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1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:41:09 JST muesli

   Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud:

   https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:41:08 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • m0xEE
     @m0xee @fribbledom when on vacation having lights turning on and off gives the impression you are home which may dissuade burglars. I have used timers in the past for this purpose.
   • m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:41:09 JST m0xEE

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     @fribbledom
     > you get the ability to control your lights while away from home using their mobile app
     Is it only me who finds this funny? Why would I want to control lights away from home, to give my cats a scare? 🤪
     I mean, you might have cameras installed which might be not infrared and in this case you might want to control lights too, but it seems to me to be a very narrow corner case.

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:42:58 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • M
     @mahmoudhossam @fribbledom i wamt to try and make my own bulbs. You can buy the casing and led ring on aliexpress and put an esp inside with wled
   • M (mahmoudhossam@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:43:11 JST M

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     @fribbledom well, are there any privacy respecting light bulbs that don't suck?

     I tried my luck with ikea's tradfri before and they were so unreliable that I was forced to buy Phillips Hue.

   • Baggypants (baggypants@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:43:19 JST Baggypants

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     • m0xEE

     @m0xee @fribbledom You've never accidentally left the lights on and gone on holiday? You don't have children who seem to think lights are free? You don't work awkward shift patterns? You're just lacking imagination.

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   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:45:08 JST muesli

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     • M

     @mahmoudhossam

     A Raspberry Pi with a USB dongle will do the job just fine. Everything else is just that in a (more or less) fancy plastic case.

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:45:08 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • M
     @fribbledom @mahmoudhossam esp32 is cheaper, smaller, and just as capable of turning lights in and off.
   • M (mahmoudhossam@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:45:09 JST M

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     @fribbledom yeah, the recommended one seems to be a USB dongle which I don't really like, I'll probably look for something that doesn't require a separate,always-on computer to operate.

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 19:45:10 JST muesli

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     • M

     @mahmoudhossam

     The bulbs are actually fine, they're just ZigBee devices. The hub is the problem and the device you'll have to replace with another ZigBee controller.

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 20:11:13 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • m0xEE
     @m0xee @fribbledom yeah RadioShack actually sold a bunch of home automation stuff like that named x10 iirc. It won't fool people for long but if you are gone less than a week it may be good enough.
   • m0xEE (m0xee@social.librem.one)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 20:11:14 JST m0xEE

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     @thatguyoverthere @fribbledom
     I've seen wall switches with such a mode decades ago: it just turned the lights on once in a few hours for random period of time. Neat trick, but I think they are aware of this already and if they have spotters, those probably pay more attention to actual people coming and going than lights, and if they are amateurs — it probably won't stop them anyway 😄