I hate using The Big Light™, but I can’t always have my room dark. My led strip that is up in the corner of the ceiling just died, so I’m looking for replacements. I’m not opposed to another one, I’m just curious what all else there is. thanks
edit: I might actually just replace my big light bulbs with hue bulbs or something (though those are mad expensive)
I learned about torchiere style lamps a few years ago and I really like them. You’ve seen them before. They’re usually floor lamps and they point upwards to bounce the light off the ceiling. Unless you have a dark ceiling, they do a great job of spreading the light around the room without being too bright.
Smart bulbs are, of course, more customizable, but recently I’ve gone back to analog lights I can just turn on and off.
Thrift stores almost always have desk or standing lamps. Combined with cheap, warm colored low wattage LED bulbs (25w equivalent or lower), they add wonderful ambiance without breaking the bank.
I went this route, and I can concur it makes great lighting in my office.
These too.
Bingo! Came here to say thrift store lamps as well.
Here’s one I got for $4 and restored one evening last week.
Yo OP! Took this just for you because I LOVE warm, ambient light. The Tiffany lamps are thrift stores finds, I think $10 and $15? Lamp on the left is also from a thrift. The alien egg I bought off a guy on /r/LV426. Handmade, $150 I think. It’s about my only original art I didn’t create myself. (Made the stand out of scraps though!)
Aquarium and monitors.
Lamps? Or am I missing something?
If you’re rich, you can buy those ikea fake windows that are actually lights. They aren’t made by ikea or sold by IKEA, and they’re hundreds of dollars each.
I am a sucker for indirect, coloured washes aiming at the ceiling
You didn’t specify a context, did you?
I mean, this is “ambient lighting” amrite?
lamps at the thrift store are 10 bucks max. and you can mix and match lampshades
Four lamps in different parts of the room, all with smart bulbs.
They’re tied together into a single dimmer/color/temp selector in HomeAssistant.
For ambiance, they’re usually running at like 35-40%.
Same here. I love the soft diffused shadows from multiple light sources and that they can be set low and yet the entire room is illuminated.
I got room for like one lamp on my nightstand at best. I’ll look into it though, I just have to make sure that whatever I get can be controlled from one Foss interface, no proprietary garbage
Good luck. I’ve had issues finding non-cloud smart bulbs/plugs. These came from Ali with Tasmota pre-installed. Haven’t looked for a couple of years, so hopefully the non-cloud options are easier to source these days.
I think Hue or ones that use Zigbee are viable. !homeassistant@lemmy.world may be able to offer some suggestions.
A lot of the Chinese smart bulbs can be controlled through Home Assistant. The ones that are almost universally unsupported are the Feit Electric brand.
Good to know. I just went with the Tasmota ones because I’m familiar with the firmware and can upgrade it independently from the manufacturer. Plus, it takes a month to get a shipment from Ali, so I didn’t want to play any guessing games; I knew Tasmota worked.
IKEA bulbs are cheap and work nice with my HA and ZigBee USB stick. Quality of light is good though obviously Hue is better for x4 the money.
what abiut controlling them from your phone? the price of hue kinda put me off lol
Home assistant has a mobile app that integrates with the (normally) Google home quick tile and lock screen shortcut, so it’s pretty much just like using Google home.
My partner uses about 10 lamps at any given time, and the room must be a black hole because I still can’t see shit
I mostly use custom built RGB lamps running WLED which are controlled by Home Assistant and the Adaptive Lighting integration which adjusts the brightness throughout the day based on the position of the sun. I do have a couple Govee lights that are controlled in the same manor as well.
Same here, but didn’t know about that integration, have home assistant rules controlling the lights based on sun status, bedtime for the kids and presence. Also a few lamps with hue bulbs. Expensive as hell, but offer the most stable zigbee network.
I find IKEA’s ZigBee bulbs to be rock solid as well and they’re significantly cheaper. And another +1 for Home Assistant with Adaptive Lighting here.
The problem I have with the Trådfri from IKEA is that they can’t do Cyan, it looks just white. I have 2 of them for places that I don’t use cyan.
Adaptive Lighting is pretty nice. You can set it to adjust the brightness and/or light temperature throughout the day and even setup a “nightlight” setting for overnight.
We use desk and reading lamps, most being 24w LED a few 12. We don’t use much ambient light… beside the sun, coming by the windows ;)
I like my lava lamp.
I like floor lamps. They can be pointed at the floor/ceiling for ambient light, or pointed at what you’re working on/reading. They don’t take up desk space, or fall over as easily.
Flashlight pointed at the ceiling, mostly. Which one varies, but lately it’s often ~2600K and very high CRI.
I bought two sets of Govee Glide wall lights for my Office and I can’t imagine how I would improve on them beyond just doing more to make them look ‘built in’. It’s a bit of a step up from an LED light strip.
