so we're in the kitchen of our smart home takeover and today we're cooking up a new recipe for the
lighting we're going to take these down lights in the kitchen and turn them from this
rather average lighting into this i'm going to show you how super easy that is using the Ansell
Octo range and the Wiz connected protocol so let's have a look at the Ansell Octo range here gary and we're
starting with our favorite the led strip it's rgb and color tunable white that's the master
version there with the driver you can also get an extension kit next we've got the lamps we're
going to use the gu10 color tunable version there is an rgb and color tunable version
that you can get as well i'm gonna get my hands on that remote control as well good and there's
an occupancy sensor that we're gonna put in this system and don't forget you can also get
this system in the ansel prism range in a kind of suitable white version check out that video
so we're going to replace our gu10s with these smart ones from ansel so it's just a simple case
of getting them obviously out of the box pop out the old ones just to twist in this case in
down i'm sure your eyes are focusing on that ceiling as well this is a new build that's nothing
to do with us so we're just going to put this into the actual lens itself and take out the original
lamp and then that will be the smart Ansell lamp fitted nice and straight forward just pop it in
and all it's required is to screw it back into position before we have a look at the led strip
wow that is easy yeah so the led strip itself we're gonna have to obviously remove the original
lights they're not very good at all are they no so that yeah not much light came out them and a bit
of a strange color so they had to go we're gonna fit them underneath the cabinet and on top as well
so just get these out of the way and then we fit the strip so we changed the atmosphere in
this kitchen with the most minimal amount of input from us we changed a few lamps to smart
ones and we added a bit of led strip yeah we love led strip and when we start mentioning
smarts that's when uh yes some few electricians thought of uh yeah switch off from the process
but the great thing about this Octo system with the Wiz protocol is that it works out of the
box and you get two scenes without doing any commissioning whatsoever so I've installed the
octo lamps here in the hallway and just by simply operating the switch i can go between cool white
and warm white okay no setting up no commissioning just operate that switch exactly the same in the
kitchen where i fit the gu10 lamps just operate the switch and change between cool and warm white
yeah so that's a great system if you want to just get your install done get the system up
and working possibly the client comes along later on and can decide what scenes and colors they want
it's the same on the strip and the great news is obviously these startup scenes you can program
once we get to the app to select those colors that you get when you flick between the switch i
absolutely love that operator switch twice and you can change the lamps or the led strip from cool
white to warm white well that's fantastic gary but in this house obviously these down lights are
controlled by the switch near the door the under cabinet lights are controlled by the switch under
the cabinet if i want to bring them together i can use the app to do that now let's see how easy
that is to set up so let's add the lamps that we've installed to our app so we're going to have
to put the lamps into a discovery mode so choose the lamps make sure your bluetooth is on again
this is the app guiding us through the process and then we're also going to connect to the wi-fi
network it's important to connect to 2.4 gigahertz that's what we see with a lot of these smart
systems they need the range not the data output so that so dead easy to put them into pairing
mode it's a case of switching the lamps off and on and this is actually turning off four isn't
it you've got two on the left-hand side and two on the right-hand side that we can't see so now
the app scanning for those lamps we're looking for four sets of led strip they are coming in now now
we've found those we can finish this part of the process and let's just identify them with the app
just see which ones we've got there so that's the upper one being changed its uh color temperature
yeah if you've got four here you can only see two on the camera at the moment that's the bottom one
um so the next phase really want to give them a sensible name so we can remember uh where
they are when it comes to doing the uh doing the commissioning and set up in any future alterations
okay so your name in is this the bottom say your name in on the left hand side now yes so under
cabinet i think we'll call it that's a sensible sensible way that we can find it and we'll call
it left hand left hand side okay so you're going to name and identify all four sets now are you
yeah right okay oh yeah speeded it up now so yeah so you're going to be named all four yes
right okay what's going to be next then what are you going to look at in the other so now
obviously we've identified and given them names we want to group them together under a scene right
