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by voqv 1826 days ago
That account always brings me to chuckle. But the biggest joke actually comes from myself, being a person who owns 10 smart bulbs at home. This smart home thing has just stalled: * At least several times a week my hue bridge is not found and I lie for 10 seconds in bed repeatedly tapping the "off button" like a dummy. * Sync to music is still increadibly limited and just doesn't work well. Arguably it was better 7 years ago when streaming was less popular and apps could analyse the track waveform, instead of relying on microphones. * Sync to games and movies is also still fairly poor. If you're viewing a scene during broad daylight and in front of you a red van appears, the whole room goes red instead of maintaining the white daylight. * Dynamic light scenes are very cool but are also just a pain to use. It shouldn't take me 30 seconds to set the room to a certain mood. I sometimes feel like the developers of the dynamic scenes apps don't use their own products.

All just my experience.

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what I find strange is that my Hue bridge refuses to be detected unless I am connected to the 2.4Ghz network instead of the 5Ghz network, it doesn't make any sense to me because the bridge is connected directly by an ethernet cable, and there is no segmenting enabled on my router.