{"id":120133,"date":"2021-02-05T10:57:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=120133"},"modified":"2024-02-24T15:32:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:32:16","slug":"gauss-smart-light-review-very-convenient-and-very-addictive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/smart-home\/gauss-smart-light-review-very-convenient-and-very-addictive\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauss Smart Light : Very convenient and very addictive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smart home penetrates into our lives from everywhere.\u00a0Speakers, personal assistants – literally every manufacturer has tried himself in this area.\u00a0Let’s say you made up your mind.\u00a0Where to begin?\u00a0For example, from the light.\u00a0It’s simple, convenient and not expensive.<\/p>\n

Seemingly ordinary, but smart on the inside<\/h2>\n

Despite their functionality, such bulbs do not differ in appearance from ordinary lighting devices.\u00a0The same E14 or E27 base, the same device – the magic will begin later.\u00a0What made me happy was the weight of the bulbs.\u00a0Even the most advanced with RGBW color space coverage weighs no heavier than the classic options.\u00a0My previous smart light bulb could not boast of such a thing, which all the time led to the overweight of the lamp.\u00a0There is no such thing here.\u00a0In general, if you do not have the opportunity to adjust the light bulb, at first you can use it anyway, just screw it in and … voila.\u00a0There is light.<\/p>\n

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All the power in the app<\/h2>\n

The clear WiZ Connected app can be written as a separate plus for the Gauss bulbs.\u00a0Firstly, the setup is intuitive and quick – you create a room, turn on the light bulb, the smartphone looks for it for exactly a minute and connects.\u00a0Secondly, the program interface is simple and logical – your devices are displayed in the selected room, for each of which you can adjust the brightness and temperature of the light, activate a certain mode (“Party”, “New Year”, “Halloween”) or set a specific color, if the bulb allows it.\u00a0In the settings, you can change the name of the device and the speed of its switching on and off.\u00a0With the settings, as they say, “out of the box”, the light goes out slowly, taking about five seconds of your time.\u00a0I lowered this value to 0.25 seconds and enjoy life.<\/p>\n

In the WiZ Connected app, you can also activate Vacation Mode, which will turn on the lights in the room on a schedule every day to simulate your presence.\u00a0I’m not the only one who remembered Home Alone at this point?\u00a0The program also allows you to set up “Scenes” – a procedure that will be triggered by a voice command.\u00a0For example, saying \u201cSiri, turn on the first scene\u201d will light up the kitchen, and \u201cScene 2\u201d, in turn, will mean the hall.\u00a0Gauss bulbs support smart homes not only from Google and Amazon, but also from the more common Yandex.\u00a0This is useful for voice commands – you can, for example, say “Alice, turn on the light in the kitchen,” and it will light up there.\u00a0Synchronization with Apple devices is carried out through “Commands”, which, in general, is also quite convenient, given that<\/p>\n

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There are simple, complex and colored<\/h2>\n

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Gauss smart luminaires can now replace almost all lighting in the house, since ordinary and filament lamps, smart tape, recessed and wall-ceiling lamps are available … Interestingly, all this variety gets along well with each other and is controlled from one smartphone.<\/p>\n

Having received various light bulbs, I was able to completely transform the usual understanding of lighting in myself.\u00a0For example, by combining two colors, you can set any mood.\u00a0Red and Green – Happy New Year!\u00a0Blue and red are Jedi and Sith.\u00a0Purple and pink – la romance.\u00a0That is, the company’s slogan \u201cControl the light – control the inspiration\u201d is not accidental, since different lighting can create a particular atmosphere.\u00a0Here I would like to separately mention the number of presets built into the application, which is surprising.\u00a0Basically, you don’t even need to slide your finger across the color map to do what I’ve listed – you just scroll through the list with modes: candles, sunset, greenhouse … there are dozens of them.\u00a0Dynamic modes created in Paris by lighting experts take you to different corners of the world.<\/p>\n

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If you’re not a fan of parties and color music, Gauss has bulbs for you too.\u00a0These can be either filament versions with a 360 degree dispersion angle and a beautiful design, as well as ordinary LED lamps.\u00a0They allow you to adjust the brightness and temperature of the lighting.\u00a0Surprisingly, even these parameters are enough to create a mood.\u00a0However, I found myself using minimal brightness and warm tones more often.\u00a0In this mode, the light bulb creates a pleasant atmospheric light that does not bother with its presence.\u00a0Cold tones, in turn, help me wake up in the morning.\u00a0A similar system operates in the new cars of the Moscow metro – in the morning the light in the cars is cold, in the evening it is warm.<\/p>\n

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Recall after two weeks of use<\/h2>\n

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