Setting the Mood with Lighting, Music & Automation

Let Smart Home Scenes Create the Ideal Atmosphere

Consider your home environment and the powerful impact that lighting and music have on its ambiance. When entertaining, you might open the shades to reveal beautiful landscape lighting and stream your “Entertain” playlist. When relaxing, you lower the shades and dim the lights. 

What if your automated home created the ideal environment for you? With one tap on an elegant keypad or a voice command, it can. 

Here, we’ll explore how you can create the ideal mood for all of life’s activities through scenes that transform a home through the power of light and music. 

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Creating the Ideal Mood

Imagine walking into your home after a long day and changing the ambiance to match your mood or create a relaxing environment by pressing a keypad. With a single touch, the lighting and shades adjust to the ideal setting, and the perfect playlist streams through your home. 

Now, consider the many activities that define your days and imagine transforming the atmosphere for each one effortlessly. Whether enjoying a movie night with the family, hosting a dinner party with friends, or setting up the perfect date night with your partner, the right lighting and music make all the difference. 

Understanding Scenes

Scenes make one-touch control of your lighting, shades, and music possible. By integrating advanced LED lighting systems, such as Lutron’s Ketra, you can customize your lights to your exact preferences by changing the colour temperature and intensity. These lights dim to 0.1%, an exceptionally low level that resembles candlelight and fades slowly to a warm glow. Ketra also offers an unlimited colour palette, ranging from soft pastels to saturated hues. Motorized shades help create the perfect setting, whether by bringing natural light indoors, enhancing privacy, or showcasing picturesque views. 

On top of this perfectly illuminated space, music is the crowning glory. With whole-home audio, you can stream energetic tunes in every room, sing along to Broadway numbers, or play electronic beats for focused work time. 

Home automation scenes create the ideal atmosphere by automatically adjusting each of these systems. Changes may be activated by the time of day, your location, pressing a button, or a voice command. 

Josh.ai, a voice assistant designed for smart homes, makes these voice commands possible. It knows how scenes work, so when you say, “Ok, Josh, I’d like to relax,” it understands the ideal lighting, music, and level of natural light or privacy you’d like in the room. It also knows all the vast colours available with the Ketra lighting system—a number that’s well over 16 million.   

Setting Up the Perfect Environment for Guests

You can also manage your home and these pre-set scenes remotely through your mobile device and a smart home app. When friends arrive unexpectedly, or dinner guests appear when you’re picking up the finishing touches for a lovely evening, one tap on an icon can create the ideal environment as they wait for you. 

Examples of Programmed Scenes

The possibilities are nearly limitless when it comes to setting up customized scenes. The following represent just a few of the many possible scenes and their unique effects: 

• Movie Night: Dims the lights and lowers the shades in the media room. 

• Date Night: Adjusts the lighting to a candlelight glow, streams your “Romantic” playlist throughout the home, and lowers the shades.

• Entertain: The lights throughout the home adjust based on your preferences. For some, that may mean a shimmering arctic blue in the bathrooms, vibrant illumination for artwork and architectural features, and subtle shades of gold and indigo throughout the rest of the home. Celine Dion or Alanis Morissette fills the house and outdoor areas with exceptional music coming from in-ceiling and landscape speakers. Some shades open for the view while others close for privacy. 

• Good Night: This scene turns off every light and the music while lowering the shades.

As you can imagine, the various aesthetics you can create through scenes are endless. To learn more about creating an environment that aligns with every mood and occasion, contact Lucent Controls.