Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart
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To the surprise of exactly no one.
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/09/26/hue/
If you've gotten into the home automation thing in the past few years, it's possible you set up some Philips Hue devices along the way.
This was an ecosystem which had a bunch of bulbs, switches, outlets and a hub that spoke Zigbee on one side and Ethernet on the other. It was pretty much no-nonsense, and just sat there and worked.
Unfortunately, the idiot C-suite phenomenon has happened here too, and they have been slowly walking down the road to full-on enshittification.
Rule #27(b)
Avoid anything with a retarded name like "Zigbee".
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Zigbee isn't the problem here, it's Philips Hue. Anyone even slightly into smart home stuff knows to avoid Philips Hue.
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me of seven eight years ago would have loved to know that Philips Hue would be shit.....
i havent had much issues, but i have a bulb that's failing and it's like.... i ocould get one new hue bulb and everyhting continues to work as is..... or i get a bunch of new lights to convert to a new, hopefully better for longer system..... but that's money and effort.... but the longer i procrastinate it's more money and more effort.....
decisions.... decisions....
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@accalia said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
me of seven eight years ago would have loved to know that Philips Hue would be shit.....
i havent had much issues, but i have a bulb that's failing and it's like.... i ocould get one new hue bulb and everyhting continues to work as is..... or i get a bunch of new lights to convert to a new, hopefully better for longer system..... but that's money and effort.... but the longer i procrastinate it's more money and more effort.....
decisions.... decisions....
Better to just buy the new hue bulb and use the money you saved on not-pants.
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@izzion said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
not-pants.
i do like wearing not-pants.......
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@accalia said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
me of seven eight years ago would have loved to know that Philips Hue would be shit.....
i havent had much issues, but i have a bulb that's failing and it's like.... i ocould get one new hue bulb and everyhting continues to work as is..... or i get a bunch of new lights to convert to a new, hopefully better for longer system..... but that's money and effort.... but the longer i procrastinate it's more money and more effort.....
decisions.... decisions....
I was scared out of buying into the Phillips ecosystem by two things, one of which was this topic, which is almost that old.
The other is I'd sound like a crazy person when I pronounced is as Who-Eh, like the city in Vietnam, which I would do accidentally all the time.
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@accalia said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@izzion said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
not-pants.
i do like wearing not-pants.......
As long as it's knot panties in a not …
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@loopback0 said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
Zigbee isn't the problem here
I know absolutely nothing about Zigbee other than it is a really stupid name, and I make it a general practice to avoid things with stupid names (as much as possible).
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
I make it a general practice to avoid things with stupid names (as much as possible).
So I take it you never got into web development.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@loopback0 said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
Zigbee isn't the problem here
I know absolutely nothing about Zigbee other than it is a really stupid name, and I make it a general practice to avoid things with stupid names (as much as possible).
You're sitting there with a dead rodent in your hand watching pretty pictures delivered to a windhole in your admonisher by a waiter in the so-called "web" named "you tube" using a program named "trip" (or like some kind of Himalayan skunk) that you started from some mollusk or taco or other after your machine has supposedly pulled itself up by some nonexistent bootstraps. And you don't like stupid names.
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@LaoC said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
And you don't like stupid names.
That's why all my functions start out being called Dave, Steve or Bruce.
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@dkf said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@LaoC said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
And you don't like stupid names.
That's why all my functions start out being called Dave, Steve or Bruce.
Bruce is good. Avoids confusion.
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@LaoC said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
You're sitting there with a dead rodent in your hand watching pretty pictures delivered to a windhole in your admonisher by a waiter in the so-called "web" named "you tube" using a program named "trip" (or like some kind of Himalayan skunk) that you started from some mollusk or taco or other after your machine has supposedly pulled itself up by some nonexistent bootstraps.
I was never any good at these Voight-Kampf tests.
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@LaoC said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@loopback0 said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
Zigbee isn't the problem here
I know absolutely nothing about Zigbee other than it is a really stupid name, and I make it a general practice to avoid things with stupid names (as much as possible).
You're sitting there with a dead rodent in your hand watching pretty pictures delivered to a windhole in your admonisher by a waiter in the so-called "web" named "you tube" using a program named "trip" (or like some kind of Himalayan skunk) that you started from some mollusk or taco or other after your machine has supposedly pulled itself up by some nonexistent bootstraps. And you don't like stupid names.
(as much as possible)
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@Gern_Blaanston said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@LaoC said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
@loopback0 said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
Zigbee isn't the problem here
I know absolutely nothing about Zigbee other than it is a really stupid name, and I make it a general practice to avoid things with stupid names (as much as possible).
You're sitting there with a dead rodent in your hand watching pretty pictures delivered to a windhole in your admonisher by a waiter in the so-called "web" named "you tube" using a program named "trip" (or like some kind of Himalayan skunk) that you started from some mollusk or taco or other after your machine has supposedly pulled itself up by some nonexistent bootstraps. And you don't like stupid names.
(as much as possible)
Like swimming in a sewer and saying you made it a general practice to avoid shit (as much as possible)
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@LaoC said in Apparently, smart light bulbs aren't so smart:
Bruce is good.
Australia heaves a sigh of relief.
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@dkf especially the philosophy department at Woolamaloo.
