A Brain Transplant for a Philips Smart Lamp.

As the saying goes, modern problems require modern solutions. When the modern problem is that your smart light is being hijacked by the neighbors, [Wjen]’s modern solution is to reverse engineer and replace the mainboard.

https://wejn.org/2024/12/reversing-philips-hue-light-driver/

#diy #esp32 #light #driver #reverse #engineer #artist #media #smartlight #pwm #functions #progamming #zigbee #protocol #tech #maker #art #news

i set up #HomeBridge so all my roomates have access to all our home lights from their phones  

if u want to use multiple phones without buying an expensive home hub (which is required on the new #HomeKit architecture, booooo Apple) u can just clone ur platforms and plugins in the json as many times as u have phones and make sure each one has a unique id and child bridge. janky but seems to work!

#homeautomation #smarthome #smartlight

Hoping someone out there can offer the advice I need to solve some of my light fittings 😅

I’ve got a few of the #aqara #zigbee light switches around, but have a few points that are like these brown switch panel on rough brick. I’m not sure how I’m going to get a switch to sit on that as they’re 2-3 gang vertically, are smaller, and it seems as though the brick was cut to fit them.

The Aqara switches are larger and wouldn’t fit.. so is there some custom mould I could put there to raise the switches from the wall?

#lightswitch #lightfixture #selfhosted #zigbee2mqtt #smarthome #smartlight #smartswitch