I own one of their other models (bought from Meh, long ago) and it’s nice for those rare times when I want to stare at the ceiling and bliss out (or whatever the kids are calling it these days).
However, when our house loses power and then it comes back on, the Blisslight also comes back on. There is a physical power button on the side which, when pressed, basically does nothing. A kind Meh’er advised me to hold down the power button for a few seconds and while that causes the device to blink a couple times, it still will not turn off. The only way (short of unplugging it until the next time I want to use it) to turn it off is to pull up the app and power it off there. And bonus frustration is that last time this happened, I must’ve gotten a new phone since I got the Blisslight, so it wasn’t paired and I could not get it paired, so now it sits on the nightstand, unplugged. (And yes, I’ve followed the manual; I’m not just winging-it by pressing buttons and hoping. I’m abbreviating things because it’s early (for me).)
Maybe – if I can ever get it paired again – it’s worth buying a tiny battery backup for it…
@andymand If yours is like mine, pressing and holding the button puts it in pairing mode. To turn it off you have to cycle through every mode, with the last one being off. It’s difficult to tell which mode you’re on and they change slowly so I often miss the “off” and have to cycle back through them, even slower the next go, so that I don’t miss it twice (which I’ve done). It’s quite frustrating–hovering over the thing for 20-30 seconds at best (more like a mintue) while it’s blasting bright light in your direction.
@Waterpumpee I wasn’t sure which button was the “mode” button, so I Googled for the manual:
Top button (effects):
• Power on
• Press and hold until flashing stops to pair
• 7 Default Modes (All, fading, stars only,
cloud only, ocean, space, sunrise)
• User-created app modes
• Power off
Middle button (rotation):
• Rotation off
• Rotation on
Bottom button (brightness):
• High
• Medium
• Low • Press and hold to power off without
cycling through all effect modes
Do these units remember that last setting? Would I be able to pair with a phone, create a setting, then unplug/plug it in and it does the same light setting everytime without the phone/app running?
Got two recently on SideDeal–delivered a few weeks ago. I wanted one for my office for some ambient lighting since I don’t use the main light in here. They are…okay…I guess…
For the size of the thing I was hoping for more coverage. I can sit it on the floor and angle to get some decent area illuminated, however, I’ve not been able to find a spot like this that doesn’t hit your line of sight while entering/exiting/existing in the room. The light source is kinda bright–not fun to look at directly so the best I’ve found is to put it directly on my desk. The ideal setup (for me) is to see the lighting on the ceiling/wall and not the source. Even with the new approach, there is a giant white eye sore on my desk so I have retired it after 2 weeks of use. Maybe I’ll bust it back out.
The second one went in my 10-year-old’s room. He’s used it a couple of times and it doesn’t look out of place in there at all.
Turning it off is kind of a pain; you press a button (attached to power cord) to turn it on and then press the button to switch lighting modes. The switch between modes is SLOW. You have to cycle through all modes (6 of them?) to turn it off. It’s difficult to tell when you’ve gotten to the last mode so often end up going right past power off and back to the beginning to start the whole thing over again. Pressing and holding the button puts it in pairing mode and the app is complete garbage that I didn’t bother giving the permissions to. Oh, and if you find the perfect angle, don’t worry–you’ll lose it when you press the button 20 times to find the desired mode or turn it on/off; unless you have it sitting on the small flat spot on the back (light projects straight up), the sphere moves within the grooved base with every little touch. That setup is great for finding your exact angle–terrible for keeping it.
Paid $25 for the 2 lights and, all in all, if I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t. Maybe for $10. Perhaps if it was easier to turn on/off/switch modes it would be more tolerable. Just seems like every facet of these things are irritating in some sort of way.
I have something like this sin the corner of my office, and like the vibe. The green “stars” are constantly visible and in place while a blue “cloud” moves around behind them. A video (without the dance act) would help determine what the different “modes” look like far better than the static photos. Dumb(?) question: Why are these white when they’re supposed to be used in a semi-dark room and nobody wants to look at the things? (Maybe that’s why Meh’s got 'em?)
Waitaminute… You need one unit for the cloud effect and a different/second one for the stars? Definitely Meh.
So just got mine and they work fine, but looks like the app is no longer available in the Google play store. Anyone have any luck using another app to control this thing?
