Another newbie: ideas for home theater lighting?

[Jimxenus]

@Tbhi7793

I just got my smarthings hub and will be using it with harmony to control a home theater

Check out this post regarding my home theater setup. In there I talk about a couple of smart apps that can help you automate your whole setup. I use hue lights along with some rope lights to help set the mood. Hue lights are great, albeit expensive to have different scenes of color lighting.

Home Automation is almost like a Rube Goldberg machine…

When I got into SmartThings, one of the things that I wanted to do was to automate my media center. My system is not too overly complicated but here’s what needed to happen: Turn off and on certain lights Set a color scene to my hue bulbs Turn on the amplifier Turn on the TV Turn on the Mac Mini that I use to run Kodi (XBMC) Voice activate the ON/OFF sequence Integrate with Harmony Home Control remote Make sure that I have WAF First, I want to thank many developers and coders who came up with device types and smartapps to accomplish my goals. And of course this active community that helped in various ways along the way. The tough part was figuring out how to turn on the Mac Mini that has an electronic “ON” button that requires a physical press to make it work. I decided to go “old scho…