Just ordered this What does /g/ think of bulb technology?

>>59145332
Botnet
Not even joking

>>59145332

can it run Doom?

>>59145346
kek

propietary expensive crap that won't last a year or two

would be great if it worked but eh

>>59145346
/thread

>>59145346
what?

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>>59145332
>spelling error on the fucking box

>>59145839
What spelling error?

>>59145916
colour has a u in it

>>59145346

i came here to post this FUCK

>>59145780

>app to control lights
>they know now where every single light is in your house
>easier to circle around you
>possible voice recording devices and cameras inside lightbulbs

enjoy your botnet faggot

>>59145930
Not in America silly Briton

>>59145332
Why did you order that?
Why didn't you just get regular LED bulbs sans botnet?

>>59145937
you should get meds for your paranoid schizophrenia

>>59145346
He's right you know

>>59145332
i like my appliances just do one thing and do it right

>>59145937
While your fears are in theory reasonable, in this case it would be very, very easy to spot/notice with a basic knowledge about the technology and protocols involved.
Also, afaik they work in your local network without any internet connenction.

>>59145409
Proprietary as in? It's a light bulb, are you going to manufacture your own and demand their blueprints?
Their firmware is proprietary, that's right. However, as far as control goes, the API is open and you can control them solely with self-written programs, no internet connection required.
Maybe you can even flash them with an own firmware? Dunno if that exists yet. However, there are other (cheaper) manufacturers for similar products.

>>59145948
>Not in America silly Briton
There's French on the packaging so I assume it's either for the Canadian market or for the European. In both cases the AE spelling doesn't make much sense.

>IoT lightbulbs

what a time to be alive

though I saw chargeable lightbulbs that can be turned on when power shortage occurs, those are probably cool

>>59145332
>having your lights connect to the internet and fucking report on your habits and shit

cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

>Philips Hue LED smart lights hacked, home blacked out by security researcher
>2013
enjoy scriptkiddies switching your lights off unexpectedly

i have this
pretty sweet to turn down the lights from the pc when watching a movie,
red lighting in bedroom for sex time,
also you can use it as a wake up light in Sleep As Android

How are led fluorescent tube replacements?

Enjoy your never-patched IoT software that puts your whole network at risk.

>>59145332
They're pretty cool actually.

>>59145332

>not getting the Sony one that doubles as a speaker too

Scrub.

>>59146185
stuff made for the us often has French on it because the Canadian market is considered a branch of the American one by 95% of non-canadian companies

The tech has gotten a lot better. LEDs offer the actual light quality of incandescents although some bulb shapes can be weird. Cree is cheaper but Philips provides better bulbs. Everything Costco sells in this department (e.g. Feit electrical) is garbage. Specialty bulbs e.g. vanities for bathrooms are still really expensive. Older dimmer switches often need to be changed as there will still be some light on the lowest setting if they leak a small amount of current when off, and on the lower end on of dimming some bulbs will flicker depending on the bulb and dimmer.

>>59145346
>Botnet
>a network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge, e.g., to send spam messages.

Oh yeah my ceiling is gonna attack the Scientology website

>>59146457
It depends on the consumer good. Package food labeling laws vary, but with Video games nowadays, particularly from Nintendo, they'll have US-EN/CA-FR/MX-ES on it.

A lot of packaged hardware shit I buy from Costco nowadays in New York has both English and French on it.

>>59145937
Hahahahahahahaha

>>59146444
>$239.99
I really wish I was this autistic

>>59146536

Poorfag.

can they be used as black lights?

>>59145972
>Paranoid
The climb in IoT attacks are surely just coincidences!

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>>59145332
Meh.. I ordered 3 different brands and kept only the magic light. The phillips was not very bright and the features were greatly lacking. Magic light is superior.

>>59145972
Yeah because there's not like armies of easily hackable smart lights and shit attacking banks every other day...Oh wait

What's the best rgb bulb then? I'd like to get a few to put one in every room and maybe one on the living room.

>>59147058
lifx or Philips hue gen3 like in OP

>>59147058
Enlighten me: how would my hypothetical zigbee-capable bulb attack anything? In the worst case it could trigger its hub/bridge to issue an arbitrary HTTP request (so it's the hub, not the IoT device itself). However, this implies my hypothetical hub has a internet connection (which it doesn't need).

Don't get my wrong, what you depict exists. However, we are not talking about WiFi-capable and WiFi-connection-requiring IoT devices here so their problems don't apply.

>>59145332
it's cool. use one in conjunction with my alarm to wake up.

can get expensive fast though.

>>59146406
>>59146317
firmware in the bulbs gets updated

>not even a graphene bulb

I have the hue bulbs in my studio, absolutely essential to be able to adjust the light temp to check color accuracy of my work.

>>59145346
Kek
>when Russian hackers dim the lights in your house

>>59147513
solid kek

>>59145346
more like bulbnet

>>59145410
Lame ass bitch

>>59145332
>botnet
>led
>not suitable for enclosed fixtures
Once again /g/ buys inferior technology to fulfill their consumerist desires.

