It's been a steep learning curve but it's cool that most of the stuff just works (TP-Link #Kasa and #Tapo, #Ikea Zigbee, #Philips#Hue (using the Hue Bridge, not directly connected to my Zigbee coordinator). Some stuff this uses the cloud (but can be used locally), other stuff takes out the cloud entirely. (1/2)
Never thought about it before, but I can set up motion capture from my #RaspberryPi cameras through #HomeAssistant. Especially with my #Hue motion sensor in the back. Takes the load off the Pi's if I was to do it on the cameras.
#VietnameseSkyraiders rent the air with ferocious whines as they dive-bombed sections of the city, notably the #Chinese quarter of #Cholon, which was honeycombed with #VietCong. The planes sent #refugees scattering in all directions and plumes of smoke shooting into sunny skies that mocked the city's agony. In six of #Saigon's nine districts, 24-hour curfews were still in effect, meaning that those districts harbored at least small bands of #guerrillas still operating as units.
Except for #Hué, the most serious city fighting was in #Saigon. Once a gracious, languid island in the midst of war, Saigon last week was a city rimmed by fear. Every half-hour the radio grimly warned: "The Saigon #Cholon area is not considered secure. #Firefights and #sniperFire are expected to continue. Do not travel on foot. All vehicles must have an armed escort."
In face of heavy military and political failures in both zones North & South Viet Nam, and the ever-stronger protest movement against the U.S. #WarOfAggression in Viet Nam by the peoples the world over, #UnitedStates included, #LBJohnson had to declare the limited bombings in North Viet Nam on March 31, 1968.
The University of [#CanTho bombed by #USplanes. #Saigon and its periphery bombed and strafed by U.S. planes. #ChoLon bombed by U.S. planes #Hue bombed by U.S. planes #ApBa hamlet #DaNang province bombed by U.S. planes. #Civilians in Saigon #killed by #USbombs and shells.
Civilians in Cho Lon killed by U.S. bombs and shells.
Toxic gas has also been used in their raids.]
*ChoLon is where my patriarch family lived before we were displaced by bombings & where my Grandpa owned large incense factory.
Slowly adding everything back to the new #homeassistant installation on #proxmox. Amazing what a fresh install can do. Now that my #hue smart plug is in (#zigbee ) I can automate power cycling my modem when the connection sours. It’s been unstable since I moved room.
Recent #SmartHome developments around #MyQ garage door opener and Philips #Hue lights just demonstrate the importance of #OpenStandards and protocols as well as of free as in freedom software. When a device implements an open standard/protocol, e.g., #Zigbee, you are free to choose any implementation available, including a #FreeSoftware implementation, e.g., #HomeAssistant, that is under your instead of vendor's control.
We have a mixture of Tradfri and Hue lamps in our house, which all worked fine together until today. Now the Hue bridge is only sporadically connecting to the Tradfri bulbs, if at all. Has Philips done a dirty and blocked the cheap Ikea bulbs with a firmware update? 🤔
Ich soll nun also eine Account erstellen, damit ich meine Philips HUE Lampen zu Hause weiterhin per App steuern kann. Dafür dient es der "Sicherheit" und ich kann die Lampen von überall her steuern. Wer brauch das und meine Daten gehen dann wieder sonst wo hin.
Projekt für meine Ferien nächste Woche. Drittanbieter App finden, die Lokal funktioniert. #datenschutz#PhillipsHue#hue
I know this has been a thing for a bit, but it's such garbage #Hue worked perfectly fine locally without being connected. Users are being forced to login for... reasons. The continued #Enshittification of the Internet.
That includes a potential alternative for continued use of the existing gear, without migrating to the Phillips cloud.
Between what Phillips is seemingly doing, and with reported breaches at Johnson Controls and elsewhere, having essential systems operating mostly- or entirely-locally seems wise.
Though local environmental, monitoring, and security gear can be breached, too.
I’d write that about hosting critical IT apps locally too, though a major breach at any large vendor (AWS, or Azure, or Apple, or GCP, or ilk) would still have knock-off IT effects ~everywhere.
