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Have we overcomplicated everything?
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I have one WiFi bulb in my house near the entrance to my office. I turn it red to let my housemates know I have a meeting without leaving my chair.
This is about the only reason I could see for a WiFi light bulb. I could wire something but that’s a lot more work.
It is more work, but imagine how cool you would feel with a big red button on your desk that you hit to turn the light on!
Thousands of people found out during 2020!
(I’m sure there was a physical button one somewhere)
With a Linux box and the lirc program, you can do it with a leftover number pad. Then you get ... more than 10 buttons!
Do you manually set the light bulb to red or do you have some kind of automation?
I tried to set up an automation with home assistant, because I use it for everything anyway.
But getting the information "You're in a call" from microsoft is impossible, if you can't create an "app" in order to get an api key, if the company sysadmin doesn't want you to have it.
Sadly I don’t have any automation for this. I just switch it to red with my phone.
Which is fine for me. Sometimes I have meetings where I’m not talking a lot and don’t have my camera on, so I don’t need to worry about interruptions.
You can go from blue alert to red alert without changing the bulb.