One app to control them all, and in the brightness bind them
A react-powered PWA which allows BLE LED-strips control from Google Chrome
Lighty is a bicycle-fanatic's company aimed at promoting safety and fun amongst two-wheeled enthusiasts.
One of the products offered by Lighty is a Bluetooth remote-controlled LED strip, which uses a usually low-quality Adnroid / iOS app as a user-interface.
Lighty's very own Ophélie asked me if I could do better, so hackity hack, hack away!
I retro-engineered the (admittedly) simple communication protocol using Wireshark and my smartphone as a log source, used the native Web Bluetooth API to connect to the BLE device, and whisked everything together in a React app with a nice layer of TailwindCSS.
Voilà!
I also modeled and 3D-printed a Lighty-branded box for the BLE controller, as the original plastic one was boring and cumbersome. Just because I caould, right?
