Not as good an idea for say the bedroom where you might want to leave the lights off as you enter to prevent waking up the baby or spouse.
Lights that come on when you enter room.
It s just right for utility rooms basements closets garages and similar rooms.
The philips hue motion sensor turns on your hue smart lights when it detects motion in the room.
The one shown at left senses movement in a 900 square foot area.
If you re sick of having to find and fumble with the light switch every time you enter a dark room you can use smartthings to automate that process and have the lights turn on automatically when you enter.
How to set up the smartthings home monitoring kit.
Arduinonaut on may 27th 2015 at 11 00 am said.
Enlarge image apple s home app can trigger light as you come and go and it comes with a couple of nice extra features.
Lights that come on as soon as you enter the geofenced area around your home.
With a manual on switch you turn on the lights when entering a room and then when you leave the area the switch shuts off the lights after a preset period.
In our basement laundry room i replaced the light with a motion sensor fixture like you see on garages or houses.
It was great and cheap less than 15 and was better than the single bulb pull chain fixture we had it came on automaticly turned off automaticly and had 2 sockets that i could twist to dorect the light anywhere in the room.
By mike prospero 07 january 2015 motion and light sensors embedded in the stack alba will automatically turn on this smart led bulb when you enter the room.