking forward to that, however I'm using an IFTTT recipe for now. I ended up finding one in my area on Saturday, even though it was a long drive. It's every bit as awesome as everyone says, I have all of my Wemo plugs and switches setup, with two more on the way.
right now hue is affordable. I finally replaced all my wink bulls as they were always loosing the connection and ended to be reset once in awhile one would come on in the middle of the night.
I don't know, their starter kit with just 3 bulbs for $199 has always seemed really steep for me. My main rooms, living, dining and kitchen each have 5 bulbs, it would be way too expensive. It's far more practical for me to use smart switches instead, I just won't get all those coolio colors.
My wife and I were discussing this last night, in particular because we just learned that WEMO doesn't support 3 way light switches (like stairs with one switch on the top and the other on the bottom) so we need to find a different solution for this. The most practical would be a bulb, so we may go this route but I still can't justify changing out 5 bulbs that are on one switch, so I'll need to work this out somehow.
This is exactly what I did. For this particular situation I am leveraging a WEMO motion controller that I've had for a couple of years but haven't been using. So I setup the WEMO light switch at the bottom of the stairs, patching the red wire in with one of the blacks and it works as it should. I Just left the switch at the top of the stairs alone and setup the motion controller to trigger the lights to come on, then I have a trigger to automatically shut them off after 5 minutes, regardless of how they were turned on. It's a workaround but so far it's working really well for us.
That does sound like a good idea. Maybe even up higher on top of the bar would work better? It really is not that big and looks pretty decent I think. People seem get a kick out of seeing ours out in the living room and playing around with it.
That does sound like a good idea. Maybe even up higher on top of the bar would work better? It really is not that big and looks pretty decent I think. People seem get a kick out of seeing ours out in the living room and playing around with it.
Hah! Glad you are enjoying it.
My wife stopped asking why after about a week lol, but like you mentioned, she does use it as well. Although there is a lot of tech fun to be had with this thing, we find ourselves using the shopping list feature daily.Hah! Glad you are enjoying it.
They just rolled out an update that allows Echo control of my Rachio wifi sprinkler timer, so that's my next task.
I have to admit though, my wife asked why I would want to control the sprinklers with the Echo and I did not have a good answer.