@ddbelyea I already had the Smart Life - Smart Living app installed and my phone and it works! The app icon is an outline of a house with two radar waves coming out of the roof.
@ddbelyea@the38steps Thanks! This worked for me, too! This was a little hard to understand from the PDF that arrives with the light but here’s what I found:
I got the version with the laser dot “stars” + multiple colors.
The device comes with like 6 pre-defined scenes. If you tap the inline button on the cord, it cycles through those scenes (and “off”)
The app allows you to select a range of colors for the nebula pattern. These are really only pretty subtly different from one another, so there isn’t a lot of fine-tuning available.
The app also allows you to configure the rotation speed of the laser stars + the brightness of those stars
IMO, there isn’t a lot of useful customization that the app offers and it’s somewhat burdensome to get the app and configure it. The key thing I didn’t realize is that changing between scenes by pressing the button triggers a fairly gradual shift between scenes. I initially didn’t think the button was doing anything, but that’s just because of how slow its blend is from scene to scene and how similar the scenes are (slightly different nebula color + slightly different start behavior). The one scene that is definitely recognizable is called “Ocean” - this turns off the stars and sets the nebula to a blue, so it looks kind of like water.
Overall I think this is a good little light of this type.
@user60047496 the best I can do is the recommendation to use punctuation it helps improve reading comprehension your readers it does not pay strong homage to cormac mccarthy though I guess you need to make some decisions about what is important in life
Specs
Product: 2-Pack: BlissLights Sky Lite Evolve LED Galaxy Cloud Projector
Model: SKY-CLOUD-RCWB, SKY-EVOLVE-B-RCWB, SKY-EVOLVE-G-RCWB,
Condition: New
What’s Included?
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Price Comparison
$79.98 (for 2) at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Friday, Nov 28 - Monday, Dec 1
About time you showed up for work @mediocrebot.
/showme mediocrebot is drunk again
If I buy this, will I be supplied with dance moves like in the video, or do I have to supply those myself?
@xobzoo Depends. Are you hooked up to the matrix?
No comment(s). Almost literally.
@Trinityscrew
I own one of their other models (bought from Meh, long ago) and it’s nice for those rare times when I want to stare at the ceiling and bliss out (or whatever the kids are calling it these days).
However, when our house loses power and then it comes back on, the Blisslight also comes back on. There is a physical power button on the side which, when pressed, basically does nothing. A kind Meh’er advised me to hold down the power button for a few seconds and while that causes the device to blink a couple times, it still will not turn off. The only way (short of unplugging it until the next time I want to use it) to turn it off is to pull up the app and power it off there. And bonus frustration is that last time this happened, I must’ve gotten a new phone since I got the Blisslight, so it wasn’t paired and I could not get it paired, so now it sits on the nightstand, unplugged. (And yes, I’ve followed the manual; I’m not just winging-it by pressing buttons and hoping. I’m abbreviating things because it’s early (for me).)
Maybe – if I can ever get it paired again – it’s worth buying a tiny battery backup for it…
@andymand If yours is like mine, pressing and holding the button puts it in pairing mode. To turn it off you have to cycle through every mode, with the last one being off. It’s difficult to tell which mode you’re on and they change slowly so I often miss the “off” and have to cycle back through them, even slower the next go, so that I don’t miss it twice (which I’ve done). It’s quite frustrating–hovering over the thing for 20-30 seconds at best (more like a mintue) while it’s blasting bright light in your direction.
@Waterpumpee thank you! I will try your steps!
@Waterpumpee I wasn’t sure which button was the “mode” button, so I Googled for the manual:
Top button (effects):
• Power on
• Press and hold until flashing stops to pair
• 7 Default Modes (All, fading, stars only,
cloud only, ocean, space, sunrise)
• User-created app modes
• Power off
Middle button (rotation):
• Rotation off
• Rotation on
Bottom button (brightness):
• High
• Medium
• Low
• Press and hold to power off without
cycling through all effect modes
So I’m gonna try that last one next!
Interested, but I really only want one
@shllybkwrm You can send the second one to me.
Do these units remember that last setting? Would I be able to pair with a phone, create a setting, then unplug/plug it in and it does the same light setting everytime without the phone/app running?
Thanks!
