Haven't bought a Phillips hue yet, but planning on changing my whole lighting system with Phillips hue. Now I own a Google Home mini, and a Lenovo Smart Display with Google Assistant. Both are connected, but will I be able to turn on the lights with both assistant? I use the Lenovo Smart Display as like a main console in my living room, because the screen just gives so much more features than the home I have. The camera shutter feature is also life-changing. Makes me feel more safe and less paranoid lol. Both are connected, I was wondering if it can connect with both assistant? Has anyone tried?
both are using google assistant which is mainly web based so both should work with your hue lights once they have been paired i have hue with my google home mini and they work like a charm
I'd actually recommend against doing whole house with Hue bulbs. I have them, and after doing a whole house conversion I think that getting smart switches is a much better way to go.
edembowski said:
I'd actually recommend against doing whole house with Hue bulbs. I have them, and after doing a whole house conversion I think that getting smart switches is a much better way to go.
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I see applications for both and I do have both. I splurged on a Leviton Z-wave dimmer switch for a couple of lights cause the Hue bulb price for that type of light was a little too rich for my blood. However, the individual bulbs do give me more granular control. For instance, I got a Hue motion sensor and hooked it up to two different lights in two different rooms so they act as night lights. There are uses for both, think it just depends on what you want and where the lights are imo.
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Anyone else having issues with the sensors and the moto display? I tend to see it turn on constantly especially in my car, not sure if the street lights are triggering it or that its motion sensitive. Is it supposed to be motion sensitive? I've realized just pushing the phone or shaking what its sitting on turns it on.
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Anyone else having issues with the sensors and the moto display? I tend to see it turn on constantly especially in my car, not sure if the street lights are triggering it or that its motion sensitive. Is it supposed to be motion sensitive? I've realized just pushing the phone or shaking what its sitting on turns it on.
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That's the point. Any time you move it or act like you may be trying to turn it on it shows moto display. Old X did this too. You do realize it uses like, no battery to show this, and this is the entire point of active display?
The notifications "breathe", too, they turn on and off regularly by themselves.
Gotcha, didn't realize it was sensitive to all motion, just thought the wave over it, the twist to turn on the camera, and just for notifications.
It is a bit disconcerting at first. I have to fight my instinct to worry about the battery and keep very still around the phone to avoid waking it up.
But I guess if it really does consume very little power I should learn not to worry about it.
hi, so i noticed its has TWO leds that shine up but its not pure white light, its like an amber color. imo its not bright enough...is there a mod or hack to brighten it up? thx
u know how philips light bulbs have soft white and daylight cool white...i want that daylight white look! thnx
cobyman7035 said:
hi, so i noticed its has TWO leds that shine up but its not pure white light, its like an amber color. imo its not bright enough...is there a mod or hack to brighten it up? thx
u know how philips light bulbs have soft white and daylight cool white...i want that daylight white look! thnx
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I can't even look at mine they are so bright. In fact I just looked at them for less than a second and now I see spots as I'm typing this. There might be something wrong with your unit.
Mine aren't bright either. I compared to my N4 and the N4 is clearly brighter, despite having 1 led vs 2. I don't mind the amber tint. It helps take better photos because the color temperature more closely matches the indoor lighting conditions where you're likely to use the flash.
I also feel that the Nexus flashlight isn't as bright as it could be. However, the light on my last phone was similar, and I installed an app that increased the brightness for it. It worked great, but the LED ran much hotter after that.
I suspect that the reasoning for the dimmer flashlight is to not prematurely wear out the LEDs, or degrade their performance when they're needed for camera flash.
When taking photos, the flash output is quite surprising. I don't think it's a hardware issue, rather intentional software programming that runs the flashlight at a dimmer output. As a quick flashlight, I find the N6's lights adequate.
Hello,
I'm new to Huawei and one thing I noticed about my P10 is the very faint notification light. From a little distance it is very hard to notice.
I've tried installing Lights Manager, but changing the brightness there doesn't seem to do anything.
Does anyone have a way of increasing the brightness of the notification light on the P10?
Thx
I just got the phone and Yes my notification LED is SO DIM AND USELESS. I tried to use light manager and seems like the brightness is already the highest. Will pop by the shop in the weekend to see if it's my set problem or all sets are like that.
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Mine is faint too. Or at least I find it that way coming from Sony Xperia phones where the notification LED was very bright and you can see it even on sunlight... Sony also used different colors for different notifications - here is green only unfortunately... Hope Huawei fix this in some future updates....
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Hi all,
actually it has colors too. On Whatsapp, if you choose white or blue the notification light will change to that color. Problem is that there is no way to configure light colors for the rest of notifications, unless you install some notification light management app which I had once in a previous phone.
About the intensity, yes, it's a bit faint. But, personally I prefer it against Samsungs that I owned previously in which notification lights were so bright that at nights it illuminated my room when sleeping (and if it blinked, even worse!).
Leandro
useless tiny notification on LED. This is factory dumb design.
I actually like the brightness. Coming from a N5 where the LED was brightening up the whole room when someone sent you a message at night, the p10s subtle notification is much better.
Alright boys and girls
An idea.
We know that there is no Infra-red output on the Note 8, (unlike S6, s7 etc) rendering remote control apps useless.
However, there is an infra-red diode on the front of the note 8 for the iris scanner.
