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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A modern standard for indoor lighting receptacles.

It’s silly that we ship a driver and circuit board packed into the lightbulb just to make it compatible with screw bulb receptacles. We should have a new socket that accepts efficient lightbulbs and that can reuse or modularize driver electronics. Instead, the market has gone for full integration at the expense of the consumer.

If you build a new home these days, you get the lightbulb and fixture integrated together. This necessitates replacing the entire assembly when it fails, and when you have to do this eventually you’re going to have mismatched indoor lighting unless you had the foresight to buy extra units.

We need a new lightbulb socket standard, but for modern lighting.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

And it must not connect to wifi or the internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Having some kind of control signal available over wire would be nice, though. So the only way to dim lights wasn't to turn them on and off again a hundred times a second. That would also enable timers and automatic lights for those who want them. Without clouds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love telling my phone to turn off my lights in bed, or changing the color of my lights with a simple command. It’s super handy and I’m never going back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Have you not heard of Home Assistant?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Those electronics are frequently for converting AC to DC and/or regulating the LEDs off current, or for built-in features like zwave, color changing, etc.

Assuming you are mostly interested in getting rid of the AC conversion stuffz are you suggesting adding DC light outlets in each room? Where would you cconvert from mains?

Personally, I'd like to convert pretty much all of my lighting to 12v or 24v DC, but want to make sure I understand what you had in mind.