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Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 3, 2017 10:31

I am working on a tour video on the site.

Bounty!

Jan 3, 2017 00:38

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Q: How to detect the state of "dumb" entertainment equipment?

Scenario After the helpful answers to my last question I got myself a Harmony Hub and it works as I want it to. Basically, it remembers the state of the devices and uses infrared signals to fake the remotes and change to the configured settings when I activate a setup like Watch Fire TV or Watch...

smart-home

Aurora0001

Jan 2, 2017 20:15

Still, we don't care if you're avoiding your job by asking us questions as long as they're a good standard!

Aurora0001

Jan 2, 2017 19:25

The first point could be something like "Questions about networked consumer devices and their features" instead of "How to get IoT product X to do Y"

Sean Houlihane

Jan 2, 2017 19:14

@HenryWHHackv2.0 The device needs to be connected to other devices (or in parallel with other devices) in some way, this is the primary point rather than having an IP address. The connection could be by periodic wi-fi drive-by collection in a sufficiently rural scenario, but the devices would still be operating as a network of sensors.

Bence Kaulics

Jan 2, 2017 19:12

@HenryWHHackv2.0 Not generally, my laptop is internet connected but not necessarly IoT. Also excluding the internet from the possible networks is not the way either IMO.

Helmar

Jan 2, 2017 19:11

@goldilocks Doesn't have to be IP

Gilles

Jan 2, 2017 19:03

More generally, how specific does a question have to be to IoT to be on-topic?

Helmar

Jan 2, 2017 18:55

I can work with too broad/unclear or on-topic

Gilles

Jan 2, 2017 18:54

@Aurora0001 so you're reinventing the wheel?

Aurora0001

Jan 2, 2017 18:53

So perhaps it's best to allow well-formed ones after all, and just curate the answers to keep them valid

Helmar

Jan 2, 2017 18:47

Maybe we should focus on on-topic first

Aurora0001

Jan 2, 2017 18:44

But they suffer the issue of becoming outdated quickly

Gilles

Jan 2, 2017 18:31

@kenorb I'm worried that in a couple of years IoT will stop being a buzzword and this site will just be a bunch of unrelated topics with no cohesion. But I don't have a better name.

Helmar

Jan 2, 2017 18:30

I have no problem with changing consumers to power users

kenorb

Jan 2, 2017 18:25

I think the name of this site is fine.

Aurora0001

Jan 2, 2017 18:23

Off-topic questions: which questions seem to be off-topic for the site, and can safely be listed in the Help Center as off-topic?

Helmar

Jan 2, 2017 18:23

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A: Essential questions #4: site elevator pitch / tag line

Internet of Things is a Q&A site for consumers and developers of interconnected objects embedded with electronics to be sensed, monitored, and controlled remotely.

Aurora0001

Jan 2, 2017 18:21

Otherwise the experts think it's a consumer site and don't join

Ghanima

Jan 2, 2017 18:16

@Helmar right now I don't think we could exclude either group as a targeted audience

Aurora0001

Jan 2, 2017 18:15

@Helmar at the moment, "consumers and developers" is the way to go I think

Sean Houlihane

Jan 2, 2017 13:11

@Helmar, I think it would be good to add 'design considerations specific to a device being part of an IoT system', and in the off-topic a link to EE.SE - it would be good to capture hardware and software aspects.

Ghanima

Jan 2, 2017 11:57

@Helmar and by the way, I am not very old

Helmar

Jan 2, 2017 11:30

Maybe Yoichi wants to find some of questions as well?

Sean Houlihane

Jan 2, 2017 11:16

I think its important to avoid getting too distracted by their popularity though, they might only attract drive-by visitors, and are unlikely to do anything to help us retain the core of experts and competent enthusuiasts that the site needs to be effective. The Arduino SE is the one example I know where there are not enough interesting questions (from my perspective as an MCU designer, and non-arduino developer)

Bence Kaulics

Jan 1, 2017 20:48

Great job. I am happy to be above 10. :D

Aurora0001

Jan 1, 2017 19:06

Question number 30 is out!

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 1, 2017 14:41

Time to go MEGA MODE!

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 1, 2017 14:09

THIS IS NOT THE SPEECH: The speech is still in private beta.
Everyone get working don't be lazy and start participating now: Vote,ask a question or post an answer,do edits,do tag edit,flag,vote to close bad post,participate on our meta,do something start participating now!

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 1, 2017 13:42

I am going to write an IOT.SE public beta speech.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 1, 2017 13:34

@Aurora0001 At least I tried something. LOL! :D

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 1, 2017 12:21

I also did this one: LOL! :D

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 1, 2017 05:54

Internet of Things Stack Exchange Private Beta

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Henry WH Hack v2.0

Jan 1, 2017 04:29

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE PEOPLE OF STACK EXCHANGE! :)

Gilles

Jan 1, 2017 01:45

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A: Which place(s) are the first to cross into New Year?

You can see this in the Wikipedia list or on any map with the International Date Line. The first places to see a new day are: The Line Islands, more precisely the part that belongs to Kiribati (formerly known as the Gilbert Islands). The Line Islands are in the UTC+14 timezone, and the rest of ...

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Dec 31, 2016 16:27

I can't believe I retracted a valid flag on INFOSEC.SE. :(

Videonauth

Dec 31, 2016 16:11

dir auch

Helmar

Dec 31, 2016 16:08

Guten Rutsch :)

Ghanima

Dec 31, 2016 15:57

Happy new year, people, whenever you're ready ;)

Videonauth

Dec 31, 2016 15:00

So I wish everyone a nice transition into 2017 :) a hopefully better year!

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Dec 31, 2016 13:10

Dec 6 at 22:11, by Henry WH Hack v2.0

I2P is dead but Iot is here to stay Welcome to the IOT.SE site/chatroom! :)

Helmar

Dec 30, 2016 16:03

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A: Let's discuss the site scope in chat!

Preliminary, manual question category analysis I made a quick analysis of the questions on site so far. I grouped them into seven categories. Category descriptions follow below.1 Categories How to do X? (End User IoT Questions) Generally speaking, those questions include everything about re...

Helmar

Dec 30, 2016 14:54

@Aurora0001 Yeah, I'm in a train and my book ended an hour ago ;)

Ghanima

Dec 30, 2016 14:01

His Madnificence, Aurora, First of his Name, Lord of IoT, the Enlightened One, Protector of the chat.

anonymous2

Dec 30, 2016 12:22

@Aurora0001 United Statians.

Henry WH Hack v2.0

Dec 30, 2016 11:03

That's it!^

Ghanima

Dec 30, 2016 10:49

e.g. it hasn't even been awarded on RPi.SE though the site is up for four years

Ghanima

Dec 29, 2016 22:05

it means that people like the idea of having pro tems, but not the idea that any of us should be it ;)

Aurora0001

Dec 29, 2016 17:02

Well, sticks and stones may break my bones but downvotes ~~will never hurt me~~ will hurt me even more

Ghanima

Dec 29, 2016 16:51

good, then you don't have to check whether I photoshopped that or not :-D

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