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Bethan Morgan

INSANE: This underrated smart light feature lets you use your bulbs as timers heres how | Rare Historical Photos

Philips Hue.

Hate loud alarms? If you have smart lights set up in your house, you can use them as timers and alarms instead – here’s how.

Replacing your ‘normal’ light bulbs with smart ones is a must if you want to take advantage of thousands of colours, different brightness levels and remote use. There are plenty of handy tricks you can use your smart lights for – like having them tell you if someone’s broken into your house – but an underrated feature that I recently discovered is you can use your smart lights as timers.

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