Blinking good: LG launches smart light bulb for Android/iOS LG has launched the Smart Lamp, a hi-tech light bulb which can be controlled by smartphone that looks to have the potential to both secure an office and liven up the Christmas party held within its walls. The Smart Lamp is a 60W LED light bulb which can communicate with iOS 6.0 and above or Android 4.3 and above smartphones by …
"during a call its useful for deaf people. I have a firend who his deaf and when someone rings the bell at his apartment the lights in every room blink."
How ingenious.
Does it do the same when his phone rings as well?
"Oh? I thought that was simply a feature of the way British electricians seem to do their job.."
Plaster dust in the switch during building work can cause some interesting flickering/poltergeist style lighting effects.
Disconnect mains power
Take out switch from box
Disconnect wires
Apply vacuum cleaner
Reconnect all hardware
Switch on mains
See what happens.
" I have a firend who his deaf and when someone rings the bell at his apartment the lights in every room blink."
Mate of mine used to work with a near-totally-deaf woman who had a hearing dog. When her phone rang the dog would bark.
As she couldn't hear the phone, the dog or if by some miracle she answered the call, the person on the other end it was all somewhat pointless but it did do some interesting things to his bipolar disorder.
"Mate of mine used to work with a near-totally-deaf woman who had a hearing dog. When her phone rang the dog would bark."
An old story...
It's common practice to ring a telephone by signaling extra
voltage across one side of the two wire circuit and ground. When the
subscriber answers the phone, it switches to the two wire circuit for
the conversation. This method allows two parties on the same line to be
signaled without disturbing each other.
Anyway, an elderly lady with several pets called to say that her
telephone failed to ring when her friends called, and that on the few
occasions when it did ring her dog always barked first. The telephone
repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog.
He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed
her house. The phone didn't ring. He tried again. The dog barked loudly,
followed by a ringing telephone. Climbing down from the pole, the
telephone repairman found:
1. A dog was tied to the telephone system's ground post via an iron
chain and collar.
2. The dog was receiving 90 volts of ring signal.
3. After several such jolts, the dog would start barking and urinating
on the ground.
4. The wet ground now completed the circuit and the phone would ring.
Which shows you that some problems in life can be fixed by just pissing
on them...
Looked interesting, but the "remote control whilst not in the house" feature very much suggests that control instructions go through a 3rd party server (otherwise it could not cope with DHCP addresses that change and the firewalls that some providers implement in their routers.
An unknown 3rd party with control over bits of my house? Nope. Sorry. (assuming I'm correct here, I asked for clarification).
and to determine if there was any benefit between the brands we carefully numbered each 'light' and it's location.
After a year of use we found the 'Dutch Masters' products were WORSE than cheaper OEM/No Name Chinese knock offs that have a 5-year warranty.
The Phillips mini-fluorescents also have a high fail rate BUT the difference is we can get them refurbished for a $1 (including a one year warranty) from a hole-in-the-wall entrepreneur.
All our lights are tied into our computer controlled fire alarm system which uses lighting to indicate the nearest exit.
I bet this new network device ties in well with LG's other business: bullet-proof hosting for spammers and hackable appliances that can send spam. While some networks will use lame excuses to host a spammer for a month or two, LG simply provides invalid contact addresses and hosts the spammer for years.
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