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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yes, but what happens when you have one room with multiple light fixtures, each with multiple bulbs, and you want to manage them separately? This is relevant to me because I have a very long attic loft bedroom. If my wife is in bed at one end of the room and I'm on the computer at the other end, I want the lights at dim at my end and off at hers.

There are workarounds involving "automations" or tricks with naming conventions but they're very tedious and spotty. The ability to group bulbs together (which Phillips Hue offers) would be much cleaner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Couldn't you just make them into two rooms in the app? One for each side?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

But then "turn on the lights" doesn't work. I've only got 1 speaker in the room. This would also fail if you had IoT lights in your nightstands and you wanted to control just the main (multi-light-fixture) light but not the nightstand lights, for example, which is specifically why I don't bother with IoT lights in nightstands and the like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The solution is to name every light in the multi light fixture with the same name. For example I have an arc lamp with 3 bulbs all named "arc lamp" saying "hey Google arc lamp on" turns all 3 on.

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