In principle, it seems good to separate the motion sensing bits from the glowy bits. These turn any bulb into a motion-sensing bulb. After sensing motion, the bulb actives for a while. Put them into any light figure and then leave it on. And if you want dimming or changing colors, this seems to be the only midwit option. The remote talks directly to the light bulbs with no WiFi. (It’s futile to start with low-quality photons and then try to arrange matter to make them look good.) And if you have multiple bulbs and one remote, what do you do when one bulb breaks?īut they do exist. Personally, I’d never buy these, because I’m fanatical about color quality. Less versatile, but work with built-in light fixtures. These are the same as the above, except they work on light sockets rather than outlets. Now I use one of these cubes and remotely power cycle it when necessary. So for a year, I’d walk to the room with the printer and reach deep inside the cabinet to physically unplug and re-plug it. But it has one of those infuriating power buttons where you hold it for ten seconds and then it ignores you. I could get a new printer, but maybe it’s a network issue or something? I know this shouldn’t be possible, but I’ve exhausted every avenue for fixing it. After being on for a few days it refuses to print anything longer than two pages. Activate the remote a few minutes ahead of time and make tea in a single trip with no waiting. With this remote you can leave the kettle in a “ready” state: filled with water, kettle on, outlet off. Then, because it takes an eternity for water to boil, I go back to my desk to wait. My usual process for making tea is to walk to the kitchen and start the kettle. Or put lights in rooms around the house all paired to one button, and strobe them when you want everyone to gather for dinner. Or, you can use this as a signal-put a light in the basement for grandma to activate if she needs you. Or, you can use this as a remote for a dumb window-unit air conditioner. They’re also great for fans, air purifiers, and humidifiers. When your roommate complains about you strobing them (it’s irresistible) remind them that LED bulbs’ lifespans are not shortened by on/off cycles. (Cost: Around $25 for five plugs and two remotes.) One button can control multiple plugs and the same plug can be paired to multiple remotes. The buttons work instantly, with a range of 30 m (100 ft) even through walls. Plug stuff into the cubes, plug the cubes into the wall, and use the remote to control which cubes are active. These are probably the easiest win for most people. They wouldn’t be very useful anyway since most of this stuff is sold by brands like ELFPUFF that disappear after two weeks. So no links here, affiliate or otherwise. I have “no club that would have me” relationship with links for things you can buy: They’re convenient, but it’s hard to be sure of the motivations of anyone who provides them. What if you try to achieve the goals of a smart home, but you rule out anything that involves getting two computers to talk to each other? So apps, phones, and hubs are out. Smart homes should be better, but in practice the cost of administering a new home IT nightmare outweighs the benefits.īut perhaps there’s a third way. Dumb homes are fine, but require flipping switches. You dream of a giant planetary light switch, glowing in brutal simplicity. Easier to just make a custom Hellfire demarkation loop.Įventually you admit you’ve already suffered more than a lifetime of flipping switches and go to bed, mournful of your four lost hours of reading. MongoChopper only works in reticulated mode, which newer Qetzl hubs don’t support. After matroid paring, you can connect xmpf12 beacons and trigger them with plain-old SkyDust switches. Just get a Qetzl hub, a OTOROXv3.2 bridge, and any MongoChopper compatible bulbs. In desperation you go to a smart home forum and make a post titled “smart lights no agony please help dear god”. This reveals a recursive landscape of terror: (Something about subscription fees and invasive apps and forced obsolescence?) So you search for “how to get a Home Assistant”. The hell? But people seem to think that Home Assistant is good. Hauling your body across the room just to flip a switch is absurd. Reading a book one night, you decide to turn on the lights.
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