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A great way of making your smart lights feel useful is to set up a few different lighting “modes”. We’ve found in our house that there are some standard times when we want to change bunch of lights at the same time. Our lights in the living area are set to come on automatically around sunset. But having all the lights on doesn’t really fit with other settings. We’ve set up a “Dinner mode”, which is more pleasant for dining, and a “Movie mode”, for when we’re relaxing on the couch in the evening.  There are a few ways to...

Another great thing we've found to do with Smart lightbulbs is to have them come on automatically, just at the time it's dark enough to need them. The exact time of sunset changes each day, but both Alexa and the Smart Life app are able to create routines that start based on the sunrise or sunset time at your exact location. A good way of working out when to set the time is to notice when you start thinking about turning the lights on, and ask your voice assistant "What time is sunset today?". Then you can work out how...