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I remember this being brought up on reddit. Yes it's ridiculously lengthy, but having a procedure instead of a reset button is actually a smart idea. So they've
by Phillipharryt 7y ago
I remember this being brought up on reddit. Yes it's ridiculously lengthy, but having a procedure instead of a reset button is actually a smart idea. So they've taken a kernel of a good idea and went overboard on trying to protect users from accidentally resetting.
Having a procedure allows you to reset bulbs in hard-to-reach places or a whole set of lights in one room can be reset using the one lightswitch.
- worldsayshi 7y ago> having a procedure instead of a reset button is actually a smart idea I can't think of any user friendliness benefit for this. Are you thinking about component cost?
- Hinrik 7y ago> allows you to reset bulbs in hard-to-reach places
- m-ee 7y agoThey didn't have to remove the switch to do that
- Phillipharryt 7y agoThis way the bulb only has one form of input, current. It is far more basic and probably cheaper that way.
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- inamberclad 7y agoReset all the bulbs in a room at once.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoSo one should expect many bulbs to need resetting at once? I would hope the need for resets would be very sporadic.
- Phillipharryt 7y agoWell I would assume if you find yourself in a situation you need to reset a lightbulb in a light fitting, it's likely you would need to reset them all seeing as they're all being used for the same purpose/connecting to the same network.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoYou reset them because they stopped working correctly, otherwise you would reconfigure with an app or something. If you say one needs to reset them all, you mean that they have all broken.
- wetpaws 7y agoWhy not have both?
- SiempreViernes 7y agoImagine if your phone needed a factory reset after getting malware and the procedure meant the all the phones in the family got a factory reset, does that seem convenient?
- Phillipharryt 7y agoThis is a terrible analogy and I hope you see that. They are completely different use cases. Do you have your family phones situated in your ceiling all linked together in a fitting? This procedure is inconvenient, but the idea of using a procedure is very smart.
- rusk 7y agoI cant help but feel that there is a mismatch here between how electrical circuits and electronic circuits are wired. With electronics you have separate signalling and power but with electrical they are combined i.e. the “on” signal turning on the light switch is combined with power deliver of the electicity that powers the light bulb. Arguably for this to ever work properly your lights must always be “on” and their luminesnce mediated by a separate signaling channel. Then reseting is merely a matter of turning it “off” then “on”. Though perhaps a technical help desk would still be required...
- the_mitsuhiko 7y agoIKEA just has a turn off and on 6 times and it works well. Takes under two seconds.
- post_break 7y agoEver have a parent call and need help troubleshooting a wifi router over the phone? Imagine trying to walk them through this.