@ernie, hate to cold @ you, but, are you following this #sengLED smart light bulb fiasco? No one seems to be writing about it. Not the tech publications that promote sengled... no one. It's been days and people can't get their lightbulbs to work, esp if they were dimmed at night when they stopped working.
After a bunch of complaints to their main seller, #Amazon, Amazon finally released a statement to people that have them linked to one of their appliances. I suspect Amazon just wants to stop fielding calls about them, although they are still selling products that can't work now or be setup. #GoogleHome #iot #Alexa #homeAutomation #google #home
https://www.reddit.com/r/smarthome/comments/1lezw4w/anyone_have_issues_with_sengled_lightbulbs_not
/r/SengledUS is covering it, also https://www.reddit.com/r/SengledUS
@Mumonkan I know the trade war has left them unable to pay 1000 Chinese employees there and there is a big protest about it.
" Employees at Sengled Optoelectronics say the company has failed to pay their wages for three consecutive months, which prompted protesters to march to the local town hall to demand a resolution on April 29.
A Sengled employee confirmed the protest in a telephone interview with The Epoch Times on April 30. “Over a thousand of us went to the town hall to protest,” the worker said. “Employees’ wages haven’t been paid for half a year.”
“Over a dozen people were arrested,” he said. "The company owes wages to over 1,000 full-time workers. We are all entitled to full benefits—pensions, retirement funds, unemployment insurance. The amount they owe is huge, but they haven’t given us any explanation."
The worker said that the factory owner owes the government a great deal of money and the “factory should’ve shut down long ago.”
Supposedly there are youtube videos about it, too.
#sengled #smartlightbulb #tech #home #AmazonEcho #GoogleHome #alexa #HomeAutomation
https://www.ntd.com/us-tariffs-trade-war-push-workers-to-protest-in-china_1065961.html
my #sengled wifi "smart" lights have gone dark. or dumb. it seems like this is a universal phenomenon (see link below). there is some talk about workers at a factory in china going unpaid. seems like its lights out for sengled?
can some #electronics #hacker geek please #reverseengineer the bulb hardware or at least the protocol so we can free our bulbs? #opensource #smarthome #iot
https://www.reddit.com/r/SengledUS/comments/1lez0zo/sengled_down/
Anyone else having issues with Sengled lightbulbs. They seem to be having server issues for the last 20 or so hours and we're having to turn the lights on and off like it was 2015 again.
Even logging into the app fails.
#sengled #smartlightbulb #tech #home #AmazonEcho #GoogleHome #alexa #HomeAutomation
The cheaper #Zigbee bulbs from #Sengled are nice… unless you use one in your bedside lamp and the power blinks at 4am and it comes on @ 100% brightness because, unlike #Philips #Hue, you cannot change the “power on” behavior. Sooooo… today I went to #HomeDepot & bought a new Hue bulb to use instead and then promptly went into #HomeAssistant and set the bulb to be off when power is restored to it.
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