<![CDATA[I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease]]>I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease

smart home was a mistake

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/8af33930-aabc-4e88-87be-f5254a09227d/i-m-literally-unscrewing-lightbulbs-to-renew-their-dhcp-leaseRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 04:25:25 GMTMon, 04 May 2026 13:36:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 19:41:06 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thetransagenda.gay/notes/alv65pyt7z5g0001https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://thetransagenda.gay/notes/alv65pyt7z5g0001Mon, 04 May 2026 19:41:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:41:19 GMT]]>@ralph @db Being on land and not going into a volcano sounds reasonable to me.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/SebastianSolidwork/statuses/116517062565930708https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/SebastianSolidwork/statuses/116517062565930708Mon, 04 May 2026 15:41:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:33:17 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://snug.moe/notes/aluxb1d1k3qo3o5ghttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://snug.moe/notes/aluxb1d1k3qo3o5gMon, 04 May 2026 15:33:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:31:57 GMT]]>@d1 @db Insert something about socket connection errors... 🙃

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://linh.social/users/qlp/statuses/116517025717052779https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://linh.social/users/qlp/statuses/116517025717052779Mon, 04 May 2026 15:31:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:19:12 GMT]]>@db leaving the water was a mistake, indeed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.mayer.rocks/users/ralph/statuses/01KQSS4V3MD2DBKVDHSK5HSK46https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.mayer.rocks/users/ralph/statuses/01KQSS4V3MD2DBKVDHSK5HSK46Mon, 04 May 2026 15:19:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:09:08 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lumiworx/statuses/116516935981678853https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/lumiworx/statuses/116516935981678853Mon, 04 May 2026 15:09:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:07:29 GMT]]>@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?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is.luna.love/notes/aluwdv21fsrx0h2uhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is.luna.love/notes/aluwdv21fsrx0h2uMon, 04 May 2026 15:07:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:02:47 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freja.zone/users/freja/statuses/116516911052923287https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freja.zone/users/freja/statuses/116516911052923287Mon, 04 May 2026 15:02:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 15:01:41 GMT]]>@db I think getting WiFi-based smart devices is the mistake.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/michielw/statuses/116516906699575390https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/michielw/statuses/116516906699575390Mon, 04 May 2026 15:01:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:55:29 GMT]]>@db flashbacks to “The lightswitch has netcat”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/bascule/statuses/116516882289626030https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/bascule/statuses/116516882289626030Mon, 04 May 2026 14:55:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:54:03 GMT]]>@BorrisInABox @db Well that something I'd never thought I'd hear anyone say this morning.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/SirMars/statuses/116516876690928492https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/SirMars/statuses/116516876690928492Mon, 04 May 2026 14:54:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:52:51 GMT]]>@db and now you know why I keep my home "stupid"…

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116307071344437495/statuses/116516871956822693https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/ap/users/116307071344437495/statuses/116516871956822693Mon, 04 May 2026 14:52:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:49:43 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tomkahe.com/users/tom/statuses/116516859645937008https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tomkahe.com/users/tom/statuses/116516859645937008Mon, 04 May 2026 14:49:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:44:48 GMT]]>@db I've seriously tripped the lighting breaker, waited 30 seconds, and reset the breaker to avoid that exact thing before.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/116516840322802124https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/116516840322802124Mon, 04 May 2026 14:44:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:40:09 GMT]]>@db zigbee is the way

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cuties.social/users/Julia/statuses/116516822038613009https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cuties.social/users/Julia/statuses/116516822038613009Mon, 04 May 2026 14:40:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:38:34 GMT]]>@db LOL! "...how many people does it take to renew a DHCP lease?"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/d1/statuses/116516815781981108https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autistics.life/users/d1/statuses/116516815781981108Mon, 04 May 2026 14:38:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:22:08 GMT]]>@db who the hell got the "bright idea" for this anyway, huh? Huh??? /Silly

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://corteximplant.com/users/violet/statuses/116516751168817604https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://corteximplant.com/users/violet/statuses/116516751168817604Mon, 04 May 2026 14:22:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:19:27 GMT]]>@db what, you didn’t create a separate, isolated 2.4 GHz WiFi network just for your lightbulbs, and assigned them each a static IP? I thought that was basic practice, once you assembled your team of lightbulb installation IT specialists!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://babka.social/users/josh0/statuses/116516740604990350https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://babka.social/users/josh0/statuses/116516740604990350Mon, 04 May 2026 14:19:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 14:18:56 GMT]]>@db Oh my goodness I didn't even realize that was a thing 😅

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.surazal.net/users/zalasur/statuses/116516738580466075https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.surazal.net/users/zalasur/statuses/116516738580466075Mon, 04 May 2026 14:18:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 13:55:29 GMT]]>@heals yeah that's a whole thing...

i wish I'd done relays though, cheaper than wifi bulbs i have

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.lol/users/db/statuses/116516646408654120https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.lol/users/db/statuses/116516646408654120Mon, 04 May 2026 13:55:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease on Mon, 04 May 2026 13:42:24 GMT]]>@db blessed if you still have the old switches wired up and can toggle the power for the bulbs.

(Unless ofc. you're like me and added smart relays to those switches and they need to be power cycled too....)

/cc @jenny753

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indiepocalypse.social/users/heals/statuses/116516594912412224https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indiepocalypse.social/users/heals/statuses/116516594912412224Mon, 04 May 2026 13:42:24 GMT