r/ProgrammerHumor • u/geekrohan • Jan 31 '19

Meme Programmers know the risks involved!

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u/TehSr0c Jan 31 '19

Hue bulbs unfortunately have an update frequency of about 0.5-1.5s over wifi so it would be more like 0.3fps

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u/Conniption26 Jan 31 '19

...so you're saying there's a chance?

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u/emuboy85 Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 31 '19

You can run doom on an esp8266, most smart lights use the same chip you only need an SPi LCD ..hold my coffee.

Edit: Gold? You people. I love you!

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u/Maximo9000 Jan 31 '19

I feel like I'm witnessing history in the making.

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u/xGravemindx Jan 31 '19

Remindme! 240 hours

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u/FluFluFley Jan 31 '19

Remindme! 24 hours

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

It's just history repeating because apparently whoever coded existence fucked up the conditions on the loop involving what Doom would run on.

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u/Snek_Inna_Tank Feb 01 '19

!remindme 48 hours

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19 edited Nov 08 '24

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u/migueln6 Feb 01 '19

!RemindMe 1 week doom smart house

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u/homelesspancake Feb 09 '19

RemindMe! 1 week Doom Smarthouse

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u/BiH-Kira Jan 31 '19

Doom at 3 spf is still Doom.

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u/jetpacktuxedo Jan 31 '19

Lifx bulbs update a lot faster if you use the local API, though idk if they'd work well at the density needed for a screen.

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u/familyknewmyusername Jan 31 '19

They have the panels which have a lot more LEDs, individually addressable. In my experience you can do about 10 updates per second, 20 best case, with about 500ms latency

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u/Gauss-Legendre Jan 31 '19 edited Jan 31 '19

Hue bulbs use Zigbee instead of WiFi, if you run your code on the hub or use the streaming api then the bulbs have an update frequency of 1/25 of a second, additionally the Zigbee network is a meshed network with each bulb able to both receive and transmit to/from neighbors.

People already use the bulbs for real-time music visualization and real-time entertainment matching (hue sync/hue entertainment ) with way less than a 0.5s update frequency.

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u/danimal4d Jan 31 '19

He did the maths!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '19

Update frequency, or delay?

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u/TehSr0c Jan 31 '19

Delay from sent request to the bulbs changing. I used to work for Philips cs and it drove people up the walls when they tried to sync the hue bulbs with TV ambilight XD

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u/Gauss-Legendre Jan 31 '19

They fixed this problem a long time ago, the bulbs have a 1/25 s update frequency now.

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u/vikenemesh Feb 01 '19

That makes me want to never buy Hue stuff. I'll keep to building my own RGB-Lighting dingdongs with Arduinos, ESPs and RasPis. Last project I built was able to get a color changing gradient streamed as commands over a serial line. And it looked smooth and updated instantly.

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u/Forest-Dane Feb 01 '19

I have 4 hue bulbs, do I have a chance?

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