In our house we have infra-red controlled dimmer switches for our lights. Upon messing around having far too much time on my hands, I have managed to get our dimmer switches to respond to the Note 8`s iris scanner LED. Meaning when I have my case open, the lights dim and go up again.
What are the chances of being able to manipulate this LED for a remote app. It seems pretty powerful, dimming our lights from across the room. Can make a vid if anyone wants to see - pretty basic stuff.
Could the LED on the front of the Note 8 be switched (pulsed) fast enough do you think? ie 34khz / 38 khz to enable use as as an IR remote control?
There is obviously an API for accessing the IR diode.
Any thoughts?
Pretty sure it's locked up for security reason.
Samsung obviously say it isnt posible:
http://www.samsung.com/ph/support/skp/faq/1126303
Pd:I also miss the ir emitter from my note 4. It was very usefull for my arduino control proyects
Yes I have seen that. I think Samsung are assuming that it isnt possible as they only provide the API for off and on maybe?
It would involve manipulating the LED at a high rate
After all, all a remote control is, is the light turned on and off really fast (ie 34000 per second / 34 khz) in a set pattern to align with the requirements of the receiver / tuner.
Would need to be rooted obviously with kernel level access.
I may investigate further. Samsung say it isnt possible. That means it must be!
Just read in another post that this isnt possible because the hardware. Ir control remote leds wavelength is tipically 940-950 nm, and IR led for iris scanner is emitting in 810nm. That is why we can see clearly a red dot in the led, I didnt see anything in my note 4 with my eyes (only seen it throught any IR sensible camera). Anyway I will build a simple ir reciver with a PIC when I finish my finals next month in order to check if a IR reciver can get some information with the IR emitter. Hope is the last that we lose hehe
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Just read in another post that this isnt possible because the hardware. Ir control remote leds wavelength is tipically 940-950 nm, and IR led for iris scanner is emitting in 810nm. That is why we can see clearly a red dot in the led, I didnt see anything in my note 4 with my eyes (only seen it throught any IR sensible camera). Anyway I will build a simple ir reciver with a PIC when I finish my finals next month in order to check if a IR reciver can get some information with the IR emitter. Hope is the last that we lose hehe
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Forget the red dot.
There is actual IR that is completely invisible. Take a photo of your Note 8 from another handset. There is clearly IR in the 900nM range. Use another phone camera, it transverts the IR into visible light.
I do not mean the visible red light you can see when using iris unlock. I do not even have iris unlock / face unlock enabled and it is there.
IR blaster - dimmer switch
N10AP said:
Alright boys and girls
An idea.
We know that there is no Infra-red output on the Note 8, (unlike S6, s7 etc) rendering remote control apps useless.
However, there is an infra-red diode on the front of the note 8 for the iris scanner.
In our house we have infra-red controlled dimmer switches for our lights. Upon messing around having far too much time on my hands, I have managed to get our dimmer switches to respond to the Note 8`s iris scanner LED. Meaning when I have my case open, the lights dim and go up again.
What are the chances of being able to manipulate this LED for a remote app. It seems pretty powerful, dimming our lights from across the room. Can make a vid if anyone wants to see - pretty basic stuff.
Could the LED on the front of the Note 8 be switched (pulsed) fast enough do you think? ie 34khz / 38 khz to enable use as as an IR remote control?
There is obviously an API for accessing the IR diode.
Any thoughts?
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Hi,
I would like to ask if it has managed to solve somehow. ?
I'm currently tackling the same problem.
Note 8 turns off the remote control of the lights without wanting.
It can not turn off
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Forget the red dot.
There is actual IR that is completely invisible. Take a photo of your Note 8 from another handset. There is clearly IR in the 900nM range. Use another phone camera, it transverts the IR into visible light.
I do not mean the visible red light you can see when using iris unlock. I do not even have iris unlock / face unlock enabled and it is there.
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That invisible ir you are speaking of is part of the proximity sensor.
Just throwing a suggestion, the heartbeat sensor also uses infra red, so we might be able to use that too
This looks really promissing, we have iris LED and heartrate sensor LED, both infrared, this is xda FFS we can do it!
well guys, proximity sensor has an IR LED as well, and almost every phone has a proximity sensor. but still, there's no way to turn all of them into IR remotes till now...
Hi
I bought a new p20 pro recently and noticed that, when I record footage, the picture goes dim and dark when i pan or move the scene (even slightly) and the bright, and then dark again. That means that when I play back the footage, the brightness level constantly shifts and changes, making it highly annoying and at times the picture is dim enough that its a struggle to see anything (yes even in broad daylight).
Is there a way to turn this dynamic brightness shifting off or is this a faulty phone?
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Hi
I bought a new p20 pro recently and noticed that, when I record footage, the picture goes dim and dark when i pan or move the scene (even slightly) and the bright, and then dark again. That means that when I play back the footage, the brightness level constantly shifts and changes, making it highly annoying and at times the picture is dim enough that its a struggle to see anything (yes even in broad daylight).
Is there a way to turn this dynamic brightness shifting off or is this a faulty phone?
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Hi, did you ever get a reply elsewhere or found the solution somewhere?
My wife's P20 Pro has the same issue. We always accepted the way it is, but only know i thought of finding a solution to it...
Hence curious if you managed to fix it?