I already have a wind down dimming schedule on my entire home. It changes brightness and color temperature gradually over 2 hours. How do these bulbs compare with philips hue?
Atmos ranges from 1800K to 5700K
Maybe not the most obvious, but for both products, it’s in the tech specs under Quality of Light. We try to be very detailed with what we publish there. Thanks!
It’s not obvious because I didn’t get there - I expected it to be one of the expanding sections with “Product Details” and so on. (I.e. when you have expanding sections to start with, it’s standard that all the information is the sections, and users are trained not to scroll down).
That’s why our products focus on both intensity and color change (but we lead with blue light reduction since it’s easier to grasp).
Also, if you look at our specs, you’ll see that we don’t use pure amber or red light; we use very low-blue white light with high color rendering. We have yet to do the study on this, but you can read surprisingly well with our lighting at a very low intensity (enough to make your mom angry that you are hurting your eyes), whereas with lower CRI sources, you would have to make them brighter to achieve the same visual acuity.
There is some emerging research that IR may play a role in melatonin production locally in cells, which is why we added it to the bulb. Early days for this scientifically, but Scott Zimmerman and associated researchers suggest wideband IR may be effective, even if it’s only 20-30% of the visible intensity.
We're working on a Nest-style ML feature for the Atmos lamp that learns your intensity preferences and automatically applies them. And we have a whole bunch smart circadian products we're working on—something for the desk and workspace next.
For Bedtime Bulb v2, not out-of-the-box because it's all analog electronics, but we REALLY want people to dim it gradually throughout the evening. If you want to automate dimming, the Leviton Smart Dimmer we offer on the site will allow you to control it with any of the popular smart home platforms.
Why isn't Bedtime Bulb smart? Bedtime Bulb v1 was our MVP, and we focused on getting the quality of light right over adding any smart features. It turns out, many of our customers have told us they don't want anything smart. So when we made v2, we focused on doubling down on quality of light features: infrared, warm dimming, "Perfect Dimming" (smooth dimming with any TRIAC or ELV dimmer), really high CRI/R9/TM-30, etc.
Smart bulbs are definitely a future possibility, but right now, we have the analog line (Bedtime Bulb v2) and smart line of fully-integrated lamps (Atmos).
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