What is?
the kitchen lighting goes to purple alert.
In a vague attempt to make the kitchen more pleasant, I have augmented the landlord-issue central pendant that casts a shadow on whatever you're doing with:
- A smart bulb in a basic ES lamp holder screwed to a Mk 1 Useful Bit Of Wood™ from ye shedde. This is plonked on top of the fridge, pointing upwards into the gloomy corner.
- Some of that 12V LED strip stuff, stuck to the underside of the cupboards above the useful bit of work surface. Driven by a Chinesium LED strip controller.
Both of these are running
Tasmota[1], with some rules that turn them on automagically when there's someone in the room in hours of gloom. So far, so sensible.
But since they're both capable of full RGBW colour-mixing
[2], I've added assorted rules to change their colour to something garish and primary to indicate things-the-alerting-system-is-trying-to-draw-barakta's-attention-to. Doorbell, fire alarm, phone ringing, that sort of thing. Purple Alert was a late addition for barakta's hip surgery last year, which is triggered by one of those hospital nursey-call-button thingers, with a view to me getting some decent sleep in the proper bed upstairs while she was living in the dining room. I've never actually seen it happen from the kitchen (I copy&pasted the colour rules from the landing light) before, until testing something last week.
[1] Internet-of shit devices without the internet, basically.
[2] Without changing the bulb, like they have to do in Starbug.
