[easy_rider]

I just bought 3 Miilight bulbs, and obviously after installing them I was like. Man my neighbours could probably control my lights... I also have a RF remote which operates on 2,4ghz and does not require network authentication. The Wifi bridge does require authentication however. I was thinking of building an RF "cannon" with a directional antenna and see how far I can go. I also got a DVB-T dongle. I should be able to "catch" the signal, right?

[DanHulton]

I can't seem to find anything on the Googles for that product.

Is it spelled correctly? Can you give me a link to it? I'm interested in home automation, but all the ones I've looked into so far don't really do it for me.

[easy_rider]

Thanks guys, typo indeed. [0]

Here is a article [1] describing a setup involving this type of RGB light and the raspberry. It also covers some other type of RGB lights.

The wifi bridge has been sitting on my desk for a while now. not bothered yet since the remote is sufficient for now. So can not really comment on that. Otherwise happy with one of the cheaper alternatives. No problems as of yet. Waiting for my lights to get switched on and off though :D The remote doesn't require line of sight as its RF, and already has quite the range.

[0] http://www.milight.com/

[1] http://iqjar.com/jar/home-automation-using-the-raspberry-pi-...

[madeofpalk]

Have you looked much at the Philips Hue? The combination of a reletively low price (at least compared to LifX) and an open RESTful API, they're my favourite.

Recently I created a little node service that listens to events from our site from RabbitMQ and flashes the Hue lightbulbs when interesting things happen.

[profil]

I guess he means http://www.milight.com/

[cromulent]

Probably a typo. Try http://www.milight.com.

[boredinballard]

The dvbt dongles can usually only make it up to 2.2ghz max.

[lucaspiller]

You can plug a down converter into it so that the 2.4GHz is within range of the RTL-SDR device:

http://blog.cyberexplorer.me/2014/01/sniffing-and-decoding-n...