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(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:03, 1 reply, 10 years ago)

I'm reaching for the moon but gazing at stars.
Oh, because I didn't clock it 'till the next day when I came across an interesting blog, I worked out the calculatings behind that HSL issue.

Hue is done in degrees, 360, but there are 184.2 values on the PH per degree, so I just timesed the degree by 184.2 then toFIxed(0) because it can only take an int.

Sat is normally a %, but there are 255 possible values, so the maths was easy there.

Bri is irrelevant to colour, but again, it's 255 possible values.
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RGB/HEX to HSL is worked out via a jsLib I found called tinyColour, which converts anything to anything.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:13, Reply)

I've got a switch where if you press the bottom the lights turn on and if you press the top the lights turn off.

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:15, Reply)

That's how all light switches work isn't it?

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:20, Reply)

Not in America

( Peej, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:22, Reply)

in merica you have to shoot the bulb out with a shotgun

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:28, Reply)

Well duh

( Peej, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:32, Reply)

Someone linked a vid on fb yesterday where some dozy yank had wired his house wrong
the light switches behaved oddly and he could turn a light on and off and alter the brightness of it by plugging a hairdryer in a nearby socket. Surprised the place didn't burn down.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:33, Reply)

it's called FREEDOM you goshdarn COMMUNIST

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:37, Reply)

Lightly posted a really funny article about how this german bloke built a SmartHouse about 5 years ago...
... but naturally there was no Standards for it like they're building today (Zigbee/HomeKit/etc), and suddenly everything stopped working and going crazy.

In the end it turned out that a blown lightbulb was DoSing his whole house.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:38, Reply)

I was just going to go look for that link
shan't bother now.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:44, Reply)

I hacked my Tado system this week too.
They have a mobile-first website written AngularJS, so I Prettified it's JS which exposed all it's API calls.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:50, Reply)

Filthy

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:51, Reply)

Only a bit,
When I told their Twitter, I was supprised they didn't react a bit stronger, because one of the params is a numerical "ClientID". I don't think that's entirely secure, I didn't test it against the cookie, but if they're accepting that, then the odds are I can change other people's heating.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:55, Reply)

and this is why the "Internet of Things" is a dumb idea
By all means have stuff in your house talk to each other, but ffs air gap it from the Internet at all costs.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:01, Reply)

If it's done right, then it's OK.
On the Philips Hue system, every time you use a new app, you have to phsyically press a button on the base-station.

This year at WWDC we'll see HomeKit implimented properly, now that manufacturers have had a year to get certifications from Apple - I think that'll do the job properly.

NFC on iOS is locked down due to ApplePay, but it can 'unlock doors' in hotels, so I have no idea how actually locked down it is.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:20, Reply)

Not convinced by any means
Even smart TVs are phoning out unencrypted now, pisspoor security through cost-cutting doesn't make me want to touch any of it with a bargepole.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:28, Reply)

5 years ago? maybe further back than 5 years.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:48, Reply)

Can't remember exactly, but far back enough that he needed basiclly to build a server-farm in his basement.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:51, Reply)

ha ha ha hardwired smart homes

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 10:00, Reply)

that was the joke

(old man river possible lesbian, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:22, Reply)

Not in America

( Peej, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:28, Reply)

Yeah', well, I fucking MADE that switch; that's gotta be worth some kudos.
Plus I have the Stickers version of these: estimote.com/ , that I've managed to get interacting with properly.... so I can just put my phone on the table and it'll pre-set a seqence or whatever.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:20, Reply)

I fucking hate coding presentational stuff; all this dicking about to make something a bit more green.
Give me some tricky business logic any day of the week.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:19, Reply)

I'm 60/40 towards the backend, I like both.
But we're talking about interacting with the API behind these: www2.meethue.com/en-gb/
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:21, Reply)

' I'm 60/40 towards the backend, I like both.'
Fnaaar
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Fri 6 Mar 2015, 9:49, Reply)