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  • Image123toImageProgrammer Humortech never works for long
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    11 days ago

    The ones I had you could do it over the air, but some do require access to the pins. Even with soldering experience it is not approachable as bulbs are not packaged to be opened, it is part of why I check for offline or flash compatibility before buying as even the same “model” could have different hardware revisions. No info = avoid.


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    12 days ago

    Unless you live near doug ford apparently. Bike lane makes his commute from the suburbs longer? Gotta go, even when there is a video of him saying how nice and safe he felt on this bike lanes or something along those lines.

    He and his brother seem like the most self centered jerks from here where we have plenty of similar ones to compare. Also he “needs” a private plane to travel. Dumbassess leading the charge on every country it seems.


  • Image123toImageProgrammer Humortech never works for long
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    12 days ago

    As an alternative, we have found bulbs that can run tasmota with the MQTT integration to be perhaps the most reliable part of our smart home (as long as the hardware already had a descent CRI). I’ve heard good things about ESP home too, but we have not tried it.

    If someone has some light bulbs that are laggy (due to cloud integrations) or a pain to use due to software, its worth checking out of tasmota or esp home can be installed on them to locally pair with something like home assistant. It turned a regretful purchase into a nice addition.

    With that said, we don’t buy connected devices any longer without checking internet and cloud requirements first.