<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><div>There are already lights which are remotely controllable. (I already have a number of them and hopefully get my entire house with them) (a third of my house has them). Just remove your existing bulbs and put the hue ones in.</div><div><br></div><div>The Philips HUE Bulbs/ Hue Lamps and new HUE LED Strips are all dimmable (and colour changeable) via remote control via simple json commands to the controller.</div><div><br></div><div>XMBC already has plugins which do various things such as dim all the bulbs when a movie starts or change the colour of the philips stuff depending on what is playing and would be easily programmed for MythTV (I've not looked if someone already has written something). They also have IFTTT integration (i.e. Turn lights on lounge when it gets dark or flash the lights when someone tweets you etc)</div><div><br></div><div>You can go for a cheaper lights such as the limitless led stuff but you can only control them all together with 1 colour and having multiple rooms means multiple controllers</div><div><br></div><div>- Craig</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>