The good news is you only need to rebuild the app.
I purchased the LumeniZe Arcadia Jungle Dawn unit with a T5 dimmable Avian bulb for over $300 Australian and at this time it is the only product to come close to being what I want which is simply a smart lighting unit for birds which I can set via an app to brighten like a sunrise at dawn and then dim like a sunset in the evening in order to simulate the most natural lighting possible for my boys who primarily live inside. I have multiple other brands of smart lighting in my home and use the Genio, Hue, Nanoleaf, Holman, WiZ, Tapo, Tuya, Google Home, Apple Home, and I genuinely can’t remember what else apps on a daily basis. Most of these brands, particularly the higher end ones offer either a sunrise and sunset program or a bedtime and wake up program or at the very least a circadian rhythm most of which can work out the sunrise/sunset times themselves based on their access to the internet yet this incredibly expensive piece of equipment which doesn’t even come with instructions for the app has one automatic program which turns the light on at 4:30am and off at 8:30pm, doesn’t explain what copy and paste device means or how to delete custom routines I’ve set up because the automatic routine was wildly inappropriate and I can’t even tell if the lights are capable of brightening and dimming by themselves so a routine has to be an incremental brightness percentage with advancing time values as opposed to setting it at 0% brightness then an hour later setting it at 100% brightness and allowing it brighten slowly over that time.
TL;DR look I don’t typically write reviews unless something is spectacularly good or spectacularly bad because I shop carefully and expect my purchases to simply perform as I’ve paid for. While this may be the only pet lighting with smart functionality at the moment and the fact is it’s only missing a decent app to control it and clear instructions on how to use it it’s that lack that makes it functionally useless because having decent hardware that you can’t use properly is more of a ln infuriating waste of money than having cheap hardware that’s useless. If someone told me the company was made up of wealthy engineers who have never used smart lighting in their lives I’d believe them, they’ve got the hardware sorted now they just need to look at the Philips Hue and Nanoleaf apps specifically for ideas then just look at the grouping, scheduling and the white palette then convert that so your app has the appropriate colour palette per species (with the appropriate bulb), allow for both manual and automatic grouping of lights, scheduling sunrise to sunset according to both time zone and species, and season as that changes the lighting too without forgetting some time zones have daylight savings. That’s what I expected when I bought this unit but it is definitely nothing like what I got and these changes to the app can all be pushed out as an update, my question is why hasn’t this been done yet? I need a second unit but I’ll be damned if I’m spending half a rent cheque on something that doesn’t work properly.
TL;DR look I don’t typically write reviews unless something is spectacularly good or spectacularly bad because I shop carefully and expect my purchases to simply perform as I’ve paid for. While this may be the only pet lighting with smart functionality at the moment and the fact is it’s only missing a decent app to control it and clear instructions on how to use it it’s that lack that makes it functionally useless because having decent hardware that you can’t use properly is more of a ln infuriating waste of money than having cheap hardware that’s useless. If someone told me the company was made up of wealthy engineers who have never used smart lighting in their lives I’d believe them, they’ve got the hardware sorted now they just need to look at the Philips Hue and Nanoleaf apps specifically for ideas then just look at the grouping, scheduling and the white palette then convert that so your app has the appropriate colour palette per species (with the appropriate bulb), allow for both manual and automatic grouping of lights, scheduling sunrise to sunset according to both time zone and species, and season as that changes the lighting too without forgetting some time zones have daylight savings. That’s what I expected when I bought this unit but it is definitely nothing like what I got and these changes to the app can all be pushed out as an update, my question is why hasn’t this been done yet? I need a second unit but I’ll be damned if I’m spending half a rent cheque on something that doesn’t work properly.
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CChardygirl007
Not functional
The timers are purely aesthetic. It’ll turn on at full power at midnight, even though nothing is scheduled
CLchase lyle
Horrible Control
It is INCREDIBLY difficult to manage the illumination of my Ball Python’s enclosure.
The app is extremely touchy and modifying the schedule in ANY way is hit or miss.
Part of the reason that I purchased the Arcadia light systems (which were NOT cheap) was the ability to control the lights with an app.
Turns out that it was a waste of money. I could have saved the $ on the lights and spent it on a Herpstat 4 instead of the HS 2 that I’m running now.
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The app is extremely touchy and modifying the schedule in ANY way is hit or miss.
Part of the reason that I purchased the Arcadia light systems (which were NOT cheap) was the ability to control the lights with an app.
Turns out that it was a waste of money. I could have saved the $ on the lights and spent it on a Herpstat 4 instead of the HS 2 that I’m running now.
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JJonM2006
Severely Disappointed
I really sincerely wanted it to work, having a dimming feature would be so helpful but it just doesn’t work the way they say it does or the way you want it to. I can’t believe I spent sooo much money on this, I bought the Jungle Dawn setup and a T5 setup and I feel like a chump.
Ccunninghamks
So Bad It’s Almost Unbelievable
I bought my first iPhone 18 years ago. In that time I’ve had 100’s of apps of all kinds. LumenIZE is the single worst app I’ve ever used. I would be confident that this app could be high on the list of worst app ever created worldwide. The user interface is a mess, and I have a hard time believing that anyone could have designed something so terrible. If you are an app developer and want to know how not to build an app. Try this one. If you are anyone else, figure out a different way to light your LunenIZE light bar.
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GRGeo Rabbit
