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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Hue Lights Power Consumption (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by basicallycarrie@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Hey everybody,

I'm renting in an old european apartment, with electricity prices going up in the past months, I've been trying to update appliances here and there to be more power efficient. The easiest upgrade, light bulbs, I kept pushing off because my landlord was thinking about doing a renovation that he ultimately didn't go through with.

I was gifted a set of Philips Hue light bulbs and a bridge. I procedeed to install them, but now I'm wondering: I know for a fact, being LEDs make them way more efficient than my old ones, however, the light switch must always be on. Will this set-up end in me paying more in electricity than my old ones?

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[–] MainRemote@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

According to this https://www.philips-hue.com/en-us/energyconsumption, the bulbs use 0.5W at 0% brightness. If you pay $0.11 USD per kWh, that would cost $0.66 USD. That is like 1/5 of the cost of a Big Mac.

On, the bulbs use 1/6th of the energy of an incandescent bulb. You should break even (in energy cost only) very quickly.

[–] PoundKitchen@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Or zero watts switched off.

For 0.5Watt times number of bulbs used saved by switching off instead of Hue dimming to 0%.