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HEX (hexadecimal) for UDP socket (only UTF8 now) - wifi bulbs control as philips Hue

babapt versini shared this idea 10 years ago
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All new wifi bulbs from china are controled by UDP sockets in HEX but Zipabox can only send UDP sockets with UTF8 language for the moment.

Chinese bulbs that you could find under the brand Easybulb, MiLight, iBulb, LinkUP and Kepsun are all dimmable with led economic and ecologic. It is the best alternative to the expensive Philips HUE.


Control wifi bulb with scripts, is I think, one of the most important thing that a box must do.


A video to introduce these bulbs :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW4X6wN-SSw

Thank for you support.

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I think it is very easy to add Hexadecimal data in the upcoming firmware.

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I have the same bulb, nice !

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The easybulb is wonderful because it can be controlled using my iphone and ipad and plus it is only 6 Watts and can last for up to 25 years. I love these bulbs. I got mine at http://www.easybulb.com and even got 20% discount with their promo code.

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Henry Lords wrote:

The easybulb is wonderful because it can be controlled using my iphone and ipad and plus it is only 6 Watts and can last for up to 25 years. I love these bulbs. I got mine at http://www.easybulb.com and even got 20% discount with their promo code.
It is not an advertising area ! If you want to develop your business, you should help to develop bulbs control with the Zipabox.

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Vera by Micasaverde support MiLight/Easybulb/LimitlessLED lamps now perfectly.

http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=14471.0

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"It is not an advertising area !" :D

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Robert Salomons

Okay, i've got something working!


I've got 2 easybulbs, and their working. You have to send the ascii version of the command.


In the body, use these commands:


  1. "UU = ON Translates to hex 22 55 55
  2. !UU = OFF Translates to hex 21 55 55

It should be 22 00 55 and 21 00 55, but i cannot 'imitate' the 00 in hex.


Use this site to calculate what your hex command should be in ascii:

http://www.asciitohex.com/

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2+ years and still nothing, what a sad situation...

I have those bulbs and it is such a shame not being able to have the possibility to integrate them with the rest of my home automation system because I bet on Zipato ability to deliver and innovate in 2014.

No RGBW color picker, no ON/OFF switch for them, not even the possibly to send them a packet without manually converting control codes...

Why is this?

Those bulbs can be controlled through a documented UDP HEX based API (http://www.limitlessled.com/dev/), and we can't even use it straightforward because Zipato restrains use since 2+ years to UDP UTF-8 only.

Yes, we are in 2015, almost 2016... Such a sad situation. I'll definitely reconsider betting and buying a Zipabox should I imagined such a long "development cycle". This product has such a great potential, I don't understand...

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+1


Still waiting and hoping Zipato could integrate wifi bulbs with UDP in hex.

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I waiting too for buy these led bulbs.

Zipato dont move...

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"Zipato dont move..."

Zipato seems move but to devlop and debug more used "old and used in mass " protocols (433Mhz, Enocean , ... ). 3 years developping to catch 15 or 20 years technology is a good result... no?


meanwhile i find wifi protocol very interesting ... when a zipato WiFiextension ?....no?

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This would be great! I am controlling a Milight RGB-lamp with my Zipato, but i can't send all the commands (like half brightness). I was able to convert some commands like on/off by using the idea from above (hex to ascii), but if the Zipabox could do hexcodes directly would be much better.

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Hello Zipato Team!


This is really a little bit annoying that such a basic function does not work! Please let us send hex commands via udp!

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Yes. please add hex support to socket requests

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This topic is under consideration since more than 3 years now...

@Zipato dev team: some special escaped characters are already working - maybe not on purpose... - such as \t

=> do you need some help for UDP sockets to support \u encoding for instance?

I'm certainly not familiar with your code base but I'll consider all strings as they are today everywhere expect when encoding the UDP payload, where I would pay some extra attention to look for \u encoding to process it appropriately.

Including testing and documentation, this really should not take more than 4 hours of work.

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