This Is How Much Electricity Your Smart Home Uses (My Hue Lightstrip Costs £10 Per Month!!)

[@dankelley9361]

Nice coverage an explanation of power consumption. It’s comforting to know that most of the devices are efficient except for the Philip Hues light strip. Seems that not only are they expensive but also expensive to operate too!

[@SmartHomePoint]

Thanks, glad you found the video helpful. Apparently Hue Lightstrips are going up in price a lot across the EU and UK soon, so they'll become even more expensive then 😔

[@theattorney6072]

@@SmartHomePoint Hello, why would they go up in Price ? Thx

[@SmartHomePoint]

Signify announced this a week or two ago. Their prices are going up in February, due to the dollar and yuan getting stronger against the euro and pound. 😔

[@theattorney6072]

@@SmartHomePoint Thx for the info. I don't honnestly see how they Can raise the Price more than it is already. Maybe they should lower their huge margin instead ??

[@SmartHomePoint]

I agree entirely, it's frustrating. If Paul Hibbery was here, he'd probably shout CORPORATE GREED 😅

[@porschecarreras992cabriole8]

I think the most important is the stanby power consumption. When you run the lights of course they use electricity but they are so bright and certainly very energy efficient. The outdoor 5 metre light strip is amazing bright so 40 watts is not bad at all. It would be interesting to compare the luminance as well as it is very relèvent as well. So you can say to achieve 100 lumens how many watts you consume?

[@SmartHomePoint]

That's a good point actually. I guess it's not too bad when you put it like that. I'll aim to do lumens per watts at some point, that'll definitely be worth doing 🙂

[@nikolaireynolds3705]

Nice, thanks for the information.

[@LackofFaithify]

ALL RGB LED lights use an insane amount of energy to do white. Remember white is all the colors combined, so add up the max power usage of all red, all green, and all blue. If you want white, make sure you use LEDs that have dedicated white (cold white, warm white, etc...) and it will actually look good too.

[@jdmstrods7680]

Nice video but i have another question. When Philips hue is turned off by an app not killed with the switch how much power they are using ?

[@SmartHomePoint]

Thanks, and good question. It went below 0.5 watts when I tested it, so it's essentially in standby mode in this case. I couldn't get a tracker that went below 0.5 watts, but at least we know it's fairly energy efficient when it's 'fake off' (i.e. lights are off but power is still flowing to it).

[@porschecarreras992cabriole8]

@@SmartHomePoint individually it is small consumption but if you think that I have 40 lights x 0.5W it keeps adding

[@SmartHomePoint]

Yeah that's true too, fair point 🙂