>>59148529
>Hey Siri, record my void and send it the NSA upon request
Already got you tbqh famalam

>>59146721
>>59147051

> talking about invisible voice and video recording devices

yes, this is the definition of paranoid schizophrenia senpai.

Is there florescent tube shaped lights like this?

tfw you dim the lights pink and your bae does a lap dance

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>>59145332
Am I doing it right?

nice to be able to change the color of my lights from my apple watch using siri
also smart outlets
hey siri turn on the tv
>meanwhile /g/ is over here with their shitty $200 thinkpads ricing their arch bullshit and thinking they're about tech
lol

>>59148889
>tfw you dim the lights Green(r) when you turn on your Razer(tm) Gaming(c) computer with an Nvidia(c) 1080(r)(tm) GPU(c)

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>>59148486
Good name

>>59148927
0/10

>>59148960
ok, but it's true, though

>>59145332
Price kills it.

I mean, it's cool, and I'd love to have it, but it's the absolute last thing on my "I want nice things" list. To replace the lights in my house would cost $2500. I'd rather spend that money on something else.

>>59148976
You can't be this washed. Stupid cia nigger cattle

>>59149006
are you literally 15?

>>59145332
I stockpiled enough incandescent bulbs to last about 8 more years.

At that point, I'm hoping they have a fix for all the current problems with LED bulbs:

* I need a minimum of 1600 lumens in the A19 form factor (not A21) with NO collar.

* I need a vast improvement in how pleasant the light is. I want it to look as nice as the old Reveal incandescent bulbs did. (That's quite a technical challenge, because LEDs only generate a small number of frequencies; whereas glowing tungsten generated a broad, well-balanced spectrum.)

* I need to see the price drop to about $10.

At the rate things are going, I think they can get all three accomplished by 8 years from now. Fortunately, there's some good competition going on (GE vs Cree vs Philips vs Sylvania, etc.).

>le rgb on everything meme

>>59149020
Are you new here?

>>59149162
been on 4chan since /g/ was guro
been on /g/ since its inception
protip: my question was rhetorical; I know that poster is 15 years old or some kind of manchild
>/g/ during the middle of a workday

>>59149123
incan Reveal looks like shit as does its spectrum. You'd be just fine with LED if you weren't poor.

Now if you preferred regular incans, you'd have a point.

>>59146457
I can verify this. I live near Las Vegas, but a surprising percentage of durable goods in the stores have labeling in both English and French.

Even if it has French, the English is usually AE (in other words it would be spelled "color".)

So it looks like the Canadian and US labeling is pretty much merged together: US spelling, but with French added for the Quebec market; so Canadian English speakers just need to deal with US spelling.

>>59149216
>incan Reveal looks like shit as does its spectrum.

Personal preference. I hate the yellow tinge of regular incandescent. Reveal incandescent gets rid of that excess yellow. I've seen spectrum graphs of Reveal incandescent, and they are indeed better balanced than regular.

>>59147051
>>59148740
>>59149006
How many times a day do you type FAKE NEWS

>>59149335
The hue lights can be set to any white temp.

>>59148486
underrated post

>>59146457
>Canada is considered american
It IS in fucking America, you mongoloid.

>>59146476
thats basically what the mirari botnet did, it infected a bunch of internet of things devices (such as these smart lightbulbs) and used them to make massive DDoS attacks

>>59149380
look up mirai botnet. Used shitty unpatched internet of things devices to launch some of the biggest DDoS attacks seen

>>59148927
>doesnt work with some devices because there is no universal standard for this stuff

yeah, i'm not falling for that marketing bullshit

>>59149123
you can get a xiaomi rgb for ~18 bucks

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Finally, a chance to post this.

>>59151113
kek

>>59151113
how long have you waited for this day?

>>59151113
l e l

>>59151196

Not as much waited as it sat in my /g/ folder for the past three or four years.

one thing they dont tell you is most of these smart bulbs use PWM to simulate dimming. it means these bulbs turn on and off at 60hz.

its almost as bad as some fluorescent tubes that a lot of people have sensitivity to, and its the reason BENQ came out with flicker-free led monitors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwuUpe1mCX4

>>59145346
>>59145332
I mean really most light bulb sockets can easily support up to 100W. Not hard for them to add in a 5W SoC in each of these bulbs to actually have a botnet.

>>59153033
so enjoy the headaches

>>59153086
The botnet isn't supposed to be in the bulbs themselves, but in the hub thing that they're connected to.

I have no idea if it's actually true, but that's what I've read.

>>59151047
>>doesnt work with some devices because there is no universal standard for this stuff
wrong

>>59153110
PWM dimming at low frequencies should be avoided. its very likely bad for your health

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>>59147513
LMAO

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>>59153176
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C12QxTJL1KU

heres a vid of a bunch of led bulbs, notice a lot of them have really strong flickering

>>59145332
I got a coloured one and two white ones. Pretty comfy tbqh.
The light is nice and you can program them to turn on/off at given times