Hello,

I hope my question suits this community.

I’ve been working the past 72 hours reverse engineering an undocumented BLE mesh lamp. The process involved decompiling an apk, capturing bluetooth packets, checking how other people reverse engineered, checking and reading lots of related repositories, but finally (I’m so happy) it’s working!

In simple terms: I can now fully control my ceiling lamp (color, brightness, on/off, white color temperature) with a Python script.

I was thinking about wrapping FastAPI around it to expose API endpoints and run it on my Raspberry Pi Zero and then use my laptop to turn on / off or change the color when something happens.

But which event or what should happen to turn the light on/off?

EDIT: If you own this lamp and you’re actively searching for code repositories on Github regarding this lamp, you will find it. I just don’t want to post a public link here.

  • folekaule@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 days ago

    Tie it to your internet bandwidth usage, so that the bulb starts dimming when utilization goes up and maybe flicker a bit, as if you’re drawing too much power off the grid when you’re downloading stuff.

  • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    Command it to flicker mysteriously when someone arrives / walks past (perhaps determined by a new Bluetooth device like a phone being seen with a signal strength above some threshold?). Or, set up an anemometer. On nights with dramatic weather, as the wind gusts you can trigger spooky flickering. Or via lightning strike data off the internet.

    I’m not sure why my mind went to making your house haunted, but there you go…

    • q1p_@lemmy.zipOP
      4·
      3 days ago

      That’s an amazing idea! You know why? I don’t snore :D
      I could monitor audio and when a treshold is reached, turn on the lamp with a grace period.

    • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      The Cheat, we gave you that switch so you could turn the lights on and off. Not so you could throw light switch raves!

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Have it dim and brighten N times over the course of a few seconds to chime the hour on the hour, or have it blink a color.