Hacking Hue Lightbulbs
What do you do with a Hue smart lightbulb? Well, if you are [Chris Greening], you take it apart and get hacking. If you ever wondered what’s inside, the teardown …read more Continue reading Hacking Hue Lightbulbs
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Modifying Lights for DIY Ambiance
The ESP32 and ESP8266 spread like wildfire a few years ago due to their small form factor, low price, and wireless capability. They didn’t just take over the DIY scene, …read more Continue reading Modifying Lights for DIY Ambiance
Roku TV Hacked To Run Philips Ambilight Setup
Roku TVs are interesting beasts, which use automatic content recognition on whatever you happen to be watching in order to market online streaming services direct to your loungeroom. [Ammar Askar] …read more Continue reading Roku TV Hacked To Run Philips Ambilight Setup
The Smart Home Gains An Extra Dimension
With an ever-growing range of smart-home products available, all with their own hubs, protocols, and APIs, we see a lot of DIY projects (and commercial offerings too) which aim to provide a “single universal interface” to different devices and services. Usually, these projects allow you to control your home using …read more
Philips Hue Lights Finally Let You Control the Power-on Behaviour
Your smart lights will no longer hurt your eyes when they power back on.
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Interfacing Phillips Hue Lights With Everything
The Internet of Things is eating the world alive, and we can’t buy incandescent light bulbs anymore. This means the Internet is now in light bulbs, and with that comes some special powers. You can turn lights on and off from a botnet. You can change the colors. This is the idea for the Phillips Hue system, which is well respected among people who like putting their lights on the Internet. There are other brands — and you can make your own — but the Phillips Hue system does work pretty well.
This is what led [Marius] create the software …read more
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Create Cheap Philips Hue Compatible Devices
The Philips Hue range is a great way to add wirelessly controllable lighting to your home, but the protocol is proprietary which makes it difficult to add our own custom hardware. [Peter] found a way to create his own Hue compatible devices based on cheap JN5168 modules that are able to connect to the Hue bridge. This means you can roll out your own lamps using cheap RGB or White LEDs, a power supply and the JN5168 Zigbee Light Link module.
He started off by trying to clone a Zigbee Light Link device to a MeshBee — Seeed studio’s open …read more
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