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> The reset procedure works better when the bulb is white rather than color. So it doesn't just work or not, it works better .
What. One would think that a reset procedure is binary, it either works or it doesn't...
Here the reset procedure for Awox color light bulbs: 1. If possible, put your bulb in white (hot or cold no matter ...). The reset procedure works better when the bulb is white rather than color. 2. In the steps below, the power is turned off. It is not ON / OFF done using the remote control or the application, but electrical ON / OFF. 3. Your light bulb is off. This is the beginning of the procedure. 4. Turn it on b…
> The reset procedure works better when the bulb is white rather than color. So it doesn't just work or not, it works better .
This is why I don't buy the "IoT smart home" future. There's no such thing as a "smart" device that doesn't typically break within 4-5 years. Dozens of such devices in a house means you'd be dealing with a broken device every few months, which is my nightmare. I want the LEAST amount of complexity possible to control all my critical living functions, from fridges to windows to lights to cars.
If Apple had done this light bulb you’d have to buy a $70 “resetter” device, that would do the on/off cycling for you. If Facebook had made the light bulb, you’d have to unfriend the lightbulb for it to reset. If Google had made the lightbulb, well the reset function would be discontinued. If Microsoft had made the lightbulb, you’d need to call your active directory admin to perform the reset.
>If Facebook had made the light bulb, you’d have to unfriend the lightbulb for it to reset. The funny thing is, I can see IoT enabled devices using social media accounts as an interface. You would be required to follow your appliances on Facebook or Twitter or whatever and your refrigerator would PM you when you were low on juice or something.
I remember a time when we were promised smart fridges that would be able to give the user a live inventory and even automatically reorder food when items were running low. Instead we got "smart" light bulbs that give you an epileptic fit when they inevitably stop working and need to be factory reset.
What a time to be alive!
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The fact that there is a logical chain of engineering considerations that got us to this point I take as granted (yes, the article thinks it could have been done better but, as you point out, there are safety problems). But our world is becoming more and more like a Doglas Adams novel - I seem to remember in one of the H2G2 books that they considered their civilisation so advanced that they did away with TV remotes,…
I kind of do that to Spotify - I have to listen to tracks I don't necessarily like so that their suggestion mechanism would stop pushing me the same stuff I had already listened to. PS: That being said, I would still listen to stuff I don't like to discover something, but that's beyond the point - wasn't automation supposed to make our lives better in some way? :)
We used to have a great solution for this: disk jockeys. Some stations still do employ them as actual curators of music, not just a pleasing voice over the Clear Channel Top 40 feed.
The problems of today are strange.
This is why I don't buy the "IoT smart home" future. There's no such thing as a "smart" device that doesn't typically break within 4-5 years. Dozens of such devices in a house means you'd be dealing with a broken device every few months, which is my nightmare. I want the LEAST amount of complexity possible to control all my critical living functions, from fridges to windows to lights to cars.
I decided to give away my "smart" door lock and test setup of "smart" light bulbs. I have better things to do than pretending to be tech helpdesk for mye house/family for things that aren't really giving me much benefit. The door lock had some nice features, but I had no secondary way of entering the house without breaking something so I decided it was too high risc. The Philips HUE lightbulbs are not capable of reme…
That is indeed the default behavior, but they can recall the previous state or another setting altogether after losing power. See “Power-on behavior” under Settings in the app.
or even simpler: just unscrew and rescrew the lightbulb to reset!
if the device is raddio (bluetooth) controlled, wouldnt it be more sane to reset through the bluetooth device? perhaps a unique serial number on the bulb (verifies access to the bulb), and/or a bulb generated string of random bits (on/off), so the user enters for say 10 cycles if the bulb is on or off (prevents replay attacks)? ok, you should close the window blinds. or even simpler: just unscrew and rescrew the ligh…
No, because you might be resetting because you can't connect with the bluetooth device.
> or even simpler: just unscrew and rescrew the lightbulb to reset!
How does the light bulb know it's unscrewed? How is that different from turning the switch off?
I have a story on point. My brother is a manager at a company which installs electrical and HVAC systems, working mostly with very high-end private homes. They had this couple as clients, both very fancy architects, who designed their new home to be completely computer-controlled, from window shutters to air conditioners to lights, without any physical switches (I guess there was a remote and sensors or something). T…