Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight

Re:Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:13AM (#19282029)

I see this is controllable via an app. Does it communicate via the "cloud" or locally? (Bluetooth etc).

If it is cloud-based, what happens when the service inevitably shuts down?

Edit: Upon further reading it appears that this device has BLE. That's reassuring, at least.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight by djsumdog on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:34AM (#19282338)

I'd personally wait until they're $20 used on eBay, then attempt to reverse-enginner the protocol so it can be controlled by Python and a Linux box.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight by Shakahs on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:46PM (#19286707)

Thank you, because I assume the last step would be open sourcing it. People like you are what keep hardware going long after the original vendor abandons it or goes under.

Also, I agree on waiting for eBay, this is a nice device but I can't justify $99 for it.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight by tmincey on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:27AM (#19282231)

It uses BLE, doesn’t have WiFi hardware for direct connection but can piggyback off the phone for firmware updates etc

[ Parent | on HN ]