GE Smart Light Bulb reset

It took a very long time to realise that this wasn't a bad parody.

If you were the engineer who implemented this, kill yourself. It's not a sin; you have no soul anyway.

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Clifford Heath
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Lol, cue the light bulb jokes. How many engineers does it take to reset a light bulb? None, they tell you to upgrade to the latest version.

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Paul Rubin

Someone should have told them that "How many X does it take to change a light bulb" is meant to be a joke, not an ambition.

Clifford Heath.

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Clifford Heath

I still have difficulties believing it is serious.... (watched about the first 2/3 in disbelief). That having read and having no reason to doubt your post....

What on Earth is a "reset" supposed to do to a bulb? Any good for a prankster working at the local electric company?...

Dimiter

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Dimiter_Popoff

Lol! That's actually very funny, the idea that someone would deliberately cut power in that pattern. Of course that is the exact reason why they mad e the reset procedure so complex, to prevent false triggering. The only th ing worse than having to do this procedure is to have your lights periodica lly return to their "dumb" state and be constantly on when a power glitch r eset them.

I had an outdoor floodlight that was also a motion detector. It had a simp le timeout where a flick of the switch on-off 1 sec-on would trigger the li ght to be on continuously. I can't tell you how many times I found the lig ht on. These are two extremes it would seem.

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Rick C

It makes it forget all paired devices, returning it to factory-new state. I guess you use it if you don't want a hacker extracting your WiFi credentials or something after you sell or dispose of it.

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Clifford Heath

Sell? There's a market for used light bulbs??? Amazing! Is it a market like the stock exchange? Can you buy futures? Light bulb futures! Very illuminating.

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Rick C

Sell? Probably when someone realises there are simpler and cheaper ways of achieving the same (small) benefit, and that care and maintenance of the damn thing is too difficult and/or time consuming.

Or when a company's servers have been turned off, it has become an expensive paperweight, and they are trying to offload it onto someone with even less clue.

Me biassed? Shure shome mishtake.

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Tom Gardner

In the Soviet Union, there used to be a market for BROKEN light bulbs.

They were sold as BROKEN at 10-20% of the price of a working light bulb. Anyone can figure out, why people would buy them?

AP

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A.P. Richelieu

Reportedly, in order to obtain a working light bulb, you had to present the one that was to be replaced.

Having been through the Iron Curtain 6 times as a kid (only E. Germany/Berlin), there is some credibility to that notion.

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Tom Gardner

Almost. That would work in the office.

If you needed a bulb for the home, it was a little more complex. You bought a broken lamp at the market, then went to the office and replaced a working bulb with the newly bought broken bulb. You could then bring the working bulb home. After that, you told the janitor that the bulb in the office was broken. He replaced the broken bulb with a working bulb, and then went on to sell the broken bulb at the market, LOL. Everybody wins!

AP

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A.P. Richelieu

The New York Subway and some other public places in the US used bulbs with left handed threads, so they wouldn't fit in normal fixtures. People who stole the bulbs discovered this, and didn't bother stealing any more of them.

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Paul Rubin

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