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How did you go about even initiating that?

This video about reseting a GE bulb shows how you reset a device with "one" button. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo

I feel like this video is an excellent example of why “dogfooding” can be so important. I’d bet that back at GE, the engineers had a programmable power supply, or some micro that automated this reset process. I’d also bet that on paper, the reset process looks pretty straightforward.

I’d love to have been in the room when they realized they needed to make a public facing video.

Parent was asking about lights from Phillips. The software update for that is initiated by the Phillips app one presumably has installed on their phone.

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