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why the hell are smart bulbs still so expensive? i figured their price would have come down by now
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cause they're smart
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Feb 6, 2018 16:43
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they're not tho? i mean those ones are but ikea sells 'em and they're cheap as heck
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Feb 6, 2018 16:43
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infernal machines posted:they're not tho? i mean those ones are but ikea sells 'em and they're cheap as heck Do you mean LED bulbs, or does Ikea sell "beep boop connect my lovely lightbulb to WiFi for app" now?
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Feb 6, 2018 16:50
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http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/categories/departments/lighting/36812/
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Feb 6, 2018 16:52
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mrmcd posted:Do you mean LED bulbs, or does Ikea sell "beep boop connect my lovely lightbulb to WiFi for app" now? https://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/90353361/
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Feb 6, 2018 16:55
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Oh, huh. Well at least one review suggests they might be typical Ikea garbage so maybe that explains the reduced cost.
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Feb 6, 2018 16:58
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so not actually connect-to-wifi "smart" lights just lights with dinky 433mhz receivers in them, which explains why they're super cheap
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Feb 6, 2018 16:59
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not that i actually want each individual loving lightbulb i own to individually connect to my fuckin' wifi network though, so w/e
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Feb 6, 2018 17:00
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433mhz should get better range than WiFi though at least in regions where that’s an ism band you can use power with...
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Feb 6, 2018 17:01
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you'd think light bulbs of all things would use powerline networking
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hobbesmaster posted:433mhz should get better range than WiFi though in my experience the reliability of the whole thing (especially over distance) super heavily depends on the modulation its using, a lot of them basically just hook up an IR remote control chip to a 433mhz crystal via an RF transistor and that seems particularly fragile in my testing source: i reverse engineered a bunch of RF remote control switches so I could control them from my own transmitter
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Feb 6, 2018 17:03
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"connects to wi-fi" *using only our app **which needs your contacts list for some reason
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Feb 6, 2018 17:05
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ate all the Oreos posted:in my experience the reliability of the whole thing (especially over distance) super heavily depends on the modulation its using, a lot of them basically just hook up an IR remote control chip to a 433mhz crystal via an RF transistor and that seems particularly fragile in my testing makes sense considering I’m used to sub ghz radios that almost cost the same as the entire light bulb
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Feb 6, 2018 17:06
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idiots buy smart bulbs, the savvy tech household buys smart switches instead
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Feb 6, 2018 17:08
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Rex-Goliath posted:why the hell are smart bulbs still so expensive? i figured their price would have come down by now because fools will still pay a premium for it
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Feb 6, 2018 17:09
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Ikea led bulbs are so epically poo poo. They're all like one narrow spike of red/orange or blue light. Can't take decent photos and they make you look like a weird monster.
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Feb 6, 2018 17:10
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hobbesmaster posted:makes sense considering I’m used to sub ghz radios that almost cost the same as the entire light bulb i was using a CC1101 to transmit at one point and was having a big problem in that as far as i can tell it seemed to be tuned too accurately and the switch I was trying to control needed the giant messy spread out garbage frequencies of the original lovely remote, cuz i could look at it on an SDR and see they were both transmitting smack dab on the same center frequency but mine was a pretty narrow well-controlled transmission and the original remote was like "lol hope you're not using anything within +-2MHz of this cuz that's mine now  "
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Feb 6, 2018 17:11
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the only bulb with a shred of intelligence that appeals to me is the philips one that is dimmer compatible and switches from daylight to like 4000k white at lower power levels
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Feb 6, 2018 17:14
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ate all the Oreos posted:https://twitter.com/scottbudman/status/960658293906579456 whoa that's so much money they must be poor now right
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Feb 6, 2018 17:28
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i have all of that money they lost because i shorted the entire stock market i put all of it into bitcoin.
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Feb 6, 2018 17:30
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more like poopertino lmao
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Feb 6, 2018 17:39
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ate all the Oreos posted:https://twitter.com/scottbudman/status/960658293906579456 is this supposed to make me feel bad for them or should i be laughing not really getting either tbh
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Feb 6, 2018 17:40
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Cat Face Joe posted:more like poopertino lmao more like chinartino these days lol
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Feb 6, 2018 17:43
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Cat Face Joe posted:is this supposed to make me feel bad for them or should i be laughing You're supposed to secrete extra dopamine.
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Feb 6, 2018 17:44
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wide stance posted:You're supposed to secrete extra dopamine. is that supposed to fill me with murderous intent cause that's what im feeling now
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Feb 6, 2018 17:46
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:more like chinartino these days lol 
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Feb 6, 2018 17:46
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the wayward province of cupertino has always been a part of china
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the wayward province of cupertino has always been a part of china cupertizhou
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ate all the Oreos posted:https://twitter.com/scottbudman/status/960658293906579456 "A good start"
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:more like chinartino these days lol "these days" lol
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i graduated from cupertino high more than 10 years ago and let me tell you...
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Feb 6, 2018 18:44
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uber doubles down on heli-taxis, bell obliges
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Feb 6, 2018 18:44
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my bitter bi rival posted:i graduated from cupertino high more than 10 years ago and let me tell you... assuming trump actually gets it up and running, the next census results there should be hilarious
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Feb 6, 2018 18:53
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ha ha that sure is a funny joke app someone made as a funny joke for joke times 
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Feb 6, 2018 18:53
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when i try to use that it just deletes my facebook
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Feb 6, 2018 18:54
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report parasite get priority in food line all comrades must work together
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Feb 6, 2018 18:56
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crabrock posted:when i try to use that it just deletes my facebook
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haveblue posted:you'd think light bulbs of all things would use powerline networking powerline modems are relatively expensive and complex to embed compared to a zig bee radio or some other poo poo
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