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Fun story: "prise" or "prize" are more common in the UK, "pry" is more common in the US. I do wonder what those from other countries where other spellings are more common think when us Americans come in and correct them, as if our spelling is objectively more correct...
Prise is used in the UK. Anyone spelling it Prize would be told to stop Americanising their spelling.
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Fun story: "prise" or "prize" are more common in the UK, "pry" is more common in the US. I do wonder what those from other countries where other spellings are more common think when us Americans come in and correct them, as if our spelling is objectively more correct...
It's not "as if our spelling is objectively more correct" rather the fact that most people in the US probably have no idea that "prise"/"prize" is used in place of "pry" in the UK. I know I sure didn't.
I think it's interesting the sorts of things where we assume we know how something's said or done and then it turns out that's not a universal thing. On the one hand, best not to assume if one can help it. On the other hand, it's impractical to for example look up every word for cultural context before using it/voicing something based on an assumption around it.
I have found Hue to be a rare example of how IoT can be good, they have a pretty open platform using the bridge and api, with good quality if a little pricey product. Be great if hue made a devkit for the kind of projects in the post.
They are pretty convenient for the owners. It would be sort of nice if the hub would provide a convenient website. Visitors don’t want to use an app to turn on my lightbulbs. There are button peripherals, which work fine of course, but then it is not much more convenient than a light switch or a remote.
In theory you could get a Pi to host a website that talks to the Hue hub's REST API. Actually, I'd be surprised if such a thing doesn't exist on GitHub, but it could be a hunt to find one with has a more than decent UI.
I have about 10 hue bulbs throughout my apartment, which I've only purchased on Black Friday sales (they tend to go up to 50% off, I've found, which puts them more in line to what I feel is a reasonable price.) My biggest gripe is the unserious development of their iOS app, which has really been a hurdle to get them setup correctly. The app underwent a rebuild maybe 18 month ago, which forced users to allow for phone…
I got a chill of terror when I saw this at #1 on the front page, thinking it was the other meaning of "hack" and that it was some massive vulnerability that is going to ruin my morning while I take my bridge and bulbs offline and make me regret ever buying into it. I know this is Hacker News, but the classic hackers lost that linguistic battle or at least achieved stalemate decades ago. If you're going to use the wor…
I'm barely an expert with embedded/EE, more like an engineer with 5 years experience in the field. If there is anything that is extremely basic, its LEDs.
I was wondering if they were going to be able to figure out how to send bits through wifi to control the light without any auth.
Nope, they rewired the board to external LEDs.
I should feel like a genius after seeing someone put the time into this, and HN upvoted it. Instead I'm a bit disappointed.
I have found Hue to be a rare example of how IoT can be good, they have a pretty open platform using the bridge and api, with good quality if a little pricey product. Be great if hue made a devkit for the kind of projects in the post.
I have about 10 hue bulbs throughout my apartment, which I've only purchased on Black Friday sales (they tend to go up to 50% off, I've found, which puts them more in line to what I feel is a reasonable price.) My biggest gripe is the unserious development of their iOS app, which has really been a hurdle to get them setup correctly. The app underwent a rebuild maybe 18 month ago, which forced users to allow for phone…
If you add all your bulbs to Homekit you can control them all from there. I have all my Hue bulbs in Homekit and haven't touched the Hue app for years, it's also accessible from the iOS Control Center.
Three fiberglass circuit boards, one aluminum LED circut board, plastic covers and coatings, epoxies and coating compounds, capacitors, chips and transistors with heavy metals, at least 100 unique components, aluminum heatsink housing... That'll only sit in a landfill for 10,000 years or so and took materials from all around the world to create. Remember when lightbulbs were thin glass with a bit of wire? At least th…
LED light bulb might be less ecological but having to produce 40x as much (including packing, shipping, storing etc) incandescent on top of higher energy production required ought to compensate enough for that.
But if random LEDs customers buy burn out after few years for bad design reasons that's not great...
When I say "Hey Google, turn off all the lights" and it says "Okay, turning 55 lights off" I always recoil. No significant regrets, though. The app was awful a few years ago but they took the feedback in stride and made something responsive and usable (lots of headroom for improvement but I can't overstate how bad the app was on launch).
I got a chill of terror when I saw this at #1 on the front page, thinking it was the other meaning of "hack" and that it was some massive vulnerability that is going to ruin my morning while I take my bridge and bulbs offline and make me regret ever buying into it. I know this is Hacker News, but the classic hackers lost that linguistic battle or at least achieved stalemate decades ago. If you're going to use the wor…
more than a decade ago the running joke in our house was to set the bathroom light to bright red just as someone had snuck off to take a shit. not a hack but still, hilarious. got even funnier at house parties where people on various psychedelics did not know what had just happened.
Oh that is just devious.