@outsourced_bob
See @andymand’s comment above, and @waterpumpee’s below…
/giphy frustratingly inconvenient lightshow
Got two recently on SideDeal–delivered a few weeks ago. I wanted one for my office for some ambient lighting since I don’t use the main light in here. They are…okay…I guess…
For the size of the thing I was hoping for more coverage. I can sit it on the floor and angle to get some decent area illuminated, however, I’ve not been able to find a spot like this that doesn’t hit your line of sight while entering/exiting/existing in the room. The light source is kinda bright–not fun to look at directly so the best I’ve found is to put it directly on my desk. The ideal setup (for me) is to see the lighting on the ceiling/wall and not the source. Even with the new approach, there is a giant white eye sore on my desk so I have retired it after 2 weeks of use. Maybe I’ll bust it back out.
The second one went in my 10-year-old’s room. He’s used it a couple of times and it doesn’t look out of place in there at all.
Turning it off is kind of a pain; you press a button (attached to power cord) to turn it on and then press the button to switch lighting modes. The switch between modes is SLOW. You have to cycle through all modes (6 of them?) to turn it off. It’s difficult to tell when you’ve gotten to the last mode so often end up going right past power off and back to the beginning to start the whole thing over again. Pressing and holding the button puts it in pairing mode and the app is complete garbage that I didn’t bother giving the permissions to. Oh, and if you find the perfect angle, don’t worry–you’ll lose it when you press the button 20 times to find the desired mode or turn it on/off; unless you have it sitting on the small flat spot on the back (light projects straight up), the sphere moves within the grooved base with every little touch. That setup is great for finding your exact angle–terrible for keeping it.
Paid $25 for the 2 lights and, all in all, if I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t. Maybe for $10. Perhaps if it was easier to turn on/off/switch modes it would be more tolerable. Just seems like every facet of these things are irritating in some sort of way.
Are the yoga clothes and diaphanous robe over on side deal?
@DonWhiteside missed opportunity.
Where the hell is the “Blue Stars and Cloud” option??
@Trinityscrew This is our not-frustrating-at-all way of saying we’re limited on blue
Do the lights appear to move on the walls, or are they stationary?
@bleukatt if they’re similar to previous liss products, they do not move but twinkle
“AI” Garbge.
@DrunkCat More amazing results of your creative writing. How do you keep being so creative? They must really be impressed with your skills.
@yakkoTDI lol okay mr. “incorrect fact”. bot some more
Are you sold out? Can’t seem to place order.
@thumperchick
@JimBrown Which option are you selecting from the dropdown list?
2 paxk blissy sky projectors
These would honestly be great in a hospital room.
I have something like this sin the corner of my office, and like the vibe. The green “stars” are constantly visible and in place while a blue “cloud” moves around behind them. A video (without the dance act) would help determine what the different “modes” look like far better than the static photos. Dumb(?) question: Why are these white when they’re supposed to be used in a semi-dark room and nobody wants to look at the things? (Maybe that’s why Meh’s got 'em?)
Waitaminute… You need one unit for the cloud effect and a different/second one for the stars? Definitely Meh.
So just got mine and they work fine, but looks like the app is no longer available in the Google play store. Anyone have any luck using another app to control this thing?
@ddbelyea I already had the Smart Life - Smart Living app installed and my phone and it works! The app icon is an outline of a house with two radar waves coming out of the roof.
@ddbelyea @the38steps Thanks! This worked for me, too! This was a little hard to understand from the PDF that arrives with the light but here’s what I found:
IMO, there isn’t a lot of useful customization that the app offers and it’s somewhat burdensome to get the app and configure it. The key thing I didn’t realize is that changing between scenes by pressing the button triggers a fairly gradual shift between scenes. I initially didn’t think the button was doing anything, but that’s just because of how slow its blend is from scene to scene and how similar the scenes are (slightly different nebula color + slightly different start behavior). The one scene that is definitely recognizable is called “Ocean” - this turns off the stars and sets the nebula to a blue, so it looks kind of like water.
Overall I think this is a good little light of this type.
I ordered blue stars the sky is blue not green I want blue stars send it
@user60047496 the best I can do is the recommendation to use punctuation it helps improve reading comprehension your readers it does not pay strong homage to cormac mccarthy though I guess you need to make some decisions about what is important in life