
I went looking for a remote-controlled power switch (the wireless christmas kind, not the modern IoT kind) and didn't find it, but I did find this thing I bought just to figure out why it exists.
It's a timer outlet, but you program it from your phone... but it's not wireless.

probably because iphone dropped the headphone port and they had to get with the 21st century and make it bluetooth

I guess the thing saves settings when turned off, because you have to unplug it to push the reset button.
Specs: up to 10 amps for a resistive load, and up to 5 amps for a tungsten load.

That's putting some serious trust in your SEO, man

although it tries to sell me a bunch of unrelated movies first?

one of my favorite things to do is to look up the ratings on IoT apps... they're never good.

make calls, and access all your files.
and if you deny it, it just dumps you in the settings page to fix permissions, with no message.


We've got a CPU and two smaller chips. Probably one is some kind of communication chip, and the other is a flash chip for storing settings?

L isn't connected... I think that means there's a version of this that can control two outlets at once, not just one.

I do like that they keep all the high-voltage AC stuff separate from the low-voltage DC stuff.
Cheaper versions of this would have just had one PCB.


AND IT'S AN 8051! EVERYONE TAKE A DRINK

because it has a battery, yeah.

because it can tell it's not connected properly, in this emulator I'm using

it sounds like (NO PUN INTENDED) it has a protocol of simple tones that it plays at the device.

android historically has had a AudioManager.isWiredHeadsetOn api which tells you if the 3.5mm jack is connected.
So it may just be detecting there's no headphones plugged in to my emulator.


CT is "current time" as an integer of how many minutes it is into the day, and CD is the day of the week.

(it's using Monday = 001, and counting up from there)

uhhh. I'm not sure I'm awake enough to figure this out, but... it starts by padding up to a multiple of 8 bits.

then it converts that to a binary number, and pads it out (on the left this time) to 8 bits
if it is, it adds a 1?
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So I got out some CF cards and noticed something odd about this one. Do you see the weirdness?
How the fuck is a CF card "USB Enabled"?
So CF cards are a weird beast that act as either a PCMCIA card or an ATA/IDE card depending on a mode pin.
They're definitely not USB.
And it's not like that weird SanDisk card I have which you can fold in half and plug it in as a USB device.
It turns out the reason for "USB Enabled" is because it's a Lexar drive from the jumpSHOT era.
This is a normal CF card in most cases, you can use it in normal CF card readers and such

How the fuck is a CF card "USB Enabled"?

So CF cards are a weird beast that act as either a PCMCIA card or an ATA/IDE card depending on a mode pin.
They're definitely not USB.
And it's not like that weird SanDisk card I have which you can fold in half and plug it in as a USB device.
Flip it over, bend it in half, and now you can plug your SD card right into a USB port pic.twitter.com/jeBefP2xU1
— foone (@Foone) May 2, 2020
It turns out the reason for "USB Enabled" is because it's a Lexar drive from the jumpSHOT era.
This is a normal CF card in most cases, you can use it in normal CF card readers and such
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