Post #1958733
2026-05-04 13:36 UTC
Replies (39)
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@heals@indiepocalypse.social 2026-05-04 13:42
@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
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@oxy@social.bsdlab.au 2026-05-04 14:15
@db
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@zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net 2026-05-04 14:18
@db Oh my goodness I didn't even realize that was a thing 😅
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@josh0@babka.social 2026-05-04 14:19
@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!
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@violet@corteximplant.com 2026-05-04 14:22
@db who the hell got the "bright idea" for this anyway, huh? Huh??? /Silly
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@d1@autistics.life 2026-05-04 14:38
@db LOL! "...how many people does it take to renew a DHCP lease?"
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@Julia@cuties.social 2026-05-04 14:40
@db zigbee is the way
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@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us 2026-05-04 14:44
@db I've seriously tripped the lighting breaker, waited 30 seconds, and reset the breaker to avoid that exact thing before.
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@tom@tomkahe.com 2026-05-04 14:49
@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
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@kkarhan@c.im 2026-05-04 14:52
@db and now you know why I keep my home "stupid"…
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@SirMars@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 14:54
@BorrisInABox @db Well that something I'd never thought I'd hear anyone say this morning.
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@bascule@mas.to 2026-05-04 14:55
@db flashbacks to “The lightswitch has netcat”
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@michielw@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 15:01
@db I think getting WiFi-based smart devices is the mistake.
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@freja@freja.zone 2026-05-04 15:02
@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
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@lotte@is.luna.love 2026-05-04 15:07
@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?
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@lumiworx@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 15:09
@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.
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@ralph@fedi.mayer.rocks 2026-05-04 15:19
@db leaving the water was a mistake, indeed
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@lunareclipse@snug.moe 2026-05-04 15:33
@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.
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@CatboyCody@tech.lgbt 2026-05-04 15:41
@db I work in tech... Only smart-home things I own are the three radiator thermostats... Those are almost 12 years old and not capable to connect to the internet... And still I have trust issues... :floofWhat:
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@nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-05-04 15:45
@db Zwave/Zigbee all the way.
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@ozzelot@mstdn.social 2026-05-04 15:59
@db And thunk goes the main contactor!
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@bouriquet@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 15:59
@db Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla are both rolling on their grave floor right now in laughter.
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@finity@infosec.exchange 2026-05-04 16:01
@db mains breaker off -> on?
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@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv 2026-05-04 16:02
@db 15 years ago I was like "smart home sounds cool but all of it will be pricey because system needs to be robust". 5 years ago I was like "so they just did not bother at all".
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@johanwestling@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 16:08
@db Feel ya! Having Plejd for controlling light switches etc. Bought new lights with "smart" features and the light is great... But, when the internal battery of the lights runs out (aka you have the switch turned off for to long)... Next time you turn the lights on they go in to pairing mode (flashing until pairing is done) #fml
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@w4tsn@darmstadt.social 2026-05-04 16:14
@db oh dang, the light switch signal is lost again in an mqtt QoS1 queue as the home assistant mqtt client disconnected due to an invalid certificate since the acme client can't authenticate against the DNS server, bummer
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@tsukkitsune@is.nota.live 2026-05-04 16:15
@db SMASH THEM THEN PUT THE SMASHED BITS IN A CRUCIBLE AND MELT THEM NO MORE THE MACHINE WORKS FOR MAN OR IT IS DESTROYED
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@ModernMaslow@techhub.social 2026-05-04 16:15
@db Have you assigned ip's on your router?
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@Archaide@bonn.social 2026-05-04 16:35
@db why WLAN? Besides the general fault, that is a constant hustle. I am with #zigbee in this regard.
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-05-04 16:38
@db i like dumb appliances
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@kitkat_blue@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 16:52
@db Smart homes are a gimmick.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org 2026-05-04 17:02
@db LOLOLOLOL
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@crimperman@hachyderm.io 2026-05-04 17:30
@db I have a combination fan and light. Sometimes I have to reset the power for it because just one of those two needs a DHCP renewal...and it's rarely the same one twice. Fortunately it still uses the old switch rather than a relay. Most of the time I just use the remote that came with it.
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@nemokamui@infosec.exchange 2026-05-04 17:37
@db @ai6yr Lutron has been pretty solid, just a bridge to their existing wireless controls. One device on the network.
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 18:10
@db@social.lol If you're leasing, I'd say it more of a smart apartment
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@ferricoxide@blahaj.zone 2026-05-04 18:19
@db@social.lol I love my LifX bulbs, but, they're individually addressed. Any time I want to add a new AP or otherwise need to update SSIDs and/or passwords, I need to re-run setup on two-dozen+ lightbulbs. At least with my Hues, I really only need to configure the bridge and all the other lights just follow.
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@hi@romanzolotarev.com 2026-05-04 17:49
same here. a fleet of hundred smart devices is pain to manage. when design my home next time, i'll make it as dumb and as flexible as possible (to be able to change pipes, wires, partition walls, etc)
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@davidbraze@mstdn.social 2026-05-04 17:59
@db doesn't matter over thread with ipv6 solve this problem?
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@tsenov@mastodon.online 2026-05-04 18:03
@db Someone somewhere is updating the web server on their washing machine.