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I have one WiFi bulb in my house near the entrance to my office. I turn it red to let my housemates know I have a meeting without leaving my chair.

This is about the only reason I could see for a WiFi light bulb. I could wire something but that’s a lot more work.

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It is more work, but imagine how cool you would feel with a big red button on your desk that you hit to turn the light on!

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Thousands of people found out during 2020!

(I’m sure there was a physical button one somewhere)

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With a Linux box and the lirc program, you can do it with a leftover number pad. Then you get … more than 10 buttons!

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Do you manually set the light bulb to red or do you have some kind of automation?

I tried to set up an automation with home assistant, because I use it for everything anyway.

But getting the information “You’re in a call” from microsoft is impossible, if you can’t create an “app” in order to get an api key, if the company sysadmin doesn’t want you to have it.

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Sadly I don’t have any automation for this. I just switch it to red with my phone.

Which is fine for me. Sometimes I have meetings where I’m not talking a lot and don’t have my camera on, so I don’t need to worry about interruptions.

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You can go from blue alert to red alert without changing the bulb.

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