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What was the exact message about network switching?
 
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Tom said:
The best way (I found) is to ignore the app. Connect your phone directly to the bulb's wifi. Then start the app, let it do what it wants, and then let it connect to your home wifi network. Once that's done, you should have a bulb you can do things with.
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Yep - that would be my advice; connect straight to the bulb's wifi. Same with the firmware update, I did it from my PC, much more stable.

Agree with you on the product experience, I was rather disappointed with them at first but the application and firmware are hugely improved. If you're finding it flakey now, can you imagine what it was like over a year ago? Laggy app, terrible Andorid app, lights showing on when they were off (and vice versa), laggy bulb response. I was close to returning mine but I stuck it out. Glad it's what it is today.
 
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Scouse said:
What was the exact message about network switching?
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Something about disabling automatic network switching or disconnecting from networks with poor signal. It took me to the wifi settings page, where nothing of the sort exists.
 
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Colours are quite nice. I've currently got it cycling through the "pastels" scene.

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Big G said:
How's it going so far with them? Thoughts?
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ok, I only have one at the moment (there's a new one out that's smaller but it isn't yet in the UK). The software is the only issue. There's a windows 10 app which is ok, but it won't remember any of my preferences. The Android app has a widget which doesn't know if the windows app has turned the bulb on or off. But the most annoying thing is that when I use the Android app to set an effect, a notification plonks itself in my notification bar telling me about the effect. The only way to dismiss it is to turn the effect off. It really boils my piss - it's my fucking phone, I should be able to remove things like that. Apps that take control really annoy me.

I'm buying more though, I can live with the software issues.
 
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I'd quite like a PC with a CPU in it that doesn't hit over 100 degrees C when I'm trying to rip a DVD......
 
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Bodhi said:
I'd quite like a PC with a CPU in it that doesn't hit over 100 degrees C when I'm trying to rip a DVD......
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The hell piece of crap computer do you have? Mine never goes over 50C even at 100% load.
 
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It's an AMD :( It's an old Phenom X2 550 Black Edition, and I suspect the 5 year old Arctic Silver might need replaced.
 
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My guess is your thermal paste has dried out/cracked and you need a clean/replace.

Also probably need to clean your fans and heatsink out ;)
 
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ECA said:
My guess is your thermal paste has dried out/cracked and you need a clean/replace.

Also probably need to clean your fans and heatsink out ;)
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Aye its full of jock skin/weed dust/undisclosed powder and haggis.

:eek:
 
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Big G said:
Here's the thing, we can't be far away from a 360 degree 3D camera that you can view via an Oculus headset allowing you to look around in real time. How fucking great will that be?
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Like......looking with your actual eyes but with worse graphics?
 
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Trem said:
Like......looking with your actual eyes but with worse graphics?
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As in fully emmerisve VR experiences for things that most people will never be able to do such as a drone flying over Mt Everest, or flying through the Grand Canyon, perhaps a skier doing an off-piste run in the Alps.

So no, nothing like looking with you actual eyes :p
 
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As in fully emmerisve VR experiences for things that most people will never be able to do such as a drone flying over Mt Everest, or flying through the Grand Canyon, perhaps a skier doing an off-piste run in the Alps.

So no, nothing like looking with you actual eyes :p
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Hmm I don't feel it mate. I have not got excited by any of it at all. I'm getting/gotten old :(

It just feels so 80's if that makes sense, like it's old news and I don't know why. I'm more impressed with the pictures you take and your kit than I am with this.
 
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Superb - I remember the first lot of LCDs and paying about £400 back in 2003 for something like a 15". There will come a time when OLED 4K monitors and TVs will be very affordable.
 
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But then there will be something else that will have us drooling. :(
 
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It seems displays/headsets are going to be what drives graphics card tech forward for the time being, games certainly aren't.
 
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Big G said:
Here's the thing, we can't be far away from a 360 degree 3D camera that you can view via an Oculus headset allowing you to look around in real time. How fucking great will that be?
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Already there (sans 3D) but it's expensive and for professional use only:

https://ozo.nokia.com/
 
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ECA said:
My guess is your thermal paste has dried out/cracked and you need a clean/replace.

Also probably need to clean your fans and heatsink out ;)
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Pretty good guess :)

Cleaned half a carpet out of the heatsink, cleaned off the old cracked paste and applied new. Now running at 49 degrees on full load - much better.

Added bonus was that I used aftershave to clean off the old paste, now my PC smells fabulous darling.
 
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As a lot of you seem to know about smart bulbs...anyone with any experience of smart led strips? Thinking about getting them in our new kitchen; I've specced a slot for them in an undercut at the bottom of the new island and units but I don't really know much about them otherwise; or even what's the best way to control them (we are getting a Nest though).
 
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If you're going to those lengths then personally, if I were you, I'd get them wired to your local light switch using twin and earth, with their own supply, and do the "smart" thing from the lightswitch. That way, you're not tied into any one system, and if the smart bit fails (or you want to change systems), you can just control them directly from the mains.
 
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