I have flashed all the bulbs and ceiling lights in my house and they work locally on FOSS firmware now 😉 It is not a big deal. I have very poor soldering skills, and I did this anyway.
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Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 11 months agoHaving to hack even bulbs to avoid being spied on is a new level in dystopia.
mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 11 months ago
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Oh, I could make it worse if you’d like? That tool isn’t made for just the bulbs I got at Costco, it’s made for any device in the Tuya ecosystem. What’s Tuya? They’re a Chinese white-label manufacturer that makes smart devices that other companies can slap their brand on. They’ll throw you together an app too, but all of the API calls go through their infrastructure. Bonus, they also make security cameras that send footage to their servers, and smart locks too. They’re literally everywhere, but I’m in Australia so that’s where I’m basing this list:
And that is, quite literally, only to name a few.
yoz@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Thanks mate.Moving forward I am Not going to buy anything “smart”
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I mean, there are still plenty of ways to have smart things that don’t communicate with the internet. Ikea’s stuff is all zigbee, they don’t have wifi at all. You can get one of their hubs to control from your phone, or they sell remotes with zigbee you can pair directly to control a set of bulbs. They never have to see internet at all.