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Speaking of LED lighting, I've been meaning to upgrade my living space lighting. The one killer feature I'm looking for is color temperature control: I want to be able to adjust between "soft white" (2700K whitepoint) and "daylight" (5000K) whitepoint.

Basically, what Philips Hue "White Ambiance" [1] bulbs offer. Are there any alternatives?

[1] http://www2.meethue.com/en-us/productdetail/philips-hue-whit...

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Any reason you don't want hue? I use LiFX Color bulbs (more pricey but I got a great price) and they have been one of those "I don't NEED this but really fun and wonderful" additions to my life.

I am currently using Osram Lightify bulbs with my SmartThings hub (no separate Osram hub required unless you want to update the firmware), and I have both tunable white and tunable white+rgb bulbs that work great.

Santa can I please have a separate HN for those who buy lightbulbs with firmware to post to?

Jesus.

LIFX makes white-only bulbs with color temp control for reasonable prices: http://www.lifx.com/products/white-800?variant=933783339

You just missed their Black Friday sale too :(

I have a few and they work well with my other home automation stuff (broadlink IR+RF remote + Aukey RF outlets + Moteino system).

How are you managing the Broadlink kit? They're one of the only things that can control my aircon, but the Android app is pretty bad.

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