I'm literally unscrewing lightbulbs to renew their DHCP lease

[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

[modernmaslow@techhub.social]

@db Have you assigned ip's on your router?

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@heals @db @jenny753

Just flip the main breaker and reboot the whole house.

[archaide@bonn.social]

@db why WLAN? Besides the general fault, that is a constant hustle. I am with #zigbee in this regard.

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@db i like dumb appliances

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@db

Smart homes are a gimmick.

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@db LOLOLOLOL

[d_rift@beige.party]

@tom @db 'induce seizure to connect' seems unwise

[arlodottxt@fosstodon.org]

@w_b @heals @db @jenny753 lol turn the house off and on again

[sanityinc@hachyderm.io]

@josh0 @db how many network engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

[crimperman@hachyderm.io]

@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.

[nemokamui@infosec.exchange]

@db @ai6yr Lutron has been pretty solid, just a bridge to their existing wireless controls. One device on the network.

[hi@romanzolotarev.com]

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)

[davidbraze@mstdn.social]

@db doesn't matter over thread with ipv6 solve this problem?

[josh0@babka.social]

@sanityinc @db depends. If we want to do it in parallel, it’s probably O(N). In series it’s going to depend on deadline, budget, spacing between bulbs, and the prevailing overtime laws.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@db What I want to know is why the fuck we put the microcontroller in the literally designed to be disposable part of the light and not as an additional layer like a smart plug. At least then, you could just take out that additional layer and deal with dumb lighting while you fix it.

[tsenov@mastodon.online]

@db Someone somewhere is updating the web server on their washing machine.