Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

https://disconnect.blog/a-tech-critics-guide-to-holiday-gift-giving/

#tech #christmas #blackfriday #gifts #giftguide #holidays #alexa #generativeai #meta #ring

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.

When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

https://disconnect.blog/a-tech-critics-guide-to-holiday-gift-giving/

#tech #christmas #blackfriday #gifts #giftguide #holidays #alexa #generativeai #meta #ring

Reddit posts with others having the same problem here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/comments/1kzw3nh/tradfriphilips_hue_hardware_incompatibility/

And here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tradfri/s/3mOJATMxtM

Seems to have been going on for a couple of years, now. I bought my initial batch of Tradfri GU10s to go with my existing Hue kit about 6 years ago, and they’ve only just started failing (as have the second hand Hue lamps I bought before that).

#ikea #tradfri #zigbee#Hue#Alexa#homeAssistant

I read a forum post that suggested the overnight automatic firmware update from the Hue hub may be the problem, but disabling this hasn’t improved matters at all.

I’m desperate for a solution, as this has effectively broken my smart lighting setup. I can’t afford to replace all the Tradfri bulbs with Hue, but am considering ditching the Hue hub and the last few Hue bulbs I have (unless they can be connected to a Tradfri hub?)

#ikea #tradfri #zigbee#Hue#Alexa#homeAssistant