I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System

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Post by iamflimflam1 » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:24 AM UTC

I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System
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Post by aronpye » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:43 AM UTC

When people have more money than good sense.

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Post by baybal2 » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:49 AM UTC

Worked on a project for Kazakhstani real estate company to make a cheap "smart home" solution.

Went for 100% wired installation exactly because of that.

Second problem was every "star" topology hugely increases wiring cost, so a bus it was, and with bus came a problem of software MAC not being performant enough even to send audio, electrical isolation, CSMA...

Long story

I can't wait for 802.3cg

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Post by kristiandupont » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:49 AM UTC

Off-topic, but

>Quentin Stafford-Fraser (co-inventor of the webcam).

How can you be the inventor of the webcam? What is it even, besides from a digital camera? Did he invent that?

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Post by bryanrasmussen » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:51 AM UTC

kristiandupont wrote: post #4

Off-topic, but >Quentin Stafford-Fraser (co-inventor of the webcam). How can you be the inventor of the webcam? What is it even, besides from a digital camera? Did he invent that?

he has a wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Stafford-Fraser

He was one of the team that created the first webcam: the Trojan room coffee pot: Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the XCoffee client program which allowed the image of the pot to be displayed on a workstation screen. When web browsers gained the ability to display images, the system was modified to make the coffee pot images available over HTTP and thus became the first webcam.

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Post by chris_wot » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:53 AM UTC

I’m rather confused - what exactly is a wireless lighting system? And what are the advantages?

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Post by tgirod » Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 9:54 AM UTC

a few days ago I helped my neighbour install some light fixtures in her house. She was sold some smart lightbulbs with it because you can dim them and change the light color a bit from a remote control. There are 6 or 8 lightbulbs next to each others.

I'm impressed how unreliable this tech is. Standing 2 meters away from the lightbulbs, I had to press 3 or 4 times the off button to turn them all off. I just don't understand why you would knowingly install that kind of crap.