How to Automate Your Lighting at Home
Imagine a home where your lighting seamlessly adapts to your daily routine and preferences. This is the promise of Tapo Smart Actions - a suite of smart home automation features that can transform the way you interact with the lighting in your living spaces.
With Tapo, your home's illumination becomes a responsive, intelligent system that learns your habits and patterns to provide a personalized lighting experience. From gradually brightening your bedroom in the morning to automatically turning off lights when you leave home, Tapo's automation can make your daily routines more efficient, comfortable, and energy-conscious.
What can Tapo Smart Actions do?
- Automate your device at a certain time
Preset a schedule with the Tapo app to automatically manage your smart home devices according to your daily routine and preferences.
- Trigger automations from another device’s actions
Set rules to automate your smart home devices when certain events occur, like another accessory turning on/off or detecting movement.
- Multitasking Made Easy
With Shortcuts, you can control multiple devices all at once for a customizable scene.
Why should you automate your lighting?
From simple one-touch controls to intricate scheduling and sensor-driven triggers, Tapo Smart Actions offers a wealth of possibilities to transform your living space.
-Energy Efficiency
Optimize your energy use by automating your home's lighting based on schedules and smart sensor triggers.
-Accessibility and Convenience
With intuitive app controls, you can manage your home's systems with one-touch convenience, from anywhere.
-Wellness and Health
Create a healthier living environment by synchronizing lighting with your natural sleep-wake cycle.
-Ambience, Mood and Atmosphere
Set the perfect mood and ambience for any occasion, enhancing your home's overall feel.
-Security and Safety
Improve the security and safety of your home by integrating lighting and other security-related devices with, real-time alerts and remote monitoring capabilities.
How can you automate your lighting?
You can always set shortcuts and automation as you need. If you are new to this, no need to worry. Tapo offers rich templates with detailed descriptions for hassle-free setup. You can get inspiration and ignite your imagination. Let’s start with some classic templates to create a more secure and comfortable living space for you and your loved ones.
- Wake Up at Sunrise
As the sun rises, the Tapo smart lights in your bedroom gradually illuminate, their brightness increasing in sync with the natural daylight. Rather than an abrupt alarm, this gentle, gradual wake-up lighting eases you into the morning, helping you feel refreshed and alert without the startled sensation of a jarring alarm. The smart lighting fades on alongside the sunrise, creating a calm, natural transition to start your day.
2. Automate Devices When I Leave Home (Geofencing)
As you head out for work, tap the shortcut on your Tapo app. The app's geofencing technology detects when you've left your home's perimeter, and automatically turns off all the lights. No more worrying about wasted electricity if you forgot to check. With one tap, location-based automation takes care of it, letting you start your commute with peace of mind.
3. Detection Lights
Your security camera may detect a potential intruder, but the view is not clear enough to capture details that could serve as supporting evidence later on. In such a scenario, you can use “Detection Lights” to automatically turn on your lights when the camera senses something suspicious. This allows you to illuminate the area, potentially deterring the intruder and providing better visibility for any necessary follow-up actions.
4. Movie Night
It's Friday evening, and you're settling in with your family for a cozy movie night at home. As you all gather in the living room, simply tap the "Movie Night" shortcut on the Tapo app on your smartphone. Immediately, the room is bathed in a warm, cinematic glow, transforming into a cozy, theater-like space. Now you can sink into the comfy sofas, grab some popcorn, and fully immerse yourselves in the movie.
5. Prepare for Sleep
It's 10 pm and you're in your PJs. Tap the "Prepare for Sleep" shortcut on your Tapo app, and the living room and kitchen lights dim and turn off while the bedroom lights gently illuminate, creating a relaxing mood. As you settle in to read, set the bedroom lights to turn off automatically in 45 minutes. This way, if you get absorbed in your book, the lights will power down on their own, conserving energy as you drift off to sleep.
The above is only a small part of what Tapo offers for you to automate your lighting at home. For more details, please visit Tapo Smart Actions | TP-Link to explore more possibilities and experience the magic of a smart home.
