This is why I love my smart bulbs. Fuck the switch; I can turn them off from my phone.
getting up to grab my phone from across the room where I keep it so I don’t doomscroll in bed
because I forgot to turn off the smart bulbs that are also controlled by the switch on the other side of the room
I need a modern clapper
A matter of time before someone invents a clapper allowing you to doomscroll from across the room.
it’s seriously baffling to me that we don’t have something between a clapper an full voice control, surely it should be utterly trivial to recognize different patterns of a loud sound?
I want to enable party mode for my lights by clapping out “shave and a haircut”
Sounds like you need two separate phones dedicated for each specific task.
I have two switches. One on the wall by the door, and one on the floor side table.
Because of the exact same situation.
I have gotten so used to this it’s going to be tough when I inevitably excise Alexa from my life due to surveillance capitalism.
I use some not-as-smart smart bulbs that allow me to use all sorts of FOSS alternatives to control them which I only lucked out into getting since I was planning on getting Philips Hue, but these that I got (Wiz iirc; I don’t use the official software so I am not constsntly reminded of the brand) were half as expensive so I was able to get more of 'em.
the funny thing is that Wiz is also a philips brand, so it’s basically philips hue but less shit.
For the record i do use the official software because i’m poor enough that setting up homeassistant is out of reach, and it’s remarkably okay. It actually works without internet, so long as you sign in with a third party account (which is moronic and i don’t like it at all, but whatever).
Also, you can set up scheduled actions to automatically dim them or turn them off if you happen to pass out
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I have a lot of issues with my LIFX smart bulbs. Once a week when I click on/off in the app, it won’t do anything. And that’ll usually last until I physically turn the wall light switch off/on to reset it. Not sure if this is a typical smart bulb thing/a LIFX thing.
There are people who walk among us, people who can vote, and procreate, who will willingly sit in a room with just The Big Light on. It chills my blood to think about.
You’re telling me there is a giant orb in the sky that you are not allowed to make direct eye contact with and you don’t question that?
Home Assistant with smart bulb and a voice preview. Stay warm and cosy.
And that’s why mine are on their own VLAN with their own SSID. My TV and my phone are still spying on me though.
Here is a link to the tool that video uses. This isn’t a case of someone compromising an existing smart bulb to do sketchy things, but rather someone installing this bulb covertly in your house and using it for penetration testing. the same could be accomplished by an arduino in the bushes or a guy with a white van out front.
Also most smart bulbs use zigbee or zwave not wifi. The hub could be hacked i guess, but I have mine setup to only be accessible on the local network.
My new monitor has a flashing light when the pc is off… Last night I got few up and put black nail polish over the LED. Fuck off light
My bedside wireless charger has a piercing bright blue light on the front. That was covered by a small bit of black electrical tape on the first night.
Which sadist designs this shit?
GE sells LED bulbs that come with a remote, nothing smart about them, I can dim them or turn them off entirely with the remote that lives on my bedside table.
If you get a Zigbee smart switch (or smart bulb) and a Zigbee remote, you can pair the switch/bulb and remote directly so it works like you said, while still retaining the ability to control the light using Home Assistant (eg automatically turn it on or off based on something).
I have a Zigbee controller coming at some point this week, so I can set up a bunch of Zigbee sensors and products that a friend of mine no longer needs. Proper looking forward to seeing what I can do with it all in Home Assistant.
This is the only reason I have smart home appliances
Hard mode: just sleep with the lights on.
Sleep maxing.
Sleep mask plus earphones that are specifically designed for sleeping (white noise, soft, low profile against pillow).
Optimizing your way out of being able to sleep without aid (I do it too).
Do you guys not have light switches next to your bed?
Most rooms I’ve seen have the light switch right next the door, most bedrooms don’t also keep their bed right next to the door. I’m assuming most people also don’t want to run wire through the walls wherever they’re renting/living.
Most bedrooms I have seen have multiple light switches wiht one of them being next to the bed most of the time.
not once in my life do i recall seeing this, having been in countless bedrooms
Dunno guess it’s a local/european thing?
Makes sense, as I live in the americas
yeah we don’t tend to have logical home choices like that over here in Canada
we also like to design bathrooms in such a way that the sink is immediately in front of the opening door, which means you’re not allowed to put the light switch adjacent to the door knob of the closed door position where it would be really convenient and intuitive, which means it’s usually awkwardly beyond the door knob in the open door position, because we never have light switches outside of the room they control
Oh we have light switches for bathrooms outside the room for some reason. You’ve not lived until one of your siblings turns off the light while you are showering.
I go to sleep drunk a lot. I forget to turn off lights. My partner calls me out for it. I have not shame.
For the lights or being drunk s lot?
