I hacked my bedroom lights to talk to Google Fit. If I haven’t moved in 2 hours, it flashes angry red until I get up.
I love hacking around unnecessarily and love automating silly stuff around me. I recently got a Philips smart bulb. The bulb’s app didn’t allow custom integrations, so I dug into it and found it listens for UDP packets with raw JSON RGB commands.
So i wrote a tiny python script, and integrated it to talk to my google fitness. If I don’t move for 2 hours, it sends raw RGB commands over UDP to the bulb’s IP to make it glow angry red. Now my room literally tells me when to get up.
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