I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease

[tom@tomkahe.com]

@db I had a smart bulb in my apartment that needed to turn off and on in rapid succession 10 times in order to enter pairing mode. The knob on the lamp swapped between 3 settings (off, low, on) so turning off and on wasn't fast enough via that method. And it wasn't connected to a light switch, which meant I had to repeatedly pull the plug out of the outlet and jam it back in to get it to work

[kkarhan@c.im]

@db and now you know why I keep my home "stupid"…

[sirmars@mastodon.social]

@BorrisInABox @db Well that something I'd never thought I'd hear anyone say this morning.

[bascule@mas.to]

@db flashbacks to “The lightswitch has netcat”

[michielw@mastodon.social]

@db I think getting WiFi-based smart devices is the mistake.

[freja@freja.zone]

@db i enjoy having smart home, but i think devices like thermometers and lightbulbs etc should never be on a computer network, with stuff like IP and DHCP and whatever. zigbee and whatever sounds a lot more reasonable to me, and perhaps optionally a little dongle for a computer to be able to talk to them

[lotte@is.luna.love]

@db I hate how everything nowadays has an app and needs you to make an account and be permanently connected to the Internet. Why do I need to make a dishwasher account? Who thought this was a good idea?

[lumiworx@mastodon.social]

@db

I got in the habit long ago to reserve addresses for every device I know is mine, so I guess without knowing it, I've sidestepped this issue entirely.

Although, I had to reset one light last year to get it to honor an NTP time change. It was on a dusk to dawn setting and somehow got a corrupted local cache and also jumped into a different time zone.

As I typed that, I'm thinking how absurd it is that a light bulb has a damned data cache in the 1st place.

[ralph@fedi.mayer.rocks]

@db leaving the water was a mistake, indeed

[qlp@linh.social]

@d1 @db Insert something about socket connection errors...

[lunareclipse@snug.moe]

@db avoiding reboots of my Ikea KAJPLATS lightbulbs to stop them from trying to pair to anything via Matter over Thread when they are already paired via ZigBee. Fuck the CSA for pushing the Thread standard as The New Great Thing.

[sebastiansolidwork@mastodon.social]

@ralph @db Being on land and not going into a volcano sounds reasonable to me.

[stephanie@thetransagenda.gay]

@db@social.lol I'm sure you already know this, but some GE lamps had an amazing method to perform a factory reset (I think it's been patched in newer firmware, or at least in newer bulbs): https://youtu.be/NiPH9jrWh9g