The future is stupid

Chester Copperpot

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Smart light bulbs? Reset procedure?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/20/ge_lightblulb_reset/

Being an early adopter can be a frustrating experience as kinks are ironed out, bugs are squashed, and interfaces are improved. It comes with the territory. However, there is simply no excuse for what General Electric (GE) has done to users of its smart light bulbs.

Called, bafflingly, C by GE, these Bluetooth, Alexa, and Google Assistant-compliant LED products have it all. They allow for "smarter lighting in every way," says GE: put them on a schedule; change the ambiance in real time; control them with your voice while, um, carrying your dog.

There's only one minor niggle: how to reset them if you encounter a glitch, or you need to reconfigure them from scratch. For some reason, GE decided not to install a physical reset button – you know, one of those tiny holes that you have to stick a pin or paperclip into. Instead, it programmed the devices to factory reset after being turning on and off in a specific pattern.

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Yaj Yak

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i think my favorite is when people are like hey alexa turn the lights down

but as they were saying something someone else started talking... alexa be like WHAT I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU SAID then person starts yelling at Alexa but spacing words out like that helps

A

LEX

A


TURRRRNNNN

THHEE

(TV at this point has sound happen)

LIIIGHHHTHTHTSSSS

DOWN




SORRYYYY I DIDN'T GET THAT
 

Yaj Yak

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Those light sensitive/clock timer switches that you replace your actual light switch with make infinitely more sense than a fucking "smart" light bulb.

The future is stupid and the Internet of Shit is a security nightmare.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D5YET7I/?tag=tcg21-20


like. why get a smart one :rofl:



thing is internally programmed to know sunrise/sunset based on install location...

BuT A elXEXa CAnT TaLK tO It
 

nytebyte

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Wait... lightbulbs, firmware, reset procedures?? WTF??
It's a fucking LIGHT BULB!!!

I just want to turn it on and off, not spend an hour trying to reset it because it "crashed" due to some buggy computer code!!

What is this world coming to?!?!? Light bulbs don't need to be connected to the Internet.
 

Chet Donnelly

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D5YET7I/?tag=tcg21-20


like. why get a smart one :rofl:



thing is internally programmed to know sunrise/sunset based on install location...

BuT A elXEXa CAnT TaLK tO It

These only work if you have a neutral wire! Ask me how I know!

EDIT: If anyone knows of one of these types of switches that don't require a neutral wire...I'll buy that shit and throw my smart bulbs in the trash.
 

Omicron

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My travel apartment is mostly all smart automated.

Philips Hue on all lights
Alexa smart plugs for non auto devices
Roomba
Wyze cameras

Yea it’s a bit silly at times but it’s nice with all the sleep and wake timers as well as the fact I have extensive remote control / monitor capabilities


The hue system whole house is pretty cool - pretty neat to have full color control.
 

Yaj Yak

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I'd do my front lights with two of those but the front switch panel is a fucking 4 pot switch plate and no one makes a switch-square-square-switch plate. And I'm too lazy to redo that wall and merge the stoop light and the yard light into one switch.

kinda a silly way to do it but if you don't wanna just change the switches out :rofl: it'd work

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https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton...ylon-Wall-Plate-White-905-PSC26-00W/100356948




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https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton...PIPHorizontal2_rr-_-100356948-_-100356877-_-N
 

Yaj Yak

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Wait... lightbulbs, firmware, reset procedures?? WTF??
It's a fucking LIGHT BULB!!!

I just want to turn it on and off, not spend an hour trying to reset it because it "crashed" due to some buggy computer code!!

What is this world coming to?!?!? Light bulbs don't need to be connected to the Internet.

OVER ENGINEER, OVER COMPLICATE, ALL THE THINNNGGSSS!1111!!
 
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