Alexa Turn On Lights At Dusk

I have picked a couple of switches to turn on and under trigger i selected at sunset.

Alexa turn on lights at dusk.

Our outside lights come on at sunset or if it starts to rain and we have lights that come on whenever the backdoor is unlocked which happens about 30 seconds before we get to the door with august. Set up an automation in smart lighting to turn switch on dusk till dawn when motion starts and to turn off when motion stops with duration 1 minute. I use ifttt not to control alexa but to control the lights directly. I know with the wink hub i had to turn on location service on my phone then once it had my location i could turn it off.

And it can deter burglars because the lights indicate that someone is home awake and that there won t be any cover. Banord dusk to dawn light bulbs 3 pack 12w smart sensor lighting bulbs auto turn on off 2700k warm white outdoor led bulbs e26 base non dimmable 4 4 out of 5 stars 901 19 99 19. How does the smartthings hub know when dusk is. The dust to dawn led ring with warm white color light makes people feel relaxed to inscrease sleeping quality.

I forgot i also have alexa routine to turn off light after motion stops for duration 1 minute. Dusk to dawn security light without a switch can turn on off automatically. Here s a really simple video to show you how it s done a smartthings customer just wrote in to the blog to ask. Its under automation smartapps then smart lighting.

I connect ifttt to philips hue lifx and leviton to control various functions. Keep in mind that if you also want your lights to turn off automatically at a certain time you ll need to create a second routine only this time you ll choose for the lights to turn off when you go to select a scene. Banord dusk to dawn light bulbs 3 pack 12w smart sensor lighting bulbs auto turn on off 2700k warm white outdoor led bulbs e26 base non dimmable 4 4 out of 5 stars 846 16 99 16. Alexa routines allow you to create a customized command to make multiple things happen at once or you can schedule events to occur at specific times.

With smartthings you can set your bedroom lights to automatically turn on or brighten when you want to wake up and then dim or turn off when you want to go to bed.