Or go full high-tech and install lights with adjustable color temperature.

I may be ahead of the curve a bit. Adjustable colour temp didn't seem enough. My whole apartment has RGB bulbs since about 5-6 years ago. I just couldn't go back to on/off one shade lights ugh.

Also I rock a 300w LED panel to get a bit more brightness in my winter days, but that's not RGB though.

We have a "sunshine" script in Home Assistant that sets all bulbs to daylight and 100%. Great for livening up overcast days.

I'm like this, home office, kitchen, bathroom etc is daylight like 5k, only the bedroom and a corner lamp in the couch room are 3k.

This. My wife loves warm light, but I dislike it. I find my visual acuity better under daylight lights, and find myself cursing if I'm trying to work on something (screws in kids toys or whatever)

Personally I just go for warm white for places which should be cozy and cold white for places with a more utilitarian use.

Cold white LED light bulbs are actually more efficient, so I'll even get more light out of the same power lamp making it easier to see what I'm doing (which is what you generally need lights for in an utilitarian use location).

Dear god no, you never want mixed light, it's like walking into an alien space ship or from the Arctic to the Sahara desert just by going to a different room.

Wyze light bulbs for the win. I can pick 255 colors.

I installed Wiz, they can do RGB, but the real trick is to program double tap.

click on, warm white 70%

click on, off, on Daylight 100%

Bonus: Home assistant, throw a rave

R G B R B R G B G.....

the only smart house thing I envy is temperature adjustable lights automaticly adjusting the temperature according to the time of day

some thing like that could bring the best of both worlds easily, I find higher temperatures more pleasing at day but like you they are too harsh for me at night

2700K is the closest to firelight. I refuse to abandon thousands of years of archetypal affection for cheap LED false suns.

Short take: you don't have to clean as hard for company.

They remind me of the old style fluorescent circle lights from the 50s, where they were almost green.

More than even color temperature I'm shocked at the number of people who illuminate their rooms with four clear-glass bulbs in the ceiling fan, so bright you can't even look at them from the sidewalk. Have these people never heard of a lamp? You can practically see the shadows of dust motes in the air against the sterile white walls.

Just heard about a phenomenon where people paint their houses white right before selling them (I assume apartments too) and then the new people won't paint on fairly new paint so they end up keeping the bland colors.

Some people probably depend on their lightbulbs to make the walls look yellow instead of white, I can see those cases comparing the light to a hospital.

I personally like cooler lighting, but there's too much color around to feel like a hospital in my case.

You don't even need to script it. Just use the Adaptive Lighting custom integration. You can sync your light color temperature with the sun, or customize it any way you like.

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Ooo what an amazing idea!

They also make bulbs that automatically change as you dim them since a smart bulb may not be practical or even possible everywhere.

I use red bulb (or just leds now) unironically, I can see good enough to walk at night and they don't fucking hurt my eyes like dumbass white bulbs. Seriously how do people use those white bulbs? Just going to a hospital is painful.

This is why I don’t use them.

The paint in my living room looks diarrhea brown and corpse gray under warm light. It’s purple and blue, and there are a lot of windows so I can’t plan for warm light as a default like I can in bedrooms. Daylight bulbs keep the color what it should be.

There's practically no chance this knowledge will ever benefit me, but I'm happy to learn something new regardless. Thanks for sharing!

It seemed odd the lower frequency diodes would be less efficient so I did a quick bit of reading and it seems like red light is efficient, but red and blue light aren't as effectively picked up by the human eye as green and because each light has a different operating voltage there are some consequences.

From what I read the things that makes white lights more effiecient is they only use blue diodes which probably means less circuitry is needed to operate than two sets of alternating diodes and there's less difficulties going from higher frequency (aka higher energy) to low via filters. Hence efficient green light, blue light and red light at a single voltage.

plus a phosphorus layer on top that smooths those two perfect lightwave color peaks in the wavelength domain into a broader light spectrum

The phosphor absorbs some of the blue and downconverts it to green and red. Some of the blue is let through for us to see. The mixture of R, G and B looks like white to us (but not necessarily to other animals with different cones in their eyes).

2 kinds of light emiting diode (LED) junctions inside - red and blue

I've never seen a red LED die inside a white LED. I've only ever seen blue dies on their own.

Technically UV-pumped white LEDs exist, but they're rare and I've never seen one. They're less efficient and require a third phosphor (to make the blue).

You can remove the yellowish looking phosphors on the LED with a small pick to reveal the blue die underneath. Fun fact: some high-power "red" LEDs are actually blue leds + phosphors, not that it's a particularly good choice but it's a thing: https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/018_led_cob_cutting/

Happy cake day!

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Overhead lighting makes it so much worse.

High CRI is what you want. This is the number corresponding with ability see colors accurately.

This was one of the things that got me into Home Assistant. All the bulbs in my house can be controlled and having them transition automatically between daylight white and cozy warm light is kinda magical even after several years.

Most people I know who do care.

Change all of the bulbs when they move in. Throw the old bulbs in a box.

Put the old bulbs back when you move out.

Use the new bulbs at the next apartment.

Some of them also have smart bulbs and those are way too expensive to give away.

I definitely have four different temperatures in my tiny studio. I imagine that would set a sort of person on edge.

I don't go out of my way to replace light bulbs with all these smartbulbs that have day/night cycles.

That being said, if they go out, I normally pick a smartbulb because the price difference isn't that much for all it offers in return.

I've been working remotely from 3 to 10 PM and the gradual change in color temperature both from the smartbulb and my screen really helps me take it easy as my shift is ending.

Take them up on their offer of lumen output and show off one of these bad boys.

Could you find adjustable LED bulbs? Those are honestly the best of both worlds. Daylight is great for things like cleaning, but I much prefer warm light for general living.

Daylight spectrum is skewed by time of day from blue shifted to red shifted.

This is the kind of constructive, rational and informed opinion that flies in the very face of the concept of internet forums and everything for which they stand. If you won't rabidly advocate for an extreme position on an insignificant issue with an irrationally vitriolic diatribe, what are you even doing here? This is Lemmy Shitpost. Please observe the appropriate decorum, and comment accordingly. So fuck you and the ISP you rode in on. You can have my daylight bulbs when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.

But you do.

You just choose every minute of every day instead of each time when you run out to Home Depot so you can finish whatever you were doing.

I use them (5000k+) where I want my cornea pierced by the 460nm spike

Preach

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