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Through products, services, and words of worth, New England Fine Living’s mission is to help others create their own version of fine living, no matter how simple or grand that may be, no matter where they live. As new items are added to our website you'll find them here in Fresh New Finds, as well as their regular categories such as Art, Pewter, Wood Accessories, Etc... The industry badges represent the primary business activity of Circa Home Living at this specific location. Please select another product or variant. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures.
Sorry, there are no products matching the current criteria. CIRCA, the Australian home fragrance brand, to inspire the modern woman. A collection of simple and uncomplicated scents, there is a fragrance made for every moment, a fragrance that promises to elevate your everyday.
We travel far and wide, building on relationships of over 40 years, to hand-pick European antiques and unique finds for the home. With shops in Charlotte & Birmingham, our mix of contemporary accessories, antiques, artisan goods and upholstery brings Circa’s vision for the home to you. If I wouldn’t use an item myself, use in a client’s home, or gift it to a friend, it will not be part of our offerings. I look forward to sharing the items I’ve been hand-selecting and ordering for NEFL’s newest location and our online shop. New England Fine Living’s newest shop, a complementary union of old and new will not only showcase home decor items that resonate with Linda’s signature Grand Union Style, but also items for homemakers, entertaining, gift giving, and personal pampering. New England Fine Living is for those who enjoy a life-well-lived or strive to elevate the sometimes mundane nature of everyday life.
From glassware to table linens, shop our collection of spring entertaining essentails for all your soirees. Our container of antiques is arriving soon from Europe. Explore our selection of available antiques here. To be in the loop and learn more join our mailing list.
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There is no use case for either warm bright or cold dim light. I'm currently looking to retrofit my place with variable color temperature lights. On one hand, non-hobbyist industry has a ton of great hardware options. High CRI, high R9, guaranteed lack of white point drift, 0.1%-100% dimming (although 85 CRI and % is most of what you'd typically find at Home Depot), etc. It's cool having my basement office lighting switch to evening mode , have the color temp adjust, all at the same time my Mac switches from light mode to dark mode. I use it in all my bedrooms, the living room, bathroom and toilets.
The adaptive lighting feature in Home kit does exactly this out of the box. For me, it’s worked nearly flawlessly, with only one to two bugs, every three months or so. In the early 1990s, NASA scientists began experimenting with HPS lighting to produce leafy greens, such as lettuce, in space. The success of this experiment demonstrated how artificial light might be beneficial across other applications, including human wellness. Additionally, rather than winding down under the stars, we remain very active in the night and often spend evenings hours under the same lighting conditions we had during the day. Keep in mind “daylight” color temp light needs to be bright, or it is percieved as “dingy” or “clinical”, and won’t have the same effect as actual sunlight.
This all works for motion sensors too, and I've been able to massively cut down blue light emission and emission period of outdoor light at night without compromising safety and that I think is quite important for wildlife. There has been research on rampant blue light affecting insect populations, which are under pressure anyway. The goal of circadian lighting is to provide sufficient light signals to the brain to help reinforce the natural light/dark signals we would receive from the sun if we spent more of our time outdoors. A simple mantra to help capture the goal of circadian lighting is, “brighter days and darker nights”. Circadian lighting should provide a strong daytime light signal, telling our brain that it is daytime and to perform all the functions it needs to during the day. At night, we want to reduce that daytime light signal to help our bodies wind down, telling our brain to perform nighttime functions.
Two things, I set this up long ago before tunable bulbs were cheap, and the single tunable bulb I checked out subsequently didn't emit just orange, it had some blue. The config of IoT devices should be just "start an app, point it to your controller, done", not "browse compatibility list and hope HASS supports it and the manufacturer won't break that support on update". I kinda wish industry would converge on one standard for the devices themselves and compete on "IOT cloud/hub controller" instead of trying to build tiny closed ecosystems around eachother. I was curious where you were coming from, since I thought I had read research on this and my own experience is that changing light temperature is incredibly helpful. I have it enabled for all my Nanoleaf bulbs and it’s been wonderful. Looking forward to the future, we predict that people will pay more attention to not just optimizing their homes for different activities but different facets of health—starting with circadian health.
However, our bodies are dependent on the natural lighting cycles of the sun as part of their basic operation, and artificial lighting can interfere with this. Decided to use Home Assistant with some smart lights to try and make home lighting more suitable for our natural circadian rhythms. I use this automation with motion sensors and always powered on bulbs. This way everything is handled in Node-RED for the bulb already and there is little to no latency in color changes. If you are turning bulbs on manually from the wall switch and not leaving them on all the time you may need to build flows around the on event from your bulbs to update their color once they become available.
The reason color tuning fails to meet our biological needs is that virtually all color tuning systems use white LEDs that were designed specifically for vision only. This means that while color tuning allows users to adjust light intensity and hue, the LEDs were not designed to target the circadian system. Because traditional white LEDs were designed for vision and energy efficiency, they do not deliver the key sky-blue wavelengths of light our brains need to effectively stimulate the circadian system. Light’s role in sleep-wake regulation has been studied since the 1980s. However, circadian science – research into the sheer number of bodily processes that run on molecular timers – is relatively new.
