Selfhost Homeassistant, you’re welcome
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Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Alfredo_DisguidoAlCazzo@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Or simply having switches placed not in stupid places XD
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
With a smart home setup, your phone is that button.
Zikeji@programming.dev 1 day ago
Take it a step further with Tasker and your sleep taking app. Lights go off when I start sleep tracking, lights come on with alarm.
nodiratime@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You can do that in HO no problem. No need for proprietary stuff (tasker has really lost it’s charm).
makingrain@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Possible to do from bed as well
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Setting up home assistant from the bed is not very ideal. Sit straight up in a chair, set it up then go to bed.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 22 hours ago
This is why I love my smart bulbs. Fuck the switch; I can turn them off from my phone.
udc@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I have a lot of issues with my LIFX smart bulbs. Once a week when I click on/off in the app, it won’t do anything. And that’ll usually last until I physically turn the wall light switch off/on to reset it. Not sure if this is a typical smart bulb thing/a LIFX thing.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
getting up to grab my phone from across the room where I keep it so I don’t doomscroll in bed
because I forgot to turn off the smart bulbs that are also controlled by the switch on the other side of the room
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
I need a modern clapper
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Sounds like you need two separate phones dedicated for each specific task.
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I have gotten so used to this it’s going to be tough when I inevitably excise Alexa from my life due to surveillance capitalism.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 hours ago
I use some not-as-smart smart bulbs that allow me to use all sorts of FOSS alternatives to control them which I only lucked out into getting since I was planning on getting Philips Hue, but these that I got (Wiz iirc; I don’t use the official software so I am not constsntly reminded of the brand) were half as expensive so I was able to get more of 'em.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Home Assistant is entirely self-hosted. No third-party required. It can run in a container or on a raspberry pi, but it’s typically easiest (and most functional) when you use a dedicated Home Assistant Green. It connects to Zigbee, Matter, etc via USB adapters. Or if your devices are networked (instead of using a hub), it can often find them directly on your network via local device discovery. It integrates with Alexa really well, so you wouldn’t need to immediately ditch your existing smart speakers.
If you really want to get fancy, you can even set up a local machine to do local LLM processing for self-hosted smart speakers.
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Also, you can set up scheduled actions to automatically dim them or turn them off if you happen to pass out
BennyInc@feddit.org 1 day ago
djdarren@piefed.social 18 hours ago
There are people who walk among us, people who can vote, and procreate, who will willingly sit in a room with just The Big Light on. It chills my blood to think about.
Rooster326@programming.dev 16 hours ago
You’re telling me there is a giant orb in the sky that you are not allowed to make direct eye contact with and you don’t question that?
therealbabyshell@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Home Assistant with smart bulb and a voice preview. Stay warm and cosy.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
ebolapie@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
And that’s why mine are on their own VLAN with their own SSID. My TV and my phone are still spying on me though.
saigot@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Here is a link to the tool that video uses. This isn’t a case of someone compromising an existing smart bulb to do sketchy things, but rather someone installing this bulb covertly in your house and using it for penetration testing. the same could be accomplished by an arduino in the bushes or a guy with a white van out front.
Also most smart bulbs use zigbee or zwave not wifi. The hub could be hacked i guess, but I have mine setup to only be accessible on the local network.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
My new monitor has a flashing light when the pc is off… Last night I got few up and put black nail polish over the LED. Fuck off light
djdarren@piefed.social 18 hours ago
My bedside wireless charger has a piercing bright blue light on the front. That was covered by a small bit of black electrical tape on the first night.
Which sadist designs this shit?
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
The funny part is that blue LEDs were historically the hardest to make. Engineers tried for years, but the shorter blue wavelength was elusive. But one Japanese dude managed to figure it out, and they exploded in popularity because they were the new futuristic thing. And now they’re actually one of the cheapest colors available, because every single manufacturer was rushing to jump on the bandwagon and has the equipment to make them. Sort of like the flatscreen TV crash in the early 2010’s, when TV prices suddenly crashed because every manufacturer was getting better and better at making the (historically very expensive) screen panels cheaply.
And to answer the question on why they’re so fucking bright, it’s because blue is a very short wavelength. It takes less power to produce shorter wavelengths. When you compare the relative brightness of two different colored LEDs, shorter wavelengths will be brighter. Like if you send 1 watt of power into two different LEDs, a blue LED will always be brighter than a red one (if everything else about them is the same). That’s why so many of the cheap RGB LED lights tend to be sort of blueish when they’re set to “white”. The “white” is just all of the individual diodes at 100% brightness, which means the blue tends to beat out the other colors.
But the engineers who design those things don’t stop to consider that a blue LED needs less power. They’re just checking the “has a power light” item off of their design punch list. They could undervolt the diode to make it dimmer, but that requires extra circuitry. Just get a diode that works on the same voltage as what you’re already using (probably 5v or 12v for a wall charger) and hook it up to the same voltage that you already have. And use a blue one because they’re the cheapest option. Congrats, you’ve just designed a charger that has a fucking blinding blue LED. The whole “people will want to use this in their bedroom in the dark” thing was never even a consideration.
This is also why red (and infrared) light is better at heating things up. Longer wavelengths carry more energy, which means they heat things up more when they come into contact. The wave takes more power to make, which means it is able to carry more energy to whatever you’re trying to make. Trying to design a blue heat lamp would be an exercise in frustration, because you’d be fighting physics. It’s also why the sky is blue during the day but sunsets are red. The blue light tends to get scattered by air molecules, (which is why the sky looks blue) but red light is able to punch through and reach the surface when the sun is at a steep angle (like during a sunset).
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
GE sells LED bulbs that come with a remote, nothing smart about them, I can dim them or turn them off entirely with the remote that lives on my bedside table.
dan@upvote.au 22 hours ago
If you get a Zigbee smart switch (or smart bulb) and a Zigbee remote, you can pair the switch/bulb and remote directly so it works like you said, while still retaining the ability to control the light using Home Assistant (eg automatically turn it on or off based on something).
djdarren@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I have a Zigbee controller coming at some point this week, so I can set up a bunch of Zigbee sensors and products that a friend of mine no longer needs. Proper looking forward to seeing what I can do with it all in Home Assistant.
daanvd@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Hard mode: just sleep with the lights on.
Matty_r@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Sleep maxing.
Sleep mask plus earphones that are specifically designed for sleeping (white noise, soft, low profile against pillow).
nodiratime@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Optimizing your way out of being able to sleep without aid (I do it too).
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Do you guys not have light switches next to your bed?
Starski@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Most rooms I’ve seen have the light switch right next the door, most bedrooms don’t also keep their bed right next to the door. I’m assuming most people also don’t want to run wire through the walls wherever they’re renting/living.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Most bedrooms I have seen have multiple light switches wiht one of them being next to the bed most of the time.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 54 minutes ago
I go to sleep drunk a lot. I forget to turn off lights. My partner calls me out for it. I have not shame.