Bought a $30 'smart' light bulb that turned my living room into a disco for a month straight lol

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4 Comments

troychen2mo agoProlific Poster

How do you even fix something like that? I used to think smart home stuff was all cool and easy, but my own smart plug locked me out for a week. It completely changed my mind about needing everything to be connected. Now I see those little bugs as a huge headache waiting to happen. The convenience is never worth a month of random disco lights.

rowan_reed682mo ago

Right? It's like we traded one kind of work for another. Now instead of flipping a switch you gotta reboot an app, reset the device, and pray to the wifi gods.

the_faith2mo ago

Ever get that feeling it's all just extra work?

wade_kelly777d ago

1400 lumen bulb right? I had a similar thing happen with my neighbors wifi signal interfering with my smart switch. Took me three weeks to figure out the channel hopping was the problem. Changed my router settings to a fixed channel and the disco lights stopped completely. Factory reset is a pain and it didnt even fix it for me, had to dig into the network stuff myself.