Areas of the home where you conduct most of your highly energized activities, like an office, studio, workshop, or gym are best supported with lighting that mimics the blue light from midday sun such as a bright Neutral White bulb. An understanding of how light affects the body is integral to designing a home that supports wellness. In this 7th post of the Happy by Design series, I explain what circadian lighting aims to achieve and I shed light on how to design better lighting without an expensive control system. I have this setup directly with my LifX bulb in my bedroom - it works as both an alarm if I'm not already awake fading up to a daylight white and in the evening gently goes warmer and dimmer.
True and effective circadian lighting includes a specific part of the light spectrum , that helps regulate our circadian rhythms – this sky-blue signal is not found in traditional LEDs. The basic intent was to give the home bright white/blueish light during the day, matching the sun’s output. The light would then be altered to warmer yellow/red tones in the evening. The eye has cells that respond to blue light to regulate our circadian rhythms with the presence of the sun, so reducing blue light at night may help reduce disruption to sleep and other body processes. Dr Amy Bender, a clinical sleep scientist who works with athletes to optimise their circadian rhythms, says that light exposure is both central to our health and poorly understood.
With true circadian lighting, our bodies are getting better daytime light signals which can help improve sleep, mood, and our overall sense of well-being. Jelly, a fan of Huberman Lab’s podcasts, concluded that sleep initiation was his principle issue. “I’d go to bed at wildly different times, sometimes very late, and I’d still be unable to sleep until 3am,” he recalls. He also wakes, sleeps and eats at set times each day (circadian-friendly routine setting being another hacker preoccupation) and hopes to wild camp this coming winter. A 2017 study found that a weekend of winter camping can “entrain” our circadian rhythms to nature’s light-dark cycle, resulting in the earlier winter sleep and wake times of our pre-industrial (or pre-electric lighting) forebears. Today, winter camping is a vogue among hardier circadian hackers.
They've got a hotfix rolling out, but it's been a month or two of random lights turning on or refusing to turn off. Makes the evenings more laid back and I'm able to sleep a bit easier. SAD lights are used at distance of 1-2 ft to get that brightness.
I think Zigbee will be supported and products will continue to be available for a while. Or a self-hosted Thread software might also end up existing. The last two automations and are needed because a door is a secure accessory and those require confirmation if added directly to an automation. But if you trigger them via a dummy switch, you can avoid the confirmation. HomeKit is pretty powerful if you're willing to bolster it with Homebridge and use an alternate app for configuring it .
Varying color temperatures, shown here, play a major role in circadian lighting, but aren't the only element at play. Philips 'warm glow' bulbs are warmer when dim, and cooler when bright. In combination with smart dimmers that allow setting the 'on power' in HA. At sunrise and sunset the on-power for my dimmers is reset to 100% and 30% respectively. I'm thinking of using regular bulbs with smart switches, and dim them, and then add a bit of red light from a color-led strip. Lighting was the first and still most meaningful smarthome thing I've done, though I did it much more manually.
Can improve required wavelengths.Circadian lighting tends to focus on increasing blue light exposure, aiming to produce the peak 490nm blue wavelengths produced by the midday sun. This is great for people who live or work in dark spaces that receive little to no natural light. Exposure to these wavelengths during the daytime help to keep the mind and body alert and active.
I visited a $7500 apartment and it was laughable how they included LEDs that flicker at somewhere around Hz. I just stopped using LEDs until I understand the market more, after already wasting hundreds on failed attempts to find an acceptable LED. For now sticking with warm color temperature incandescent bulbs, which are almost perfect. Orbiting the earth aboard the International Space Station , astronauts experience a sunrise and sunset every 90 minutes — that’s approximately 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours!
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Through products, services, and words of worth, New England Fine Living’s mission is to help others create their own version of fine living, no matter how simple or grand that may be, no matter where they live. As new items are added to our website you'll find them here in Fresh New Finds, as well as their regular categories such as Art, Pewter, Wood Accessories, Etc... The industry badges represent the primary business activity of Circa Home Living at this specific location. Please select another product or variant. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Touch device users, explore by touch or with swipe gestures.
Sorry, there are no products matching the current criteria. CIRCA, the Australian home fragrance brand, to inspire the modern woman. A collection of simple and uncomplicated scents, there is a fragrance made for every moment, a fragrance that promises to elevate your everyday.
We travel far and wide, building on relationships of over 40 years, to hand-pick European antiques and unique finds for the home. With shops in Charlotte & Birmingham, our mix of contemporary accessories, antiques, artisan goods and upholstery brings Circa’s vision for the home to you. If I wouldn’t use an item myself, use in a client’s home, or gift it to a friend, it will not be part of our offerings. I look forward to sharing the items I’ve been hand-selecting and ordering for NEFL’s newest location and our online shop. New England Fine Living’s newest shop, a complementary union of old and new will not only showcase home decor items that resonate with Linda’s signature Grand Union Style, but also items for homemakers, entertaining, gift giving, and personal pampering. New England Fine Living is for those who enjoy a life-well-lived or strive to elevate the sometimes mundane nature of everyday life.
From glassware to table linens, shop our collection of spring entertaining essentails for all your soirees. Our container of antiques is arriving soon from Europe. Explore our selection of available antiques here. To be in the loop and learn more join our mailing list.
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