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New app for Google Assistant that answer all your questions

Telling is faster than writing. And we are happy to announce that you get fast support about all our Turn Off the Lights products, thanks to Google Assistant (in Google Home, Phones, and Allo). You can ask any questions you have about the “Turn Off the Lights” software. And each time the personal assistant will become better and better when you use the app.

Google Assistant

These are the actions you can say:
“Talk to Turn Off the Lights Support to how to enable the Night Mode feature?”
“I want to speak to Turn Off the Lights Support for seeing no lamp button”
“Talk to Turn Off the Lights Support about who is the founder”
“I want to speak to Turn Off the Lights Support for the video is also dimmed”
“Speak to Turn Off the Lights Support to where can I change the opacity?”

But you can also ask your Google Home device (or Google Assistant app) a question about who we are, when the first version went online, where you do live now, etc. And if want to send direct feedback to us, use this command:

Hey Google, talk to Turn Off the Lights Support to send feedback

Now you can say everything you want, and we will receive your message in a text. However, we cannot reply to your personal message. But if you want to get a reply from us, then you can provide us with your email address in your audio message.

We take privacy very seriously, and we do not collect any personal information unless you provide it to us (such as an email). This Google Assistant app does not need you to sign in on our website.

Give the ‘Turn Off the Lights Support’ a try today:

https://assistant.google.com/services/a/id/29df1c52a18ae94d/ (deprecated on 31 June 2023)
Available on Google Home, Android 6.0+ phones, and iOS 9.0+ phones

Stefan Van Damme

Cool Enhanced Cinema Mode for YouTube with one-click (#1 Tool)

Tomorrow, start in Europe the big summer vacation (months of July and August) for all children, students, and also the teachers. The time to relax and enjoy your vacation with no stress of the practicals and exams. And it is now the time to get your feet up on your couch and enjoy a great movie. That by a comedy, romantic, or action movie such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No TalesThe MummyTransformers: The Last Knight, and Baywatch.

Cinema Mode for YouTube

However, to get a good Cinema Mode for YouTube. You will need a way to get the most elements to show up automatically when you click on a button. That is all about what this new feature can do for you. This feature makes it possible to dim the web page and enable the Atmosphere Lighting feature (only on a playing HTML5 video).

YouTube video about how to enable the Atmosphere Lighting Vivid Mode

To use this feature, make sure you have the latest Turn Off the Lights Browser extension installed on your favorite web browser. And you must enable this option on the Turn Off the Lights Options page. See in the ‘Visual Effects’ tab, you will find this checkbox below.

Enhanced Cinema Mode for YouTube with one-click
Vivid options to get the Enhanced Cinema Mode for YouTube with one-click

When this feature is enabled, the Atmosphere Lighting effects will only work when these requirements are met:

  • There is an HTML5 video available on the web page
  • The current video is playing in your web browser
  • And you dim the web page

Now if you click on the gray lamp button or by pressing the key ctrl+shift+L, it dims this page. With the beautiful glow of the video player. If you do the light back on, then the glow effect around the video will be also removed.

Download the latest Turn Off the Lights browser extension. And give this one-click Cinema Mode for YouTube option a try.

We are here to help you

The browser extension is built up for users like you. And if you find something annoying, or something does not work well on your web browser. Do not hesitate to contact us by email on this support form.

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Stefan Van Damme

HTML5 video playback that Speed up YouTube videos

A new month, and a new way gets your video experience even better. Now in the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension v3.4.11.0 you can speed up or slow down the HTML5 videos. Such as on YouTube, vimeo, Dailymotion etc.

HTML5 Video playback

HTML5 video playback

When you add the toolbar for video playback control, you see the following speeds: -2 -1.5 -1.25 -1 -0.75 -0.5 -0.25 0 +0.25 +0.5 +0.75 +1 +1.25 +1.5 +2

Default is this feature disabled. But when you enable the HTML5 video playback from the Turn Off the Lights Options page. The new toolbar is only visible when you move your mouse inside the video content. This is designed to get you best video experience and you can see the video action again in slooowww motttioonnn. Or just to speed up the Baywatch “SlowMo Marathon” video in Los Angeles.

In addition to change manually the speed of that video player. There is also an option to set the default speed for all the HTML5 videos in the Options page.

We appreciate all the user feedback very much. It is thanks to you, that makes this online experience more better and comfortable. If you like this feature, please don’t forget to share this news with your friends. Rate this extension to 5 stars. And if you can make a donation we appreciate it very much.

Stefan Van Damme