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• digitalsushi 11y ago
  I didn't research smart bulbs at all before walking into best buy and purchasing a pair of LIFX 1000 color bulbs using the light intensity as the only metric between brand selection. Getting home, I realized that LIFX doesn't really plug and play with the other technologies. Their cloud service is not very reliable, and so it was a very bad experience upon arrival. Then I discovered the lightsd package, which is a service daemon that runs on anything with python. It exposes a json api on the network that any client can easily send programming commands to your lights. You can tag each bulb, so you can target any subset you can come up with. I made my own ruby client in a single night, and I barely code. Lightsd turned the LIFX bulbs from an obvious store return into something I am willing to keep. Barely.