Got an IoT colored light. Thought it would be so cool. I mean, control your lights FROM YOUR PHONE? Awesome now I don't have to get up any more. What it ended up being was a huge disappointment on an app that took 5 hours to set up and takes 5 minutes to open and needs to be re-initialized every time the power goes out. It burnt out after a year. Don't get me wrong, the idea is cool as hell but stay the hell away from IoT. Even when it's handed the best concept on a silver platter it finds a way to make it unusably shitty. As always: Fuck capitalism.
It sounds worse than it is. It's an LED so it needs a driver anyway and when it comes to digital components the cost is in the programming, not the parts.
It's still a waste though because of how badly implemented it is. My first thought shouldn't be "Sheesh they should make a light switch for this thing"
Got an IoT colored light. Thought it would be so cool. I mean, control your lights FROM YOUR PHONE? Awesome now I don't have to get up any more. What it ended up being was a huge disappointment on an app that took 5 hours to set up and takes 5 minutes to open and needs to be re-initialized every time the power goes out. It burnt out after a year. Don't get me wrong, the idea is cool as hell but stay the hell away from IoT. Even when it's handed the best concept on a silver platter it finds a way to make it unusably shitty. As always: Fuck capitalism.
Putting full web capable hardware inside light bulbs seems extraordinarily wasteful.
It sounds worse than it is. It's an LED so it needs a driver anyway and when it comes to digital components the cost is in the programming, not the parts.
It's still a waste though because of how badly implemented it is. My first thought shouldn't be "Sheesh they should make a light switch for this thing"
not having to get up to turn on the lights....it's called a lamp lol.