I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease

[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.

[markotway@mastodonapp.uk]

@michielw
Ethernet light bulbs? Over POE? Like your style.
@db

[ralph@fedi.mayer.rocks]

@db leaving the water was a mistake, indeed

[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.

[catboycody@tech.lgbt]

@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...

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@db Zwave/Zigbee all the way.

[k@layer8.space]

@bascule @db what

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@db
And thunk goes the main contactor!

[bouriquet@mastodon.social]

@db Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla are both rolling on their grave floor right now in laughter.

[finity@infosec.exchange]

@db mains breaker off -> on?

[peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv]

@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".

[johanwestling@mastodon.social]

@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

[rmq@toot.io]

@markotway USB-C powered lightbulbs.

@michielw @db

[w4tsn@darmstadt.social]

@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

[tsukkitsune@is.nota.live]

@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