Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to sync up your lights to match your music or movies? Luckily, there’s an app for that! There are programs that can help connect your smart lights to your music and create the perfect mood.
Smart lights are designed to complement whatever is playing on your screen or whatever music is playing in the room. The lights will sync up with whatever sounds are playing in the room and will react and, in a way, interact, with those sounds of music.
Whether you’re hoping to relax in the evenings or host a light show or dance party with your friends, smart lights can help provide the perfect lighting for that. However, it can be tricky to get used to all the different settings and features of your smart lights at first.
How Smart Lights React to Music
Smart lights are a new way to personalize the entertainment space in your home and to control it all from your phone. As we looked over a few online forums, we found that around 80% of people who had experience with Smart Lights recommended the Philips Hue brand, saying that it was the most reliable when it comes to connection, and on average, the longest lasting bulb.
Essentially, how smart lights work and react to music is that the program captures the sound of whatever it is you’re listening to, whether it’s a movie or music, and it translates that sound into a sort of “light script.” This means that the smart lights are playing off of whatever sounds they’re “hearing.” It will pick up on the beat of the drum and match that with a steady pulsing of lights, or maybe a blaring trumpet solo sends the lights into a flurry of red and orange.
Whatever it be, the smart lights will help to capture the feeling of the sounds it “hears” and transform that into a visual representation of light. This can help people feel even more connected to the music they already love. It becomes a more immersive experience to hear and visualize the music at the same time.
There are also different themes and colors available to use with your smart lights. You can adjust the intensity of the lights along with the color palette used to get the perfect mood you’re looking for.
In short, the smart lights will adapt and listen to the type of song being played and also match the beat of the music. This will create a light script in the moment which will match the music you’re listening to with the display of your smart lights.
Whether you prefer quick dramatic changes or subtle shifts and slow dynamic effects in the lighting, you can always adjust the settings to match the sort of effects you prefer.
How Smart Lights React to Images and Videos
In addition to complementing sounds, this technology can also be used to sync up your smart lights to whatever picture or movie is being shown on your screen. Not only will they be in sync with the music, but they will also be in sync with and complement whatever is being shown visually on the screen.
If a sunset is being shown on the screen, the lights may be a shade of orange to complement that. If the other half of the screen is a darker color, the lights on that side of the screen will match that as well.
Basically, the lights are programmed to create a “light script” for them to follow. This is based on the content that is being viewed or played on the screen. The program uses a sort of color algorithm to match the smart lights’ color to what’s happening on-screen in real-time.
Reactive Smart Lights
Smart lights work together with whatever is being played. You aren’t limited to just a few songs, movies, or even to any one movie or music streaming service. Smart lights pay attention to the sounds or visuals that are being played.
Even while it is reacting to a movie and the visuals of that, the lights can also listen to and react to the movie’s soundtrack.
In addition to all this, smart lights are reactive with games as well. Sometimes with movies, it may feel distracting as you’re trying to become part of the world shown onscreen, but with games, smart lights can actually help to make the experience even more immersive.
This process is the same as with movies or music. The smart lights react to and complement what is being shown on screen or what is happening in the game and with the music being played.
How to Sync Up Your Music with Your Smart Lights
As mentioned previously, there are various settings and controls to help you get exactly what you’re imagining out of your smart lights.
You can adjust the brightness of the lights and how intensely they shine. You can also choose how immersive the lights are and how they can make the experience more personalized. The mode can also be changed to match the type of entertainment you are using.
You can change the color tones or even the color themes. You can adjust different lighting levels and shades of colors to perfectly match your entertainment environment.
Home Streamliner’s Take:
There are many advantages that come with smart technology and implementing it into your home.
It’s useful and efficient. You can adjust the lighting in your home from your phone. It gives you more control over the lighting and different lighting effects being used in your home. This means that you can control the intensity and dim the lights with your phone as well. Dimmer switches are a thing of the past with these new smart lights.
Some smart lights will even let you create automatic and personalized lighting schedules to help you in your daily schedule. Whether it be slowly brightening to help you wake up in the morning or dimming in the evenings to help you wind down, smart lights can be adjusted to match your lifestyle.
Of course, technology still isn’t perfect and smart lights won’t always match exactly with the music or movie that is playing. However, the progress thus far is still impressive.
Until smart lights are perfectly reactive, we can still enjoy them for what they can already do now and they can definitely be used to put on one heck of a light show.
