Adam Conway @adamconway.ie - Bluesky Profile

I'm either just that good, or my code is just that bad 😎

23.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

tested gemini cli, it's going great i think

21.07.2025 12:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Review: The Switch 2 is the ultimate form of Nintendo's portable gaming vision It may be pricy, but the Nintendo Switch 2 does everything it can to justify its cost — here's our review

There it is! Almost 5k words with a lot of input from @adamconway.ie, and it's probably the longest review I've ever done. So much love has been put into this. Read it, share it - I'd really love to see this one be as successful as possible
www.xda-developers.com/nintendo-swi...

14.06.2025 13:18 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

my home lab adventures have culminated in me discovering that my speakers have an undocumented infra-red command that turns off one of the two speakers. and I can't turn it back on...

honestly, I'm not even mad, that's absolutely hilarious

07.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Since then, I've deployed my controller on a Milk-V Duo S, and in Home Assistant, I can use the rest_command integration to send requests locally, including integrating them into my automations!

Check out the XDA article for all of the details, including source code :D

16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was able to identify where the hex colour for the command to change the colour of the lights was, calculated the checksum, and I now had full control of the colour of the lights. The same process worked for brightness, ranging from 00 to FF. 6/7

16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Working out the rest was a bit of a chore, as the checksum at the end had me confused how it was calculated. Thankfully, other Govee reverse engineering projects had worked that out: it was just a simple XOR across the entire byte array! 5/7

16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I had data in here for changing colour, brightness, and toggling the power, and I was able to reply these back using a tool I wrote with Python and Bleak from my MacBook. 4/7

16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I connected to them with a Google Pixel 8 Pro with Bluetooth HCI logging, and I was able to see back and forth traffic between my phone and the lights as I controlled them 3/7

16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I reverse-engineered my Govee smart lights to integrate them into my smart home I was determined to get these lights working locally. Here's how I did it, and how you can learn to do it too.

Link to the article: xda-developers.com/reverse-engi...

Short-hand explanation: These lights can be controlled with an internet-based API in Home Assistant, but the API rate limits very quickly. The app lets you control them via Bluetooth LE 2/7

16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

wanted to share something I had a lot of fun working on for @xdasocial.bsky.social over the last few days!

TL;DR: I reverse-engineered some Govee H615B lights so I didn't have to deal with the app or the official API

#reverseengineering #hacking

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16.04.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

4 reasons CryptPad is the best privacy-focused alternative to Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets If you want a truly privacy-focused alternative to Google's suite of applications, you should try out CryptPad.

"4 reasons CryptPad is the best privacy-focused alternative to Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets"

Thank you @adamconway.ie

https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-cryptpad-best-privacy-focused-alternative-google/

26.03.2025 20:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

yeah this is really bad

16.04.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

christmas

25.12.2024 12:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0