okay so obviously we don't alter each set of lead tape individually we want to do them as a group
right that's where the seams come in so i'm going to set up a scene so again you you set the colors
you want individually that's the first part thing to do but you only obviously have to do this once
once you've set the scene up i'm going to select a color oh this will be interesting
let's go for blue wow like that yeah so i'm going to add that as a standard palette so i can cut
and paste that to other uh other sets of um of the lead strip so i'm going to put that on both upper
upper sections right okay so they're both now blue and you can choose something ah just slightly
alter the color temperature of the lamps under the bench obviously so you might want color above but
obviously you still want white light underneath when you're going to be working in the kitchen
so that was easy i'm just going to create the scene again give it a sensible name i'll call it
blue okay so we've got blue at the top then and we've got a warmer is it a warmer white underneath
uh it's still still coolish right on the skin but it's uh yeah that's uh that's our first scene done
let's repeat now obviously you can pick from some standard dynamic scenes in there so that's
obviously the slight flickering of candlelight in that one there that's already pre-programmed
in so it takes a lot of the work out of you especially on rgb that's another great feature
that is lovely thank you i've paired that with a warmer white this time right and i'm going to call
it our candlelight scene and then obviously step and repeat that through some other scenes again
i like that one as well so we'll do about four scenes for us yeah just let's start with four
scenes just got a warm white in there as well now obviously um we've got those other lamps
you put in as well so let's add them to the control system so again let's put them into a
pairing mode they're on a completely different circuit they're in a completely different switch
you're going to bring the two together now yes and that's the great thing about scenes you
can obviously controlling lamps on different circuits under one scene and that's just uh
yeah simply found those and you're going to be either cool or warm white now with these
yes so there's yeah you can have too much color it's a kitchen and not a disco so i'm
just going to give them a symbol that obviously reflects what they are so they're down light so
let's have a nice downlight symbol in there so again it makes that set up a lot easier
we're going to probably name them again so just find the ones that we're looking for so again
we've seen two of the four that are in this area yeah so just make sure i haven't sort of picked
up a lamp that's in a completely different room so yes again just give them a sensible so i'll
call them cooking area just to differentiate them from the dining area here which is which is on a
different circuit but that doesn't necessarily affect our control when it comes to scenes
so before we add some lamps to the scenes we've just created let's just see how we can set that
default mode that mode 1 and mode 2 when you flick the switch again that's in the app so i'm going
to change it i'd rather come on as warm white when i first switch the light on from a switch
and then add my second mode as cool white so again that's just simply done inside the app
really easy and quick to do so now i'm going to add the lights that we've just added into the
room i'm going to add them to a scene so what i'm going to do now is obviously get the lamps
you know with this red scene here i want them as a nice warm white color to match the uh under shelf
under cabinet lighting that we added earlier so just again going to the app set the walmart
you could also set a different dimmed level if you wanted to in here set them there so then i'm going
to i've set the lamps the way i want them so now just this update the scene that we set earlier so
again just scroll through find the scene and then refresh it with the current status of the lights
and there we go i've added them quickly and easily with a scene so then just repeat that really
simple now the next problem you're thinking i don't like just you know what scene one scene two
here's a way we can actually add a visual image to the app so i'm just taking a photograph of what
the room looks like with that scene and assigning a picture to it well so when you open up the app
then run just in blue you're actually going to see the actual light pattern it creates by clicking
on that one that was gorgeous yeah now this sort of feature you know on a high-end control system
you know a few years ago yeah these were high-end features but on this really easy to set up and can
do it all from your phone this is just shows how powerful this uh octo system with the whiz
protocol is yeah look at that lovely red one as well they'd like the blue early game yeah well
now the reds are fair and the blue's my favorite but i mean it's just looks stunning doesn't it
so that was fantastically easy once again in order to set up the lighting scenes in this
area but maybe i don't always grab my phone i can always use the remote control as well