@HoffmanLabs I hope the #Hue bulbs in my #HomeAssistant setup continue functioning. But if not, yeah, I'm not going to do a cloud registration. I'll rip out the bulbs (and hub) and replace them with open components.
There we go - the technological #enshittification pandemic has also reached Philips #Hue.
Apparently they weren't making enough money by selling bulbs at $50/70 each. They'll now force you to log in through their app to the bridge too, or all of your bulbs will just stop working.
What this means, among the other things, is that tons of unofficial integrations that have been built over the years (phue being one of them, which I contributed to in the past, and is also used by Platypush to interact with Hue bridges) are also likely to stop working once you upgrade your bridge's firmware. Those integrations leverage the old push-the-pairing-button mechanism to pair with the client, but now in-app authentication through a registered account seems to be a requirement - and I definitely have better things to do with my time than reverse engineer again their shitty authentication flow and push a PR to phue.
Philips Hue (sorry, Signify B.V.; Philips has actually given up on building anything, they're just waiting for everybody who works there to retire) has joined the long wagon of companies that have realized that scooping up as much data as they can from their users (that probably includes at what time you usually wake up and go to sleep, from your bedroom lights patterns, or how often you go to the toilet) and selling it to data brokers provides a much steadier revenue stream than selling actual products that people want (even if those products are already quite pricey). And they don't care if fullfilling their new missions of being a mere data collector rather than a tech company means to literally break overnight the lights in the houses of millions of customers.
Of course, I was kind of prepared for this. I have #Platypush installed on a RPi with a Zigbee dongle and zigbee2mqtt, and it already does the job for a bunch of Hue, Ikea and other cheap Zigbee lights. That's all you need to make your own Zigbee bridge. #HomeAssistant and #OpenHAB are other popular options.
But it'll still take me a while to unpair a few tens of Hue devices in my house that are still connected to my Hue bridge (which I purchased a decade ago btw), and reconfigure tens of groups, scenes and automation routines on my self-managed bridge instead.
I used to love being a software engineer, building things and solving problems. Now being an engineer sucks, even as a hobby, and I don't feel anymore like this is what I want to do with my life.
It's not up to me to decide what to build anymore. It's up to Spotify killing their streaming libraries, Twitter or Reddit killing their API, Hue breaking their products if you don't log in through their app, YouTube coming up with ways to break youtube-dl on a daily basis, Google breaking your browser extensions, Red Hat and Docker turning suddenly hostile towards the FOSS community that made their fortunes, Messenger periodically logging out your alternative clients and locking your account, an increasing number of companies who insult the large community of unpaid volunteers that builds against their ecosystems as "free-riders" and make it their business mission to break their implementations, and the list could go on forever.
I'm no longer working with ecosystems built by companies who genuinely want to build good things that people want to use, who treat the community of developers around them as an asset rather than a liability, and even sport "don't be evil" among their core values. I'm working in an industry that continuously takes hostile stances against the FOSS community, unofficial clients, and anything that doesn't fit neatly into the quarterly vision for profitability outlined in the PowerPoint deck of a sociopath product manager with no tech background, and who couldn't care less if they are selling IoT devices or bricks. And I have to dodge these attacks on a daily basis, one line of code at the time, for the hundreds of integrations available in the projects I maintain or contribute to, just to keep things working without losing features overnight.
I wake up the morning thinking "how will tech companies decide to fuck me up today just to get one more byte about me to sell to data brokers, and which activities will I be forced to put aside in order to write some code that fixes the UX-breaking shitshow that one of their greedy managers has decided to put up today in an effort to beef up their quarterly bonus with a +1% uptick in revenue?"
Congratulations, motherfuckers. Your broken business models have broken tech for everyone.
#Signify (#Philips#Hue) beweist seit vielen Jahren, wie ein IoT-System problemlos cloudless betrieben werden kann.
Bald führen Sie mit fadenscheinigen Ausflüchten ("Sicherheit", lol) einen #Cloudzwang ein.
Das ist enttäuschend, aber für 40€ und etwas Migrationsaufwand kann man sich freikaufen: https://phoscon.de/de/conbee2