App isn’t that good, so I hacked them – AppLights Review

I bought a lot these on sale after Christmas to use in my light show, but that won’t happen as they use a proprietary type of LED pixel. So I ended up putting them inside... but the app is awful!! I ended up reverse engineering the Bluetooth protocol and writing a program that runs on a Raspberry Pi to bridge the lights to SmartThings. Now I can control each string individually from WiFi (from anywhere in the world) and set timers (all of which you can’t do with this app)!
Review by jcommisso07 on AppLights.