you can so let's have a look at how easy it is to add a simple remote control to this system
well i'm proper excited about this a remote control with four scenes i can brighten it
and dim it down as well as turn it on and off from this remote control then gordon
yeah so again this is very easy to add to the system again hold on through the app
so we're going to add a remote put the remote into pairing mode it's going to search for it
it doesn't take very long they will go there's our remote um it's already assigned to some scenes but
let's change it so they're assigned to some of the scenes that we set up earlier so i'm going to
select um select the scene itself so we're in the kitchen i'm going to select button number three
and then i'm going to assign that to our blue scene so again just find the scene that we set up
it'll go there's a there's your favorite blue and that was that was that done so let's put
button four as the red scene that we set up so now i've got that on the button press it for blue
but i've also got control that i can turn all the lights off in that area and dim them they're on
three different switches in two different circuits yeah so that's that again saves you altering the
fixed wiring to get control from one location and this is me going through now the remote
control yeah just oh it's just it's great and it's got the four scenes got the ability to dim
as well as obviously brighton and turn it off so there i'm dimming it down and now we go off
yeah there's our lovely red i'll bring that down as well if i just dim that down just see it coming
down yeah we'll pull back in a minute i want to show the sort of the lower end of the kitchen
look at that now let's not forget as well we're not covering in this video but you could also
set it up to work with your voice assistant and actually get voice control of the lights as well
yeah and simple intervention to make it a whale kitchen
so see how simple it was to add the scenes to the app then transfer those scenes onto the
remote control is there any other great features that we can have with this one the keynote most
you might have spotted small occupancy sensor there as well which can be obviously used to
trigger a scene and switch the light off when somebody leaves the room
so i'm going to add our battery powered occupancy sensor the system so again just
clip in these double air batteries i also think there's no wiring to it as well so that's good
so this is an ideal option you know your phone's flat you've lost the remote control
um you'll still want to switch all your circuits on not be messing around with light switches
you can just walk into the room and obviously bring on a scene that you've set or even as a
special nightlight scene as well for that if you don't want to be on at full brightness
okay so this is just going to be screwed i saw you put it on the side of the unit at pointing
the door yeah so again yes that's the best place you know where you're gonna enter the room
it's a nice little compact sense of this okay so bases on you can angle it then uh towards
obviously the doorway and i'll take it then it's a simple process find it in the app yeah so again
getting used to this now add an accessory we need to put the pir into discovery mode
again just a little press on the side flash of the blue led and we're ready to be discovered
again something sensible so i know where it is and possibly what it's doing
and then you can obviously choose uh a scene that that that that's triggered and alter the
parameters associated with it right okay so here we go then so what we're going to alter first then
we might want to just trim the time then say that action what happens when someone
enters the room or leaves the room okay so you just bring that down to about 15 minutes yeah
this ansel octo system with whis is something that i think is incredibly easy i'll watch you
do all those bits on the app thinking i want this in my property gordon yeah now that's something
from somebody who's normally uh yeah shies away from doing anything related to an app but from my
perspective i've spent a lot of time with lighting control systems over the years most of them are
designed by engineers for engineers and i mean you need to spend a lot of time on your laptop
this one is super easy it's got some really powerful features that we have only touched on
the surface of i mean there's things in there you can have plant growth lights you can have relaxing
algorithms you can have it tuned throughout the day yeah a great system easy to install
out of the box easy electrical installation and hopefully some more exciting things to come
well so it's fantastic it's a trusted brand that we see in the lighting industry this is ansel
this product works out of the box the app was easy to install but as always we're interested in your
comments have you fitted the octo range from ansel before what's your feelings is there any
top tips you want to give us is there any little gems within the app that you want to mention in
the comments as always we're interested in your feedback if there's other people in there and you
can help them please help them in the comments and we'll try and answer also as many as we can