With LED bulbs lasting tens of thousands of hours, the manufacturers can afford to make the micro controller and WiFi chip disposable.
$12.50 in a four-pack.
Here's the brains of a LIFX bulb with the LED chips around the periphery.
Posted on 02/10/2019 6:38:37 PM PST by ameribbean expat
Your smart lightbulb is probably storing your wifi password in the clear, ready to be recovered by wily dumpster-divers; Limited Results discovered the security worst-practice during a teardown of a Lifx bulb; and that's just for starters: the bulbs also store their RSA private key and root passwords in the clear and have no security measures to prevent malicious reflashings of their ROMs with exploits, network probes and other nasties.
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All of my lightbulbs are dumb. I checked. Dumb as a rock. I tried to stike up a conversation but nothing happened. Dumber than Mongo in a saloon.
OMG
I bought one single CFL and put it in the overhead fixture in my office. That lasted a couple of days. The quality of the light was horrible and the price of the bulb was ridiculous.
For me also that was basically when I decided to stock up on incandescent bulbs.
I just recently changed out four 4 foot double fixtures of fluorescent bulbs in my garage into LED bulbs. What a tremendous improvement.
The idiot contractor who built my house did not put low temperature ballast fluorescent bulbs in. So 6 months of the year I had almost no light in the garage.
Smarter to just not have or use smart devices.
Who the heck needs a “smart” light bulb? Even without the security issue, what possible advantage is there? So I can tell Alexa to turn the lights on? Why?
With LED bulbs lasting tens of thousands of hours, the manufacturers can afford to make the micro controller and WiFi chip disposable.
$12.50 in a four-pack.
Here's the brains of a LIFX bulb with the LED chips around the periphery.
I know my wifi toaster loves me and will never turn on me.
Smart bulb?
Sounds like a dim bulb to me.
LOL! I thought you were kidding me, but I found ‘ultrasonic remote controls’ (it’s funny that one of the first ones was called ‘Lazy Bones’!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_control#Television_remote_controls
We had nothing like that, just second-hand tvs, and when a tube burned out or something else went wrong, it would be months before we could afford to get the tv fixed again. It was always just getting up, changing channels, twisting around the rabbit ears, and constantly adjusting the vertical or horizontal :-)
WTF is a smart light bulb?
What is next, smart vegetables? Smart toilets? Smart paint?
Is everything smart today? Sheesh.
#45. Back when the “stupid” ban on old style bulbs was put in, there was a clause that allowed certain types of bulbs made in a state to be sold only instate. This included them. Don’t know if this is still in effect or not. I hate the curly bulbs that contain Mercury. Hard to find a place to recycle them.
The Internet of Things: What could possibly go wrong?
My dishwasher needs wifi to tell me a load is done, my fridge needs to tell me I am running out of milk, and my electric toothbrush needs to tattle on me to my dentist!!!!
“dumb” technology. somehow it makes you feel smarter.
My dumb bulbs shine brighter every day.
How many Hillary staffers does it take to change a lightbulb?
4, 1 to change the bulb, 1 to smash the old one with a hammer, 1 shoot the 1 who destroyed the evidence, and 1 as head of legal council.
Smart light bulbs?
These are necessary why?
But you can put a speaker inside that lightbulb and listen to music in your kitchen (via the light fixture) from your streaming computer in a nearby room.
Of course it isn’t a stretch to make such data transfer 2-way and include a microphone (and or cam) inside that “smart” bulb.
Be seeing you.
>>How does one get the info off the bulb?
“wifi”
I don’t like our brave new world full of computerized everything, legal drugs and socially acceptable deviance and devoid of God.
Maybe I’m thinking bluetooth
I have bluetooth headphones that I can charge up via USB but once charged I turn it on off-wire and hold some buttons to make it “reset” and agree to allow connection from the first bluetooth device that asks (computer, phone, etc.).
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