Hey, what’s the brightness levels of the color and white LEDs? One of the reasons I didn’t end up getting any HUEs was that the brightness of the bulb was only around the equivalent of 50 watts on incandescent. I didn’t want to pay a lot of bulbs that were going to be dimmer than what I was used too.
Limitless: Have you considered finding a US-based distributor? That could cut down the shipping costs considerably. As well as the two products will work together (hopefully), perhaps you could work out something with smartthings themselves.
I’ll be ordering a few either way, and if they work as well as I hope, I could see every light in my house being a limitlessLED.
Looking forward to this! I’m getting a bunch of friends at work together to put in an order. I’m also hoping that these bulbs will work with the Lumawake iPhone dock that I just purchased that will work with SmartThings.
@LimitlessLED Can you control individual light bulbs / groups of light bulbs e.g. Bedroom, Living etc.? Do you need a LimitlessLED WiFi Bridge for each group?
@CrashTest the app is already available, and we have a brand new better one that has been submitted to apple store, takes about a week. but this thread is not about the iphone app. this is about smartthings development. please log a support email for this. thanks
@Rocklobster, the shipping is still the same, one day you wouldn’t be so skeptical, I will make it my personal goal to make it so :) if you would like to un-skeptical yourself, search up limitlessled on youtube. cheers mate.
@CrashTest, yeah you can have hundreds and hundreds of bulbs on each group, max of 4 white groups and 1 color group per wifi bridge, and you can have multiple wifi bridges per iPhone app. they just all connect to your wifi router in your house, pretty simple really. and in post #684 my test setup is with 5 groups with 15 cool white/warm white SmartBulbs, 3 RGB SmartBulbs and 1 wifi receiver bridge. you can practically have unlimited lightbulbs as long as you stay within the max. number of groups.
@Joel, Correct, each wifi bridge does 4 white groups + 1 color group. I just use the color leds as more of a fun factor in my kids rooms, and rumpus room. I place the warm white/cool white ones in use in all my kitchen, hallway and living areas. And yes each color remote can only control just 1 Group of unlimited number of color LEDs, and you will notice that the white remotes can control up to 4 groups of unlimited numbers of white LEDs.
anyway, back on topic… where are all the other SmartThings developers?
has anyone started writing a SmartThings app to go in the smartThings app store?
thanks. the way I see smartthings working with LimitedlessLED is through scenes. (which smartthings are working on, and will be working with theubi - awesome)
bed time scene - could dim to a dark blue and then off.
relax scene - could change between light red and whatever color is relaxing.
@Chuckles, yes I will post it up on our website so that you can check it out. We have 3 apps already up on appstore, but just sent a new better version to appstore for approval, it takes just one week. So I prefer to post the new link up. I’ll let you know when its available.
I just had a thought after seeing Alex’s latest CES demo of the app on youtube today. How would the user select a color picker? so that they can action a color in their scene of the LimitlessLED lights?
I had a cool idea… when the Liquor cupboard opens and the sensors is activated, a lamp in the back of the liquor cupboard with the RGB smartbulb, could turn on and change to dark blue, and make all the vodka look cool and colourful. or turn to a red color if the cupboard is opened and the time is before midday
@Joel, Each Wifi Bridge Receiver controls 4 groups of coolwhite/warmwhite LEDs plus 1 group of RGB LEDs. Two wifi bridges are required if you would like 8 ww/cc groups and 2 rgb groups. You can use unlimited bridges on your LAN, each with a different IP address. You can use unlimited LimitlessLED bulbs per group. We wanted to add more rgb groups to each bridge receiver, but it was going to cost too much, so we are quite happy with it at the moment, and will look to extend it later.
Why is it the bridge is required? Why can’t the bulbs connect directly to the AP?
I was first drawn to LimitlessLED bulbs because at the price it seemed like a great way to go over light switches, and if the RGB ones could do bright white light as well…that may be the case.
I can see them being economical in areas where a switch only controls one bulb, as a switch is 30-40 dollars. But most my house each switch controls at least 5-10 bulbs, making the LED bulbs far more expensive that a switch.
Also, I am concerned these could end up being as frustrating as ceiling fans with a remote control. It seems like someone always turns the fan off via the switch making the controller worthless. The only thing I can think of would be to either A. put blank coves over the switches with Limitless bulbs or B. putting in z-wave switches in addition to the bulbs. Neither option is ideal as A. has the issue of removing a control option when an app isn’t practical, and B basically defeats the purpose of the LED bulbs.
There is also the concern of making the system overly complicated to maintain & program with wifi bridges everywhere.