Trapp/Stairs

This room contains solutions for the following systems (notice that on phones, the table might only be displayed in landscape mode):

Description of the solutions in this room

In the stairs, we have a couple of lighting solutions, first consisting of two wall lamps that each has two Philips Hue GU10 smart bulbs, see picture below. These are mostly controlled based on the time of day; they turn on in the morning with the “Good Morning” scene at 06:30 and off with the “Good Night” scene when we go to bed. For a room with high ceiling, like a staircase usually is, we can certainly recommend the type of lamps used here, with one bulb pointing up and one down, as they give a nice light effect on the walls.

As mentioned under some other rooms, a challenge about smart lights is that they “work” only as long as they have power and are connected online, something that can be a challenge for lights that can be turned off using an old-fashioned light switch. This was the case here, so after a while, the old wall switch was replaced by a smart witch, with a display, from Aqara, see picture below. This is connected in such a way that it does not physically turn off the lamps, and thus does not take power from the smart bulbs, but has been set up with “buttons” on the screen that partly turn on/off the lights in the stairs (and the library) as well as activate a couple of scenes.

Recently, yet another light source, the very last in the house with purely manual control, was connected. A Yeelight smart bulb that did not work in the fish tank in the living room was put in a spot light in the staircase, see pictures below. The spotlight is hardly ever in use, but connecting it “closed a gap”.

The very last light source here is Philips Hue lightstrip installed under the stairs leading from the basement to the first floor, along the side wall, see picture below. This gives a subtle and nice light in an otherwise dark area, and it is part of the scenes “Afternoon Lights” and “Good Night”.