Sunrise / Sunset / Daylight Alarm Lamps?

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I have seen these things gaining popularity over the years. At first I thought they would be gimmicky and near useless but more recently I thought to at least try one out.

We're a few days into using this lower end one - Beurer WL50. It's actually quite impressive. I have ours set to start 30 minutes before the alarm itself goes off. In that time the dim light turns on and gradually brightens. This morning I woke up without needing to adapt to the fairly bright light and feeling a bit more alert than I typically would upon waking.

The reason for this thread is to see if any other forum users have these types of lamps and which they would recommend. I want a better one, mainly because the alarm sound options are limited and the birds chirping track is short and terribly stitched on loop. App control would be perfect too.

Any daylight alarm users here? How do you rate them?
 
Definitely need an upgrade! It ran out of power last night so I plugged it in again to charge. I hadn't realised that it had reset itself when the battery went flat.

No wake up light or artificial bird-chirping this morning.
 
I use the smart alarm on my phone to more gradually wake me up than a sudden alarm blaring out - definitely better than being suddenly jerked out of sleep.
 
We've been using two Philips HF3520/01 for 9 years and they're excellent and still working fine and we wouldn't go back to just an audible alarm not matter how slowly it ramps up the sound level. Waking up due to light is just so much better.

The HF3519/01 is a similar current model and their some other variants as well.
 
Philips HF3520/01 here as well and its brilliant. Used to be rubbish in the mornings and at waking up but since getting the Philips a couple of years back been finding I wake up feeling a lot less tired and can actually get up earlier! Don't use it during the summer as we have curtains open but its a must for the winter.
 
With a Hue bulb in bedside light can't you get the same effect as a purpose light, doesn't take additional space, and can be a more aesthetic, indirect light.
(.... moreover usually use the radio r4 farming today/tweet of the day!/today ,to wake up to, a more comfortable daily news feed than looking at a phone )
 
jpaul said:
With a Hue bulb in bedside light can't you get the same effect as a purpose light, doesn't take additional space, and can be a more aesthetic, indirect light.
(.... moreover usually use the radio r4 farming today/tweet of the day!/today ,to wake up to, a more comfortable daily news feed than looking at a phone )
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I tried the Hue approach a few years back as I have a lot of their bulbs, Go and other devices but in the end we switched back to the Philips wake up lights we used previously.

The Hue colour bulbs/Go aren't cheap (and needed to get the full red/orange glow to white colours) although good wake up lights are way more costly. The colour Hue bulbs I tried also didn't dim as much and didn't go anywhere near as bright, and with our bedside lights didn't give the same nice wide even spread of light as the wake up units. The final reason was we found dedicated units easier to use/configure when tired or half asleep.
 
Simon42 said:
I tried the Hue approach a few years back as I have a lot of their bulbs, Go and other devices but in the end we switched back to the Philips wake up lights we used previously.
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OK thought they would be a cheaper/try-out way in - latest BT white ambiance , had been £13, which should, with dimming& colours, from warm 2.7K upwards be ok ? (maybe not for kenyan sunrise) versus wake up lights £40+
currently bedside light shade is mm from wall to attenuate too bright the 4k 800lm bulb

Coincidentally they seem to have update their app this year https://hueblog.com/2022/06/22/wake-up-naturally-how-the-new-philips-hue-wake-up-light-works/
 
I had hoped this thread would've brought up some suitable cheaper alternatives to these pricey alarms. It's mental how expensive they are when reading reviews about how little customisation there is.

If i upgrade my phone soon i might try a smart bulb or smart app to get the same thing.
 
I had a Lumie for a number of years and found it helped with waking up in the morning. So much so I think it worked a little too well and I don't own one anymore as I get up at the crack of dawn by default now :eek:
 
I'm using an ikea tradfri smart bulb (in the main room lamp) for this. Not as good as a dedicated sunrise daylight alarm (it's just light for a start, no sound), but I didn't get it with this in mind, so it kinda feels like I got the wake up/alarm function for free :p
It definitely helps me wake up though
 
I’ve got a philips one, I just checked amazon have had it since June 2010. Hasn’t missed a beat.

I don’t even think I’ve replaced the bulb. I only use the light function in winter though, starts the light softly at 5.15 then wakes me at 5.45 for me getting up at 6.
 
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