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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • A little late to the party, but yes, I can confirm that Hue bulbs can be controlled directly over zigbee. You will need a zigbee radio if you haven’t already bought one (£20-ish).
    They literally just appear like a zigbee device inside that integration.

    You may need to reset them before they will pair.
    I forget the pattern, but iirc it’s on 2s, off 8s, repeated until you see an acknowledgement flash.
    Sometimes, you’ll get one that takes forever, then the next bunch will just hop right on.
    I have several Hue hubs I still need to offload, as I sometimes buy the combo packs that include another hub.

    I also found that the response time was a lot quicker over direct zigbee than farting around with Signiant/Philips’ API.









  • Where I live, there is no restriction (other than the standard policed ones) on using amps etc.
    This means on a 500m pedestrianised high-street, every Saturday is 6+ separate people making noise.
    It gets unbearable, because while one in ten is actually half decent, the other nine are cranking the backing track up as loud as possible to get some people paying attention.

    I don’t live in London, but am I correct in thinking that TFL made people do auditions for busking spots on the tube?
    That seemed to be a neat way to improve the quality. And did make me laugh the one time I had to wait just outside a station, then realised that the busker was playing the most well known 30 seconds from Wonderwall over and over.