Control Your Smart Bulbs With Emoji Stickers
I recently bought some smart bulbs and am planning to expand my collection of smart bulbs. However, I noticed a slight inconvenience during setup: it was difficult to determine which light was which without looking at the application. So I added a visual aid to my light bulbs with emoji stickers. It is much easier to see that the banana light has gone out than trying to figure out which bulb is the living room shade 7 light bulb when your ceiling fan is off.
Get some stickers
You will need stickers, of course. You can get 1,344 emoji stickers on Amazon. They are tiny, only half an inch in diameter, so the light bulb will not be affected. If you have light bulbs inside fixtures such as lampshades or sconces, you won’t even see them until you need them.
Since smart bulbs are LEDs and don’t heat up like traditional bulbs, you don’t have to worry about stickers melting or peeling off.
Use similar emoji as visual aids
You definitely have more than a few lights in each room, so to keep things simple, assign the emoji rooms by category. I have assigned fruit emoji for my living room and emoji emoji for my office. No doubt you can use matching home emojis for the rest, or separate them by color.
This will make it easier for you if you ever have to move. You can leave your lamp settings as they were without having to reassign or rearrange them because you forgot which lamp went where.
Assign emoji in the app
After you select a few stickers and stick them on your smart light bulb, you will have to rename them accordingly. In the Philips Hue app, you can simply add an emoticon to the name of the light bulb.
Even if you don’t have a ton of smart gear, categorizing them with this emoji shortcut makes it easier to manage gear you add in the future.